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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... hears . I wander thro ' each charter'd street , Near where the charter'd Thames does flow , And mark in every face I meet ... hear . " Charter'd " refers to the Magna Carta , which granted rights to every Englishman ; it's used here ...
... hear , I hear , with joy I hear ! But there's a Tree , of many , one , A single Field which I have looked upon , Both of them speak of something that is gone : The Pansy at my feet Doth the same tale repeat : Whither is fled the ...
... hear the merry din . " He holds him with his skinny hand , " There was a ship , " quoth he . " Hold off ! unhand me , grey - beard loon ! " Eftsoons his hand dropt he . He holds him with his glittering eye The Wedding - Guest stood ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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