Definition of Poetic License

The poetry it's a art that does not go out of fashion as the verses of authors like Pablo Neruda show that continue to excite later generations. Around this discipline, a wide range of leisure activities arises: poetry recitals, contests for poets, presentations of authors' books, sale of poetry books in libraries and presence of poetry books in the libraries.

Poets share their writings after having invested talent, inspiration and work in the writing. And the thing is, poetry also understands technique as it shows the importance of poetic license. Is about resources of writing that are applied by the poet who applies a certain resource in a poem in order to maintain the number of syllables of said verse so as not to subtract musicality from the complete work.

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Licenses can also be your own creation Author that to margin of the grammatical rules, make an exception with a creative purpose. The truth is that in order to carry out poetic licenses, as well as for

to write poems with free verse, it is very important to be an experienced writer and not a novice since every license has a reason and is not the result of improvisation or ignorance.

There are different types of poetic license. The term sinalefa refers to the union of two words since the first word ends in a vowel and the second also begins with a vowel or with Therefore, the end of a word is linked to the beginning of another in a single stroke of voice (this union of words influences the metric of the verse).

On the contrary, as a poetic license, the dialeph can also be applied, which consists precisely in not making synalepha where it would correspond. In this way, the diphthong is broken, creating two syllables instead of just one.

Freedom in writing

The structure of a sonnet, for example, has a specific metric that the poet must respect in order to write his work while respecting its own characteristics. composition. However, writing is less corseted from the freedom provided by the poetic licenses they facilitate, precisely, that the poet can endow the writing with an adequate musicality that adjusts to the connotations of a composition.

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