My name is Dylan Pangborn and I am in my third year here at OSU-Marion. I am currently an English major though I spent my first two years without a major wandering aimlessly through classes. I am very interested in writing and history which of course leads to my writing specialty being more in the vein of academic writing over creative writing. My favorite author is by far Kurt Vonnegut. Over the past few months I have been working my way through the entirety of his works starting with "Slaughterhouse Five". It is Kurt Vonnegut who I look to for inspiration when I must write creatively because I find both his style of writing and his darkly humorous tone to make for very entertaining works.
The section of our readings in Four Genres In Brief is the section on the different types of rhymes. For most of my short time as a writer of poetry I have relied almost entirely perfect rhymes. Due to this reliance on perfect rhymes and often placing them at the ends of my lines, my poems featuring a rhyme scheme often felt very forced and just awkward. Now that I am aware of the ideas of slant rhyme, falling rhyme, and so on I can expand my horizons when it comes to writing rhyming poetry so that I don't always have to write terrible poems.
Dylan, you are prompting me to get out Vonnegut and start reading him again, as I remember I read S5 in Dresden when I was doing a summer study in Europe at age 27. It was surreal to read that book in that time and place, a few years after the wall came down. Thanks for getting hungry for a writer and I wish more people were like that!
ReplyDeleteHi Dylan, I agree Kurt Vonnegut is an amazing author. I especially love when writers can get darker themes across as seamlessly as he does. I can definitely relate to your college experience. My declared major was Japanese, but I was pretty much in the same boat. Just taking classes that I wanted to take. I'm glad we both ended up in English.
ReplyDeleteDylan, I also have struggled with feeling too rigid in the poems that I write. I really liked reading about the different forms that rhymes could take. My personal favorite were sight rhymes because I liked the idea of a poem being improved in flow as a written form, when usually it works the other way around.
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