This form is called the “great democratizer of poetic speech” in “The Rhapsodic Fallacy,” a Mary Kinzie essay that helped kick off a movement opposed to it. For 10 points each:
[10e] What poetic style was eschewed by the New Formalists? Robert Frost supposedly compared it to “playing tennis without a net” since it features non-metrical, non-rhyming lines.
ANSWER: free verse [or verse libre]
[10m] Annie Finch, who wrote about the “metrical code” of free verse, collected formalist poetry by women in a book titled for this sort of thing. An Emily Dickinson poem notes how “after great pain,” a “formal” one of these things comes.
ANSWER: formal feelings [accept “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –” or A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women]
[10h] This lecture compares the author’s youthful formalism to “asbestos gloves” that let her handle materials she “couldn’t pick up barehanded.” This lecture casts “seeing with fresh eyes” as an “act of survival” for women poets.
ANSWER: “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision” [or “Writing as Re-Vision”] (by Adrienne Rich)
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