Most of the above comments go to the substance of "organic" form, and I largely agree. But I wanted to add that Tom Kirby-Smith has some interesting, useful, and amusing things to say about "organic" poetry in his book [i]The Origins of Free Verse[i], in particular in Chapter 2, "The Problems of Organic Form." His argument, in a nutshell, is that the problem arises out of following the thread that if God breathes through the soul into the poet, and therefore into the poetry (and he argues that 19th C American poetry and religion were pretty intertwined on this), then poetry is created independent of individual will. And yet, paradoxically, organicism hangs on because of the American cult of the individual, probably because of how organic poetry evolved in the 20th C, cf Levertov et al.
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