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Chapter 3: Winter: Exercise One: Allusion and Irony
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Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. Exercise One: Allusion and Irony. Allusion and Irony are kind of like the sugar in your poetry kitchen; nifty stuff to have around, just the right amount makes everything sweeter. Too much and things become cloying. Is a casual reference to something we are assuming our reader will know. For example, the current Twilight. When we re-appropriate a phrase, we are also making an allusion. If I say, " to fail or not to fail, that is the question. My name, my ...
Chapter 3: Winter: Exercise Three: Modeling Emily Dickinson
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Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. Exercise Three: Modeling Emily Dickinson. I admit it - it was very, very hard for me to warm up to Emily Dickinson. S poetry. In retrospect, I am pretty sure my litmus test for a poem was length of the line - any good. Poem had to have long lines, be completely involved, and maybe even have chapters. Think Homer. S The Song of Hiawatha. S Idylls of the King. And you have an idea of the kind of stuff I used to consider real. I felt a Funeral in my Brain.
Chapter 3: Winter: What is "Winter" Poetry?
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Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. Friday, October 1, 2010. What is "Winter" Poetry? Let's see how a few of the Winter Poets find a way to carve out new imagery and language in the categories of this season. Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;. My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years thou'wert lent to me, and I thee pay,. Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now! Will man lament the state he should envy? On My First Son. Of the diffi...
Chapter 3: Winter: Exercise Two: The Sestina
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Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. Exercise Two: The Sestina. September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother. Sits in the kitchen with the child. Beside the Little Marvel Stove,. Reading the jokes from the almanac,. Laughing and talking to hide her tears. She thinks that her equinoctial tears. And the rain that beats on the roof of the house. Were both foretold by the almanac,. But only known to a grandmother. The iron kettle sings on the stove. The grandmothe...
Chapter 3: Winter: Exercise Four: Personification
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Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. S " The Vine. I dream’d this mortal part of mine. Was Metamorphoz'd to a Vine;. Which crawling one and every way,. Enthrall'd my dainty Lucia. Me thought, her long small legs and thighs. I with my Tendrils. Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste. By my soft Nerv'lits. About her head I writhing hung,. And with rich clusters (hid among. The leaves) her temples I behung:. So that my Lucia seem'd to me. Ravished by his tree. My curles about her neck did craule,.
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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...
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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'.
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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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Introduction: Modeling: Eliot and Bloom
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Modeling: Eliot and Bloom. Modeling, simply put, is taking the work of another poet and attempting to emulate that poet. What we are trying to do is figure out the thought patterns and even inspirations behind poets who are long past being able to tell us directly what to do. I believe this will work for you. If you need a bit more than my assurance, I offer you the opinions of T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom:. Tradition and the Individual Talent.
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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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Introduction: Forms: Lewis Turco
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Perhaps you have decided that you would rather not write "formal" poetry. Perhaps using a form seems like "cheating" to you, or you think that forms make poetry sound dated. I can completely understand your apprehension. For years, I plugged along writing free verse. To help me work through some forms. I had chosen about two dozen forms and we worked through three to four forms a week for a whole summer. Introduced me to the work of Lewis Turco.
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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...
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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'.
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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 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...
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Chapter 1: Summer
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 3: Winter
Struggle - Pain - Solipsism - Wit - Perseverance. Friday, October 1, 2010. What is "Winter" Poetry? Let's see how a few of the Winter Poets find a way to carve out new imagery and language in the categories of this season. Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;. My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy. Seven years thou'wert lent to me, and I thee pay,. Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now! Will man lament the state he should envy? On My First Son. Of the diffi...
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The place online where aviation meets poetry. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I have slipped the surly bonds of earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;. Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth. Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things. You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung. High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there. I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung. My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,.
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Sunday, October 04, 2015. Up to 75% off at www.lulu.com , This poem is in THE GRAND DELUSION By Paul Spradley. The Earth is a magnet. And we're magnetic too. And I want to attract you. No matter how close we are. We're never close enough. You might as well wish on a star. As say we're close, so off the cuff. Since we're so different. We stick like glue. Stick to each other. Till thoughts get through. It's all the same. Do we play this game? Friday, September 18, 2015. I WANT A WOMAN. I WANT A WOMAN.
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What Is Your Poetry Worth? Luckily for everyone, I won't be doing it alone. Here you'll find posts about my experiences over the year, but also lists of paying markets, interviews with and advice from editors and publishers who pay poets, and essays by esteemed friends and colleagues who have opinions on the subject or are participating in this experiment themselves. To learn more about me and/or to support my work by buying my books, go to www.jessicapiazza.com. Facebook: Jessica Piazza / Author. Way th...
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PoetryHaus is an online platform for reading and submitting poetry. Welcome to PoetryHaus.com. This site is meant for users to read and submit poetry and creative writing. In order to post a Poem click on the ‘Submit A Poem’ link on the left or click on the link below. It Was The Year. Freeing The Flowers For Love. Perception Of A Child. An Apology To A Lost Love. She’s Gone To Sleep. If It Is Love. Dreams At The Water’s edge. A Time Of Butterflies. Dreams That No Longer Come. The Sound Of Moonlight.
