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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... METAPHORS In case you never realized it , human language is , by its nature , metaphorical . No matter what culture one comes from , one employs metaphors every day in a variety of ways . " What a jackass I am ! " is one . " Where did ...
... metaphor or a conceit . The whole of Blake's “ Garden of Love ” is one : I went to the Garden of Love , And saw what I ... metaphors . For instance , in telling the story of a human soul on the road to fulfillment or re- demption ...
... metaphors offer you as a writer - and do consider reading that glorious work The Canterbury Tales in its entirety . " Eek , the lights screamed ! " That's a mixed metaphor , in case you're not in the know , and something remains to be ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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