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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... Night . And the evening and the morning were the first day . ( Italics mine . ) In Jeffrey Greene's poem " The Anatomy of Night , ” note how effective the repetition of “ night ” is at the be- ginnings of the lines , drawing our ...
... night over the bluffs where King George's man - o ' - war and two of his fireships slipped toward New London , night in the statuary where one stone reads , " I would not want to live always , " the body of night in our hands , the ...
... night . All loves and dreams and sounds and gleams of night Made it all music that such minstrels may , And all they had they gave it of delight ; But in the full face of the fire of day What place shall be for any starry light , What ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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