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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... example when we say , " When in doubt , leave out " instead of " When you are in doubt , leave it out . " This form of omission should be used sparingly , lest a passage you're working on begin to look like a telegram . Exercise 30 ...
... Example : There are three " ways " to " waylay " someone . syllepsis : using the same word literally and figura- tively . Example : The jilted girl “ ate " her sandwich and her heart out . Did you happen to notice the antanaclasis ...
... Example : " fox " and " annex . " · Alliteration , where the initial consonants of words are the same , in other words a specialized form of consonance - Example : " Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers . " ( We've already met ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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