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Hey /lit/

I'm looking for poets that are technically tight in the traditional sense - rhyme and metre and so on - yet still avant garde, like Dylan Thomas and John Berryman.

Can you recommend any poets like this?

The pic and this link are what I'm thinking of:
http://www.internal.org/Dylan_Thomas/When_Like_a_Running_Grave

Also, poetry general I guess.

Was working on a sonnet today. I don't write all that much, but sometimes I choose the sonnet form.

I like the Petrarchan: abbaabba cdeedc. Something nice about the bigger octet weighing down on the smaller sestet. Sexy.

>>2707925
I like your thinking. That's probably my favourite form, though I only read and don't write.

Sonnet 2 by John Berryman

>>2378998
I've read some his stuff online and quite liked the bulk of it. I wish I knew what he meant by, "Are you radioactive, pal?" though. Care to enlighten me? I'm considering buying The Dream Songs.

I love the syntax in this sonnet.

>>2355861
There's not very much iambic pentameter for a sonnet. There are easy things you can do to complete it in places as well:
>If you say from water I am banned
>If you say that from water I am banned
It's okay to be loose - lines of 9 or 11 syllables etc, but I think you've pushed it too far. I guess if you wrote it in a few minutes though, that's expected to a degree. Moreover:
>alas
>2012

So yeah, not bad for a few minutes' work, but practise your meter and read more contemporary poetry and look at the vocabulary they use. Pic is sonnet by John Berryman.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKUSR-yOgpA