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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... syllables . For variety , there were only two accented or heavily stressed syllables on some lines , one before and one after the pause . To top it off , the initial letters of the accented syllables were al- literated . So all in all ...
... syllables " be- " and " lieve , ” we give more emphasis to the second syllable when pronouncing it . But don't take my word for it- Exercise 19 Pronounce " believe " several times , giving emphasis to the first syllable " be " and then ...
... syllables first and then reading each syllable over sev- eral times , giving emphasis now to the first one , now to the second as we did with " believe " above in Exercise 19 . ― Here are the answers : if ( f ) puodas ( ə ) bistîf ( p ) ...
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INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
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