What is the explanation for why poetry sounds good? Rhymes, meter, assonance; I don't understand why we find them pleasing. To be clear, I love poetry, but I find it hard to explain why I love it.
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Humans like rhythm because we can subtly feel the rhythm of our heart, and a consistent rhythm is proof an healthy heart.
Pulled this from my arse, by the way.
>Humans
Animals like music
well genius, animals also have heart beats
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Rythm, it is intrinsec (IMO) to language itself, whatever your language may be.
Rhymes, meter, all of that is merely a result of following the rythm, not the cause of rythm itself.
Rythm is not on the page, what is written on the page isn't poetry, just what it leaves behind, its echo. Poetic expression is presented through speech.
But even if rhythm is intrinsic to language, why do we like it so much?
Because our brain is hardwired to like patterns.
>we like it because it's natural
>we like it because it's not natural
Whom do I believe?
me
Maybe because it has a pattern that you can follow, which is an interesting exercise for the brain, and because it shows skill and thought in its creation.
Does it matter why? Stop trying to be a scientist and read Plutarch
gotta just be the fact that naturally occurring symbiosis of multiple notes and the flow of words is literally never present within nature, so when it flows and works well together its gotta impact some form of unknown area of the brain thats trying to understand whats happening
Rhyth appeals to the unconscious atemporal side of our brain. When rhyme and rhythm becomes too apparent its considered bad. The best poetry, like Prufrock, has a subtle rhyming scheme, sometimes using near-rhymes, which is one of my favorite techniques.
>When rhyme and rhythm becomes too apparent its considered bad.
Huh? I never encountered that opinion seriously. Please elaborate.
I've heard some poetry referred to as 'doggerel'; I'm not sure what exactly the defining criteria are but an overly simple, easy to follow rhyme scheme and meter seem to have something to do with it.
I've always hated poetry. Don't know why. Maybe it was the education system
rhythm is predictable, what is predictable is peaceful and brings peace, that is good to the animal brain that the homosexual sapiens have
i suppose rhythm and rhyme is just "nice" to the ear. like how music is enjoyable sound, and good music is enjoyable sounds put together in a good order.
aside the answer, what poetry do you gentlemen recommend? and why do poets draw so hard from myth in points? i quite dislike it. as much as i dislike free verse.
i'm looking for nice stuff like Dante, tbh.
>Why do they draw points from mythology
>Anyway I like Dante
Kys esl scum
i mean pagan shit like Shakespeare does at points.
also mean his style. terza rima is nice
that's quite clear!
rhythm and rhyme
cadence and time
it's nice to hear.