People appreciate words differently. Sometimes I’ll hear a turn of phrase, just something someone says outside of any kind of artistic context, and it’ll just feel really pleasant. Maybe it’s the rhythm of the phrase, or the image it conjures up, or maybe it’ll have some sort of immediate underlying theme. Some things just sound poetic, by various criteria my brain doesn’t necessarily reveal to me, and if they sound poetic enough, they can be really, achingly beautiful.
Formal verse can often have a different appeal. It takes cleverness to express something in a constrained form, but from my experience in writing poetry, often that constraint helps promote good ideas to your attention when you’re writing it. Seeing something difficult done well is satisfying.
A combination of the two can be extremely pleasurable to read or write.
People appreciate words differently. Sometimes I’ll hear a turn of phrase, just something someone says outside of any kind of artistic context, and it’ll just feel really pleasant. Maybe it’s the rhythm of the phrase, or the image it conjures up, or maybe it’ll have some sort of immediate underlying theme. Some things just sound poetic, by various criteria my brain doesn’t necessarily reveal to me, and if they sound poetic enough, they can be really, achingly beautiful.
Formal verse can often have a different appeal. It takes cleverness to express something in a constrained form, but from my experience in writing poetry, often that constraint helps promote good ideas to your attention when you’re writing it. Seeing something difficult done well is satisfying.
A combination of the two can be extremely pleasurable to read or write.