A poem or a story?

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  1. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Twas the night to ride, into the cold. As we try, we are told of the dangers. With the reply, "We fear only ourselves".

    So off through the night we rode. The cold of the night began to take affect. But, we pay no attention. After all we are the feared, with only the thought of ourselves.

    The snow around us was numbing to the touch, making our skin turn white and blue. But, this cold was like no other we had seen.

    We could see the wolves behind us, they could sense the smell of death. So, we began to hold our breathe, hoping for the best. We need a rest, for our legs began to stiffen.

    The wolves move in closer, and I yell to them "I will not succumb to a wolf, come to me and feel my blade." They began to back off, perhaps they knew i would have killed them, or where they waiting for me to weaken.

    These thoughts racing through my head, I'm becoming paranoid. We must keep moving i said to my friend, but he does not move. He lie stiff on the ground. What weakness, I must leave on my own. But, I cannot stand up, perhaps I shall wait for the wolves to collect my soul.


    Is this a poem or a story?

    I beleive it to be a poem. One with older styles of writing. But, people beleive it to be a story extract. I wrote this no doubt. But perhaps some of you can finally answer this for me. I do not want to know what you think of the poem. I want to know what you think it is.
     
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  3. draqon Banned Banned

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    Sounds to me like a poem...actually I listen to rap...this story if rapped, would sound pritty darn nice.
     
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  5. gendanken Ruler of All the Lands Valued Senior Member

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    Story.

    The smell of 'twas at its beginning is its poetic cologne and that's it.
    Plus, its short.

    That all of it?
     
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  7. draqon Banned Banned

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    Its not just any story, its a rap story...u know sorta like Eminem...crying out..."I will not succumb to a wolf...da wolf..."
     
  8. gendanken Ruler of All the Lands Valued Senior Member

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    I don't think its rap.

    The rap-mammal is usually a dawg, a bitch or a pig but never a wolf.
    I could be mistaken.
     
  9. draqon Banned Banned

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    see...now thats rAp EVolution my main man.
    Ricky Houy starring in ...

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  10. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Haha, well this is all of it. All there was meant to be of it.

    ehh, i guess you could say it has a rap flow.
     
  11. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Well, I think you should look at poems such as "The Code" By Robert Frost
    http://www.ketzle.com/frost/thecode.html I guess you could say it has simularities or not. Either way they both appear to be story extracts.
     
  12. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Lol, well. I find this to be something of a compliment.

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  13. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    i consider it a story
     
  14. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Robert Frost wrote some poems simular to storys. But they were considered poems because it didn't have the basics of a story. This poem does not meet the requirements to be a story though. I suppose it's simular. But I guess the only reason it wouldn't be considered a poem now a days because teenagers have tooken over the poetry world with a poem like. Well let me make one up. It is so simple I figure that this should never be considered a poetic style.

    "I wake at noon
    But the find my love
    she lay in the tub
    her roasy cheeks feel cold as winters breeze
    I feel a rush of panic through my heart down to my soul
    I take the razor blade and cut the pain from my chest
    A slice of the wrist and I lie cold as my love"

    I made that in a matter of seconds. But that is a poem...because it lacks the requirements of a story correct? I feel my story does not have falling action. So there for it cannot be a story.
     
  15. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    you asked for the posters opinion and i gave you what i thought to be an honest one
     
  16. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Lol, yea. But I'm in a state in which i refuse to think its a story. Sorry. Not trying to be too defensive.
     
  17. leopold Valued Senior Member

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    it's your story (poem) you have every right to defend it

    i always thought poems had words that sounded alike
     
  18. draqon Banned Banned

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    Its a poem allright...sort of like a long haiku...rap haiku....

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  19. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Leopold only some poems have to rhyme. And haikues are only 3 line poems
     
  20. draqon Banned Banned

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    ...I aint leopold
     
  21. RickyH Valued Senior Member

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    Yes, I know. But, I'm really tired and didn't feel like wrapping the quotes to your name seperate from Leopolds
     
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    Story.
    It sounds like a poem here and there, but not throughout.
     

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