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

[Guest_Jox_*]

Hi Lori,

I agree with being tight in poetry (limiting words, not being drunk!). I have to say, though that "nor" is a great word - it even sounds well for poetry. Another bug-bear of mine is people using "or" for negatives, when it should be "nor" - yes, I'm sure I do it, too - and that annoys me even more.

Conjuections or not, lots of small words are very bitty and (for me) wreck poetry. The real danger one is actually "the" - it would appear three times in every line if we allowed it.

Cheers, J.