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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... happens to our model when I find new nouns to replace " man " and " watch " : The old gentleman looked at his very old timepiece . The old geezer looked at his very old ticktock . Electrifying , wouldn't you say ? Like , who needs a ...
... happens , it happens .... SILENT AND NOT - SO - SILENT PUNCTUATION When most folks hear the word " punctuation , ” their first reaction is to think " How boring " and begin heading for the hills . But do not do so , please 339 Free Verse.
... happens , take it from me , it happens . In the end , you should feel that each word in your poem is the Right One and that it's in its Right Place , and that goes for punctuation marks , too . Where the latter's concerned , strive for ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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