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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... sense warrants it , and to as many as twelve . In the Funeral Oration , line two ( " I come " ) consists of eleven syllables , line five ( “ So let " ) of twelve syllables , and line six ( " Hath told " ) of nine syllables . 2. In a ...
... sense of the passage to " Not mend their Minds " in the midst of the triplet . At the same time , note how the last five lines are bound together by the terminal r - sounds . And the upshot is that the disruption of “ normal ” unity ...
... Sense . Good - Nature and Good - Sense must ever join ; To Err is Humane , to Forgive , Divine . Nay , fly to Altars ; there they'll talk you dead ; For Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread . Do I dare ? Well , Jean Campana Conway ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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