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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... rhythm , think of a bass drum beat ( OOM - pa ) and a waltz beat ( OOM - pa - pa ) . Exercise 4 - Say the words " Bratwurst " and " Rostbraten " out loud , fol- lowed by their rhythms , OOM - pa and OOM - pa - pa , about ten times , and ...
... rhythm in " The Bard , " in which he portrays the last Celtic bard prophesying be- fore he dives off a cliff to his death : Weave the warp , and weave the woof , The ... rhythm , whether the poet likes it or not , 151 Rhythm and Meter.
... rhythm 143 ( see also anapest , dactyl , iamb , and trochee under foot ) accented or heavily stressed syllables 147 , 148 falling rhythm 146 falling and rising rhythm 144 rising rhythm 149 , 152 , 171 , 177 unaccented or lightly ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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