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Wyatt Townley, the Kansas poet laureate emerita, advises taking a daily dose of poetry, like a vitamin for the mind. Poetry from Daily Life: Memorizing is like any muscle, growing stronger with ...
This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Lesléa Newman, who lives in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Lesléa began writing sixty years ago.
All from that one beginning line, we had the start of a winter poem, a spring garden poem, a picnic poem (or a poem written by a mouse), and a short, decisive poem. All from kids who had most ...
All aspects of language contribute to it: loudness, pitch, duration, pause, syntax, repeated elements, length of phrases, and frequency of polysyllabic words. As C. S. Lewis observes, "If the scansion of a line meant all the phonetic facts, no two lines would scan the same way." [7] Meter is another matter. It is an ordering of language by ...
The game has been taught at several universities such as Davidson College, Yale University, and UCLA. [10] [11] [12] Nelson himself describes his surprise at the online attention the game received when reviewed on game sites: "Here was an artwork, considered experimental in the fields of electronic art and writing (a digital poem and art-game for crusty crunk’s sake), and it was being ...
A treatise on poetry by Diomedes Grammaticus is a good example, as this work categorizes dactylic hexameter verses in ways that were later interpreted under the golden line rubric. Independently, these two trends show the form becoming highly artificial—more like a puzzle to solve than a medium for personal poetic expression.
There are no rules to this game, which I call Word of the Month Poetry Challenge. The idea is to examine the word of the month, probe for its secrets, its stories, choose one, and write about it.
After applying the appropriate arsis or thesis to a line, we look at the rhythm that the markings make and assign a type-line, or foot, to the half-line. Sievers created type-lines based on the metrical patterns that he saw in Old English poetry, and named them in alphabetical order according to the most frequently used.