My Style

[Wisemon]

Give me a writer, and I will show you a poet.

Some novelists are anti-poets. Jane Austen is a good example of this, and no offense to other British writers here , but she's part of the reason why so many British novels have been so poorly written for quite some time now. All of those frilly books are just horrible. At the same time, war books with nothing but descriptions of armor, vehicles, and landscapes are equally painful to read. Stories need to have depth in plots, themes, metaphors, symbols, allusions, and foreshadowing. A good story uses elements of poetry, including euphonic techniques, if need be.

There's a reason why poets were held in higher regard than novelists in the old days. It takes a lot more skill to write a poem than a novel. It's harder to choose the most important words.

I'm a poet first. All writers should aspire to be poets first, but the majority do not. The majority of poets nowadays aren't even poets, but that's a rant for another time.