And I'm guessing you didn't like Wordsworth from the lack of reply?
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Eh? Lack of reply?
Don't worry! I posted a poem to try to win you over is all.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 26 2009, 1:11 AM BSTRead some Larkin! Or Wordsworth's "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge" is beautiful.
Earth has not anything to show more fair:
Dull would he be of soul who could pass by
A sight so touching in its majesty:
This city now doth, like a garment wear
The beauty of the morning; silent, bare,
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Open unto the fields and to the sky,
All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.
Never did the sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;
Ne'er saw I, never felt a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!
S'alright. The wording's confusing though. And the line breaks are terribly awkward and fragmenting. Just write a short paragraph.
The wording is confusing because the poem is old, well, old-ish, and so it's somewhat obligatory; and it's only in enjambement! You'd die with stops in the middles of lines, or Chaucer, so fair enough. I do think poetry gets a bad depiction.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ June 26 2009, 12:10 PM BSTenjambement!
Exsqueeze me?
But what's the use of that enjambement? The thing doesn't rhyme, so it's not been broken up to aid in scanning. It's certainly not been done for readability. I can only assume that it's just because he could.
Liiike...
My name is Robyn, and
I am 17 years old, living
In London.
...rather than...
My name is Robyn.
I am 17 years old.
I live in London.
The sentences flow on through the lines, rather than having full stops at the end of each line.
Quote: Aaron @ June 26 2009, 12:13 PM BSTBut what's the use of that enjambement? The thing doesn't rhyme, so it's not been broken up to aid in scanning. It's certainly not been done for readability. I can only assume that it's just because he could.
It'd be too nursery rhyme-esque if it rhymed, because it conveys things as being simple and perfect; where as the whole point is that it's quite uncomfortable for the industrial to be seen as so idyllic. I mean, he obviously wrote "Daffodils", so to be using similar sentiment and imagery when looking at The Big Smog is always going to seem a little strange, and this is reflected in the structure.
To a poetry know-nothing that just makes it harder to read.
That's the problem I think a lot of people have with poetry. It feels like a lot of it's written by poets for other poets. To show off about how clever they can be. You can feel a bit excluded.
I don't see my self as a know-something really though, but I can see your point totally. It's often a case of making something up to fit, as demonstrated by me above. 
He, you know loooads.
Maybe you can be the poet to bring it to the masses.
There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But there ever so small
That's why the rain is thin.
Quote: zooo @ June 26 2009, 12:29 PM BSTHe, you know loooads.
Maybe you can be the poet to bring it to the masses.
I wish. 
!
You cannn!
See, Stott's er, trying to help...
Robyn just did some writing, and is already little nervous for giving blood again, though she should know the procedure now and so be fine.