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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...

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'.

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise Four: Madrigal and Canzone

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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise Four: Madrigal and Canzone. Both of these forms are closely related and both, in the simplest of terms, are "songs." The madrigal is, as defined by Lewis Turco. All end rhymes are same in each stanza. Count, use x to count a syllable - xxxxxxxxxxx). For accents, use dash (unstressed) and slash (stressed); remember, these songs do not count accent). Accent example: -/-/-/-/-/- iambic pattern. Consider your work. Try again. Do not edit. It is...

Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise One: Modeling Billy Collins

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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise One: Modeling Billy Collins. This exercise is a variation of an exercise I did in a workshop with the slam poet, Taylor Mali. Used the following poem by Billy Collins. The other day as I was ricocheting slowly. Off the pale blue walls of this room,. Bouncing from typewriter to piano,. From bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,. I found myself in the L section of the dictionary. Where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard. S Remembrance ...

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 ...

Chapter 4: Spring: Exercise Five: Barbaric Yawp

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Spirituality - Nature - Renewal - Romance - Connection. Exercise Five: Barbaric Yawp. I too am not a bit tamed - I too am untranslatable;. I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. From " Song of Myself. The idea of the "barbaric yawp" is so linked to Walt Whitman that many folks often, wrongly, assume that Whitman's poetry was always. About creating this type of poem - a poem that spills over from line to line in a rush to catalog every last iteration of a thought. Read over the three poems ...

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Chapter 2: Autumn

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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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 ...