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Chapter 2: Autumn: Exercise Three: Elegy and Sapphic Stanza
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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Exercise Three: Elegy and Sapphic Stanza. S well-known elegy illustrates the final two stages, combining praise with a determination to use verse to make the subject live on:. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;. Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile. The short and simple annals of the Poor. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,. 8221; Thomas Gray. For this ex...
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Chapter 2: Autumn: What is "Autumn" Poetry?
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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. What is "Autumn" Poetry? The time you won your town the race. We chaired you through the market-place;. Man and boy stood cheering by,. And home we brought you shoulder-high. To-day, the road all runners come,. Shoulder-high, we bring you home,. And set you at your threshold down,. Townsman of a stiller town. From " To An Athlete Dying Young,. Three foggy mornings and one rainy day. Will rot the best birch fence a man can build'.
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Introduction: Practice and Repetition: Rilke and Erasmus
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Practice and Repetition: Rilke and Erasmus. One thing that a poet probably knows by instinct but still hates hearing is that his poetry will never improve without practice. Well, let me pull the band-aid off with full force: you must. Practice. What is more, you must practice often. When Ranier Maria Rilke. Began his correspondence with Franz Kappus ( Letters to a Young Poet. He told the young poet:. Wanted to show us why Shakespeare felt the need ...
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Chapter 2: Autumn: Exercise Four: The Ode
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Loss - War - Heroism - Emptiness - Longing. Exercise Four: The Ode. There are several different types of odes. Which poets have created over the years - among the most famous are the Pindaric Ode. And, perhaps the most famous, the Keatsian Ode (also called the English Ode). For this exercise, you will be working at a simple exploration of an idea rather than working within a specified form. However, if you like to work in form (or would like to try it), here is the model for the Keatsian Ode:. Be creativ...
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Introduction: Organization: Northrop Frye
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. In determining an organizing principle for this project, I was reminded of Northrop Frye. S work in Anatomy of Criticism. In particular his essay on the Theory of Archetypes. To adoring the metaphysical poets. To only enjoying the work of one poet, say Dorothy Parker. They existed and were writing at the same time - big deal! Their poetry is worlds away from one another. The same could be said for Ezra Pound. I also don't believe who. A poet is sho...
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Introduction: Modeling: Eliot and Bloom
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Modeling: Eliot and Bloom. Modeling, simply put, is taking the work of another poet and attempting to emulate that poet. What we are trying to do is figure out the thought patterns and even inspirations behind poets who are long past being able to tell us directly what to do. I believe this will work for you. If you need a bit more than my assurance, I offer you the opinions of T.S. Eliot and Harold Bloom:. Tradition and the Individual Talent.
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Chapter 1: Summer: Exercise Three: The Ghazal
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Exercise Three: The Ghazal. Is a form that allows you to be a little more adventurous with your ideas because it is a string of independent thoughts. It is composed of a series of couplets (between five and fifteen) and the first couplet establishes the only rhyme pattern for the poem. There is no set meter, but we can use the iambic pentameter for illustration purposes:. A - / - / - / - / - / (refrain). A - / - / - / - / - / (refrain). Some bo...
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Chapter 1: Summer: What is "Summer" Poetry?
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Tuesday, September 14, 2010. What is "Summer" Poetry? And who could play it well enough. If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost,. For he gave all his heart and lost. From " Never Give All the Heart. It's true I can still see you. With the expert eye of having held you. To me, the Summer Poets are often preoccupied with the here and now; they are present. What I love about Lucille Clifton. To get the reader on...
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Introduction: Poetry Pedagogy: The Essay That Started It All
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The Basics - Modeling - Practice - Forms - Organization. Monday, May 17, 2010. Poetry Pedagogy: The Essay That Started It All. A couple of years ago, a friend of mine told me about the poet, Taylor Mali, making an appearance at a conference in Texas; he's a spoken word artist I really admire. I figured I simply had. Learn in those workshops and what did you actually have to learn on your own? You're probably not alone. Our students cannot "find their voice" unless they are shown how. Here's the original ...
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Chapter 1: Summer: Example Poetry (J.D. Isip)
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Passion - Confession - Adventure - Sensuality - Willfulness. Example Poetry (J.D. Isip). On Watching My Dog Chase a Cat the Day I Put Him Down. I would like to be like you in my final hour. To let the old electric impulse spring. My tired carcass in one last show of power –. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? To let the old electric impulse spring. And flower the path towards fate –. O Death, where is your victory? O Death, where is your sting? And flower the path towards fate.