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Introduction: Practice and Repetition: Rilke and Erasmus
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Practice and Repetition: Rilke and Erasmus. One thing that a poet probably knows by instinct but still hates hearing is that his poetry will never improve without practice. Well, let me pull the band-aid off with full force: you must. Practice. What is more, you must practice often. When Ranier Maria Rilke. Began his correspondence with Franz Kappus ( Letters to a Young Poet. He told the young poet:. Wanted to show us why Shakespeare felt the need ...
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Introduction: Organization: Northrop Frye
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. In determining an organizing principle for this project, I was reminded of Northrop Frye. S work in Anatomy of Criticism. In particular his essay on the Theory of Archetypes. To adoring the metaphysical poets. To only enjoying the work of one poet, say Dorothy Parker. They existed and were writing at the same time - big deal! Their poetry is worlds away from one another. The same could be said for Ezra Pound. I also don't believe who. A poet is sho...
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Chapter 1: Summer: Exercise Three: The Ghazal
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Exercise Three: The Ghazal. Is a form that allows you to be a little more adventurous with your ideas because it is a string of independent thoughts. It is composed of a series of couplets (between five and fifteen) and the first couplet establishes the only rhyme pattern for the poem. There is no set meter, but we can use the iambic pentameter for illustration purposes:. A - / - / - / - / - / (refrain). A - / - / - / - / - / (refrain). Some bo...
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Chapter 1: Summer: What is "Summer" Poetry?
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. What is "Summer" Poetry? And who could play it well enough. If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost,. For he gave all his heart and lost. From " Never Give All the Heart. It's true I can still see you. With the expert eye of having held you. To me, the Summer Poets are often preoccupied with the here and now; they are present. What I love about Lucille Clifton. To get the reader on...
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Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise Four: Madrigal and Canzone
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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise Four: Madrigal and Canzone. Both of these forms are closely related and both, in the simplest of terms, are "songs." The madrigal is, as defined by Lewis Turco. All end rhymes are same in each stanza. Count, use x to count a syllable - xxxxxxxxxxx). For accents, use dash (unstressed) and slash (stressed); remember, these songs do not count accent). Accent example: -/-/-/-/-/- iambic pattern. Consider your work. Try again. Do not edit. It is...
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Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise One: Modeling Billy Collins
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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise One: Modeling Billy Collins. This exercise is a variation of an exercise I did in a workshop with the slam poet, Taylor Mali. Used the following poem by Billy Collins. The other day as I was ricocheting slowly. Off the pale blue walls of this room,. Bouncing from typewriter to piano,. From bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,. I found myself in the L section of the dictionary. Where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. S Remembrance ...
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Introduction: Poetry Pedagogy: The Essay That Started It All
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Monday, May 17, 2010. Poetry Pedagogy: The Essay That Started It All. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine told me about the poet, Taylor Mali, making an appearance at a conference in Texas; he's a spoken word artist I really admire. I figured I simply had. Learn in those workshops and what did you actually have to learn on your own? You're probably not alone. Our students cannot "find their voice" unless they are shown how. Here's the original ...
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Chapter 1: Summer: Example Poetry (J.D. Isip)
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Example Poetry (J.D. Isip). On Watching My Dog Chase a Cat the Day I Put Him Down. I would like to be like you in my final hour. To let the old electric impulse spring. My tired carcass in one last show of power –. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? To let the old electric impulse spring. And flower the path towards fate –. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? And flower the path towards fate.
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Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise Five: Barbaric Yawp
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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise Five: Barbaric Yawp. I too am not a bit tamed - I too am untranslatable;. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. From " Song of Myself. The idea of the "barbaric yawp" is so linked to Walt Whitman that many folks often, wrongly, assume that Whitman's poetry was always. About creating this type of poem - a poem that spills over from line to line in a rush to catalog every last iteration of a thought. Read over the three poems ...
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Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise Two: Psalm and Kyrielle
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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise Two: Psalm and Kyrielle. Both of these forms come from the Judeo-Christian religious traditions. Both are direct prayers or pleas to God. The psalm originate at about 1010 BC, when King David. Would have been composing while he was on the run from King Saul. The book of Psalms in the Bible. Consist of 150 psalms and span many stories from the Old Testament. And all of the images of protection and covering listed in Psalm 91. Some psalms are...