Petit, the Poet Literature and Writing Quotes

"Iambics" is our first clue that we're wading into a poem about… poetry. This is an interesting figure of speech, suggesting that the outside world has the ability to breathe life into poetry and wake it up. Sadly, Petit's poems stayed snoozing.

Check out our "Detailed Summary" for the skinny on what each of these poetry forms involves. For our purposes here, it's enough to point out that Petit has come to realize that all of these exotic and intricate forms of writing poetry add up to the same thing: bupkis, zip, zero, zilch, the big goose egg, the old stinky catfish (okay so we made that last one up). And form without content just isn't going to cut the mustard in the world of poetry.

Hey, aspiring poets: want to write boring, dry stuff that folks have read 1,000 times before? Well then, be sure to use snow and wilted roses to show the passing of time. And you get bonus points for using a wilted rose to also show the fading of love. Usually, you'd have to pay big bucks for top-notch writing advice on how to make really bad poetry. But this comes to us free of charge. Thanks, Petit.