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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... light : and there was light . And God saw the light , that it was good : and God divided the light from the darkness . And God called the light Day , and the darkness he called Night . And the evening and the morning were the first day ...
... light . And you , my father , there on the sad height , Curse , bless , me now with your fierce tears , I pray . Do not go gentle into that good night . Rage , rage against the dying of the light . Villanelles need not be on such ...
... light . For who sleeps once and sees the secret light Whereby sleep shows the soul a fairer way Between the rise and rest of day and night , Shall care no more to fare as all men may , But be his place of pain or of delight , There ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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