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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 77
... don't think so just now ; you will in the end . Exercise 4 Copy it out on a sheet of paper , leaving a goodly amount of space between each line , and do a full scansion of it . Here's mine . Compare , but don't be overly concerned if we don ...
... don't know the tunes to the old ones ? Ha ha , here's the kicker : find an older person who does and invite him or ... don't feel self - conscious . Exercise 2 What do you say , care to write a song of your own ? A love song would be ...
... don't compose music yourself , there's a danger here that texts of yours will become a subservient part of a musical work listed as by the composer . The study of music is a long , involved process , and I don't recommend it unless it's ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
12 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.