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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... called a couplet , and they're referred to by a pair of small letters ( aa ) . A paragraph consisting of couplets would thus be designated aabbccdd , etc. The following excerpt from Yeats's " Sailing to Byzantium " is a couplet , and ...
... called “ The Windhover " : I CAUGHT this morning morning's minion , king- dom of daylight's dauphin , dapple - dawn - drawn Falcon , in his riding Of the rolling level underneath him steady air , and striding High there , how he rung ...
... called Pindaric odes of Abraham Cowley ( 1618-1667 ) , one of the earliest poets to try his hand at same , were so ir- regular that , were it not for their end - rhymes , parts of them could pass for free verse today . Spinning off of ...
Inhalt
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Urheberrecht | |
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