Poetic Fashion Options

[Guest_Nina_*]

Fran has raised the question of use of adverbs being unfashionable a couple of times on threads  which I hope she doesn't mind me quoting.

Is there a single verb for 'tread eagerly' that would let you loose the adverb? I quite like adverbs (as does JKR, lol), but they are rather unfashionable these days

again, would 'loom' or similar enable you to loose 'tower menacingly' ?

Why is it unfashionable?

Why should one follow the trend and lose the adverbs simply because it is not the "cool" thing to do so?

Who dictates what is or isn't the "in" style?

I thought poetry was about originality, leading not following and personally I can't understand this point of view.

Discuss please.

Nina

[Cleo_Serapis]

And what is the problem with conjunctions, Lori? Because I'm not sure where we are going now and is this for poetry or for prose?  

Fran

Tee hee - oh Fran...
What I have started?  :speechless:

Poetry, not prose is my initial thought process here.

I've been taught to limit words in poetry when possible and part of that (for me) is to try not to use conjuctions.

In most cases, you can simply eliminate them and they are not missed.  :oops:  :upside:  :grinning:

Conjunctions I think of are:

"and," "but," "or," "nor," "for," "so," or "yet - these are generally used to JOIN individual words and phrases.

I had to look these up - I find these HARDER to leave out of poetry:
A subordinating conjunction introduces a dependent clause and indicates the nature of the relationship among the independent clause(s) and the dependent clause(s). The most common subordinating conjunctions are "after," "although," "as," "because," "before," "how," "if," "once," "since," "than," "that," "though," "till," "until," "when," "where," "whether," and "while." .

and lastly:
Correlative conjunctions always appear in pairs -- you use them to link equivalent sentence elements. The most common correlative conjunctions are "both...and," "either...or," "neither...nor,", "not only...but also," "so...as," and "whether...or."

Sometimes, ya just gotta use 'em!  :pirate:

Cheers!
Cleo  :medusa: