Reading Response Week #3

Writing Poetry: Style

            I like Davidson’s idea of style being a process, something that develops with progression and a form of movement. By Hemingway saying that “what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardness in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made” I feel like he is accurately labeling an ugly process. I don’t feel like I’ve developed any pronounced kind of style in my writing and I feel like that because I still have hair. The thought of “going shopping” for a poet’s style has very accrued to me because I usually, rather desperately, try to avoid reading poetry. I guess for the sake of developing my own style I should probably start.   I can only imagine that it’s very rare for an ‘amateur’ writer to touch pen(cil) to paper for the first time and have a style like Gertrude Stein.