Be a PoetOriginally 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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... times devastating Essay on Man . I can't help getting chills when I read this . How about you ? Know then thyself , presume not God to scan ; The proper study of Mankind is Man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A 138 Be a Poet !
... scan them marking off weak and strong stresses and separating the feet with slashes . You've already done some of the drudg- ery in dividing the polysyllabic words into separate syllables : ― ( a ) Before my pen has glean'd my teeming ...
... scan them in the same way . Hint : if this seems a bit overwhelming or you plain run into trouble , simply use the lines as grids and substitute any old words so long as they are the same number of syllables , with the accents in the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 11 |
WHITHER WILST WIT? | 19 |
WORDS WORDS WORDS | 49 |
Copyright | |
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