Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 Seiten Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers' organizations is especially useful. |
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... course , would be extremely gratifying to me , the author . But if you feel the need to concentrate on a particular aspect — like sound correspondences — and sort of give yourself a mini - intensive course in it , that's just fine ; do ...
... course of study based on this book . Mottoes are short written statements that pertain to an organization and have been selected and adopted to define it and inspire loyalty and camaraderie in its mem- bership . " In God We Trust ...
... course , With rocks , and stones , and trees . Note how the r - sound of " rolled round " is reinforced by those in the end rhymes " fears " and " years " and " force " and " course , " and the related l - sound in " seal " and " feel ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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