The Wild Wind

[LorettaYoung]

Elajam: thank you so much for all of your time and thoughts. I must have more time than now to study this; and the site on form. I will say though that can be a positive and negative result from riding the wild wind; and groan was one place I saw it. I am intent on having a verse relating to romance; when I think imaginatively, the wind mellows as it crosses the sill, it's not meant to be a bother but to bring the new, the wild. Why is it wrong to have inverted sentence; i see them all the time in poetry, and there is something i seem to like about it; do you think it sounds bad or is just bad poetry form? I will study more; consider everything said; am in deep gratitude for all this input. Loretta

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The link to death is that you will reap your choices in the end, it questions what one want to put into their lives. Loretta

You will find inversions in Victorian era poetry for a number of reasons including a diction that is considered quite quaint and archaic today. IOW, at the time, the speech was quite natural but reading inverted sentences today reads rather awkward and is almost always a sure sign of an amateur writer.

If you believe your poetry is somehow improved by backwards writing the sentences or if trying to achieve a specific effect you are then continue it you should but carefully think about it first you should as the overall effect amateurish or clownish it might seem to the reader.

Were not the moonwalkers enlightened by the wild wind. Loretta