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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... heart ? And when thy heart began to beat , What dread hand ? & what dread feet ? What the hammer ? what the chain , In what furnace was thy brain ? What the anvil ? what dread grasp , Dare its deadly terrors clasp ? When the stars threw ...
... heart be still as loving , And the moon be still as bright . II For the sword outwears its sheath , And the soul wears out the breast , And the heart must pause to breathe , And love itself have rest . III Though the night was made for ...
... heart . And who can so recall the fears That love's first steps do surely bring ; The heart is born its song to sing , The feeling fills the eyes with tears . So feebly will I try to write A tribute to my one true love , And with the ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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