inversions in poetry

[billy]

I would love to see a single example to back up this claim. i could provide 100 that show the opposite on this forum alone but if you could just provide a single example of inversion used effectively in the last 100 years i would love to read it.

Well, before I refer you to the stanzas from my poem Youth again, I think we need to establish whether it is an inversion to put an adjective after a noun. It's correct to put adverbs after verbs, but I think (though I may be wrong) that it is generally considered incorrect to put an adjective after a noun.

In the stanzas I quoted above, I wrote "Of youth's trail vanishing". The person who critiqued it suggested that I make that "Of youth's vanishing trail". But again, perhaps that isn't the best example. I'm tempted to post a poem I recently finished in which I invert a verb and subject, a poem which contains those lines above that Billy called "gibberish". (They aren't gibberish when you read the whole poem.) Of course, you may not want to have to read a poem of mine in order to get my point, and you might disagree anyway. I'll look for such an instance in a famous poem and post it here.

It all comes down to personal preference. Your preference doesn't prove your point, and my preference doesn't prove my point.

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What the hell. I went ahead and posted my poem My Heat in the Mild Critique section. There is a subject/verb inversion in the third stanza.

stop it with your poetry, this is a discussion not a showcase. and i'm allowed to think those lines are gibberish, as you put them up they stood, i'm not physic. use someone elses poetry. have a look through the site and post a few inverted lines. better yet post so inverted lines from a well known poet.

i'm sorry sorry sorry but i just see most of the argument for inversion as out and out bullshit. i see people calling it a poetic device, i see people saying think "if the consensus of people say inversion is wrong ...sis it really wrong" well yes that what everyone except those who use it agree on. they agree that it's shite poetry. and in all honest i'd never use one my my poems to prove a point about poetry apart from showing it as an example of shite poetry. you put a piece of poetry of yours up calab and your putting it up for discussion. it would not bode too well. i've read a few of yours and i can't say i'd use them as examples of good poetry [you brought it up, i'm just replying to you]

if you invert the odds are your poetry will not be of a good quality. inversion is not a poetic device it is an aberration for which poets who use it should be flayed. you will not brain wash me abu