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My icebox plum trap easily captured William Carlos Williams. It took much less work than the infinite looping network of diverging paths I had to build in that yellow wood to ensnare Robert Frost.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3209/
Precisely!
Of course, saying anything can be poetry is like saying anything can be music - while it is true, tastes vary and not everything will seem like “good poetry” to everyone. And that’s ok!
I think people struggle with it because when you’re a little kid poetry is taught as having to rhyme and have a particular format. Then you get older and run into shit like this.
e e cummings [yes that is capitalized and punctuated properly] was a master of using lines and space.