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lol, mission accomplished. It did indeed sound arty and the content was enlightening too. So, code without form isn't gonna be poetic code. Gotcha!
One thing I didn't disclose above is that I studied Creative Writing in university (my focus was fiction not poetry, but I had my fair share of classes on poetry) and something that I heard pretty regularly was that if you know the rules, you can break them. There were some pretty interesting pieces where someone would intentionally break the rules for different reasons — to make their work stand out OR because they felt it worked better OR maybe even to take a stand against rules that they felt were confining them. I remember learning about prose poetry at the same time I was learning about short, short stories (generally a page long) and I thought, ughhhh, this isn't poetry, this is just another short story, haha! In the end, I don't think it mattered to the writers — they just thought of it as writing.
Anyway, not sure where I'm going with this, besides just saying that I agree with you! I like that you included "intent" in your explanation because I think that is key to what I was saying in the paragraph above. If your intent is to break the form, and you have thoughtful reasons for breaking it the way in which you did, then you can still probably achieve something poetic.
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lol, mission accomplished. It did indeed sound arty and the content was enlightening too. So, code without form isn't gonna be poetic code. Gotcha!
One thing I didn't disclose above is that I studied Creative Writing in university (my focus was fiction not poetry, but I had my fair share of classes on poetry) and something that I heard pretty regularly was that if you know the rules, you can break them. There were some pretty interesting pieces where someone would intentionally break the rules for different reasons — to make their work stand out OR because they felt it worked better OR maybe even to take a stand against rules that they felt were confining them. I remember learning about prose poetry at the same time I was learning about short, short stories (generally a page long) and I thought, ughhhh, this isn't poetry, this is just another short story, haha! In the end, I don't think it mattered to the writers — they just thought of it as writing.
Anyway, not sure where I'm going with this, besides just saying that I agree with you! I like that you included "intent" in your explanation because I think that is key to what I was saying in the paragraph above. If your intent is to break the form, and you have thoughtful reasons for breaking it the way in which you did, then you can still probably achieve something poetic.