What is Contemporary Poetry?
What is Contemporary Poetry? Cotemporary poets adapt the ancient forms of verse to create a revolutionary piece of verbal art. Authors are always trying new combinations of line length, interesting formats, and unique rhyming schemes to create these innovated poems. Thus, the evolution of contemporary poetry is never stagnant, it is always moving towards something new. Rhyme doesn’t seem to be part of contemporary poetry; however it’s only full rhymes that aren’t part of modern poems. Poets tend to shy away from them because ‘it can be both stale and predictable’ (Keane, pg. 2). They’re predictable because poets have used them for 1000’s of years. According to Ezra Pound rhymes ‘must have in it some slight element of surprise’; which half-rhymes do because the rhyme is unexpected. Half-rhymes create movement and joins the stanzas together. Syllabic is one type of half-rhyme. It’s ‘a rhyme in which the last syllable of each word sounds the same but does not nec