• queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    30 days ago

    Maybe.
    I sometimes use line breaks as thought
    train hiccups, especially in more prosaic poetry. It’s
    a tiny little anomaly, like an invisible mini-comma, that
    enforces a pause between one word and the
    next. Is that how this author is intending them?
    I don’t know.

    I think sometimes authors use them to seem
    more poetical
    without a clear idea of what it means to be
    more poetical.
    But I also don’t know myself, so I try
    to assume it’s intentional and specific and analyze from there.
    But conclusions about poetry are difficult for me to reach.