Free verse is one style of writing poetry and it became more popular as the poetry developed from one period to another. It is a style that is not governed by rules and does not have a lot of boundaries. Moreover, a poet can write his/her poem with an irregular rhythm, without an obvious meter in the lines, and with a great freedom to the ,awareness of rhyme.
The poems used in this week’s collection seemed like they were some sort of lyrics that singers use in their songs, especially those which tell stories. Moreover, the poets used their personal experiences and turned them into lines that created poems and not just ornamental ancestors and maybe the free verse used in them made them look like written narratives, but the use of images, language, and themes relate them to poems. For example, In his poem "This Be the Verse", Philip Larkin talked about how his life went wrong and blamed it on his parents. Furthermore, he created a theme for his poem to show how angry he was and how he was treated made him a mad man. Hence, poem’s flow started with anger at the beginning and started to cool down in the last stanza with a piece of advice for people.
Another example is John Berryman’s Dream Song number two. In this poem he used a metaphor in the beginning of it to relate his position to someone who is out in the cold when he said “A final sense of being right out in the cold”.
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