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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... of euphony Would cry out sharply . XI He rode over Connecticut In a glass coach . Once , a fear pierced him In that he mistook The shadow of his equipage For blackbirds . XII The river is moving . The blackbird must be 166 Be a Poet !
... moving poem a kind of finality after seemingly random rhyming in the previous stanzas . Note that the couplets fittingly have a kind of weak snap and crackle to them : Ah , love , let us be true To one 208 Be a Poet !
... moving the story forward . Let " Sir Patrick Spens , " which relates a subtle blood- and - thunder story , serve as an example . Note that in the light of the tragedy that's hinted at , the king's 265 A Potpourri of Other Traditional Forms.
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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