poetandknowit6 Dec 2002

I would not call free verse revolutionary. It was a natural progression from the narrative structure and when it finally came about as a more comfortable mode of poetry the world of art was ensconced in so many wild changes the it slipped right in. I'd say free verse opened up more specifics in content, which allowed subjects to be openly dealt with and easier for the common reader to understand, and this might have had a revolutionary effect as bringing poetry to the peasant, but again the nature of the form was already coming around.