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Chapter 2: Autumn: Exercise Three: Elegy and Sapphic Stanza

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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Exercise Three: Elegy and Sapphic Stanza. S well-known elegy illustrates the final two stages, combining praise with a determination to use verse to make the subject live on:. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;. Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile. The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,. 8221; Thomas Gray. For this ex...

Chapter 2: Autumn: What is "Autumn" Poetry?

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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. What is "Autumn" Poetry? The time you won your town the race. We chaired you through the market-place;. Man and boy stood cheering by,. And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come,. Shoulder-high, we bring you home,. And set you at your threshold down,. Townsman of a stiller town. From " To An Athlete Dying Young,. Three foggy mornings and one rainy day. Will rot the best birch fence a man can build'.

Chapter 2: Autumn: Exercise Four: The Ode

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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Exercise Four: The Ode. There are several different types of odes. Which poets have created over the years - among the most famous are the Pindaric Ode. And, perhaps the most famous, the Keatsian Ode (also called the English Ode). For this exercise, you will be working at a simple exploration of an idea rather than working within a specified form. However, if you like to work in form (or would like to try it), here is the model for the Keatsian Ode:. Be creativ...

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...

Chapter 2: Autumn: Exercise One: Satirics

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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Satire has been around about as along as poetry itself. Satiric poetry. Broadly defined, is using verse to "hold up a mirror" to someone or something to show him/her/it a shortcoming, an evil, a folly, a blemish. One way to do this is using humor, as the poets Alexander Pope. Alexander Pope wrote a long poem called " The Dunciad. Which is a critique of one of his contemporary critics, Lewis Theobald. Thy hand great Dulness! Is why you're repulsive" (like Steven...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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Seasons: A Poetry Handbook

Seasons: A Poetry Handbook. A resource for poets looking for practical examples of poetic forms, poetry exercises, and an extensive listing of example poets and some of their works. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. The Point Is - You Should Be Writing. Four seasons fill the measure of the year;. Four seasons are there in the mind of man. He hath his lusty spring, when fancy clear. Takes in all beauty with an easy span:. He hath his summer, when luxuriously. He chews the honied cud of fair spring thoughts,.

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Chapter 2: Autumn

Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. What is "Autumn" Poetry? The time you won your town the race. We chaired you through the market-place;. Man and boy stood cheering by,. And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come,. Shoulder-high, we bring you home,. And set you at your threshold down,. Townsman of a stiller town. From " To An Athlete Dying Young,. Three foggy mornings and one rainy day. Will rot the best birch fence a man can build'.

Introduction

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 ...

Chapter 4: Spring

Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Thursday, October 21, 2010. What is Spring Poetry? When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers,. The moon and the stars, which You have ordained;. What is man that You take thought of him,. And the son of man that You care for him? Sometimes a poet will simply report on nature - catalog a moment of beauty (i.e. Whitman's " The Dalliance of the Eagles. Or James Wright's " A Blessing. To pass on the image and the feeling, they have. His han...