Be a PoetTwickenham Press, 2007 - 420 páginas 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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... hand at composing a short parable . If you have trouble coming up with a subject , try using life and begin it with something like “ Life is like a flower garden . ” Another form of extended simile is the epic simile , which serves to ...
... hand or eye , Could frame thy fearful symmetry ? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes ! On what wings dare he aspire ? What the hand , dare seize the fire ? And what shoulder , & what art , Could twist the sinews ...
... hand corner , and if your poem runs to more than a page , type the page number of the pages after the first one in the upper right - hand corner . The title should ap- pear about an inch down from the top , centered on the page , and ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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