Creating Poetry,9781582974637

Creating Poetry

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ISBN13: 9781582974637
ISBN10: 1582974632
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-07-29
Publisher(s): Writers Digest Books
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Summary

*Nuts-and-bolts instruction helps budding poets become comfortable using poetry terms, forms and different styles *Includes a reading list, basic submission information and study plans Designed to encourage budding poets to explore language, subject matter, free and measured verse, imagery, metaphor, and more-Creating Poetry is the must-have resource for anyone who wants to write or teach poetry. Readers will find in-depth instruction, definitions of poetry terms and examples, challenging exercises and more.

Table of Contents

Introduction
A Map of Poetic Terms
I. Preparing 9(16)
Developing your poetic sensitivity, to see the world as only you can.
Beginnings
Reading
Senses
Knowing and Not Knowing
Physical Education
Spiritual Exercises
II. Language 25(17)
Learning the fundamental tools of poetry and using them effectively.
Words
Concreteness and Abstraction
Naming
Etymology
Grammar and Punctuation
Allusions
Pure and Impure Poems
III. Sight 42(10)
Refining sight — and insight — to make your poetry come alive within the mind's eye...and the heart's eye, too.
Image
Metaphor
Symbols, Etc.
Vision
IV Sound 52(10)
Sensitizing yourself to the music of words — both singly and in combination.
Alliteration
Assonance
Rhyme
Sound Effects
V Movement 62(23)
Developing the rhythmic qualities that make poems sing...and shout, march, croon, and whisper.
Meter
Free Verse
Prose
Iambics
Accentual Meter
Syllabics
Pacing
VI. Shaping 85(16)
Understanding and using the basic units of which poems are made.
Lines
Sentences
Stanzas
Repetition and Variation
Visual Shape
Titles
Letters
Form and Content
VII. Patterns & Traditions 101(36)
Taking advantage of the full array of poetic forms.
Ballad
Epigrams
Ghazal
Haiku
Ode
Pantoum
Sapphics
Sequences and Long Poems
Sestina
Song
Sonnet
Villanelle
Other "Fixed Forms"
Summary of Forms
VIII. Voice 137(10)
Becoming aware of the fine nuances of how the words are said and connected, revealing each poem's implied speaker and 'Vance."
Dialogue, Drama, and Conversation
Dramatic Monologue
Perspective and Point-of-View
Questions
Tone
Understatement
IX. Sources of Inspiration 147(20)
Opening up to all the potential sources ofpoetry —both all around you, and within yourself.
Borrowings
Responses
Research
Journals
Dream
Memory
Thinking
Emotion
Love
Opposites
Chance
Imagination
X Things to Write About 167(13)
Transforming what's general, the foggy abstract, into the specific — a time, a place, a living situation.
Subjects
Stories
People
Occasions
Place
Modern Life
Animals and Plants
Objects
XI. Other Arts, Other Influences 180(11)
Appreciating and drawing inspiration from the interrelationship among all the arts and sciences: everything that's vividly human.
Translation
Music
Myths and Fairy Tales
Painting and Sculpture
Photographs
History and Politics
Science
XII. Finishing 191(9)
Bringing each poem to successful completion.
Revision
Failure, Irritations, and Difficulties
Mistakes
Omissions
Endings
Appendix: Submitting Poems—Another Exercise 200(2)
Index 202(10)
Index to Exercises 212

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