POETRYSTUDY

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Young man, The world will soon be destroyed, I said young man, Prepare to scream at the void

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I sense that I am of another age & that the cheap distractions of this age are all that separate me from immense discovery. What flowers may bloom in the mind! Mind alone! Radiant faces of shadow! Alien melodies! Knitting in summer! Orchids of fire! Wise crystals! Water wrestling its way out of bottles & making off straight to the beach! Cats washing dishes for the meditative qualities inherent in the act of washing dishes! Numb mother from whom I was wrenched! Numb beginning & end! I’m a pill, O my angels, take two! Of course I don’t sleep on my back there are coffins for that.

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

POETRY IS..

the attention to detail, the illustration of a specific image or scene.

in which its precise articulation flows in mesmerizing eloquence.

Poetry can be condensed and contained speech, but also expansive as the ecstasy of pure voice.

Poetry wanders, surprises and defies expectation.

Poetry foregrounds cultural tensions

Poetry forces the reader to experience their emotions or certain phenomenas or forces us to question our own beliefs.

Poetry is expressive, informative, definitive and persuasive, the purpose of writing.

Poem offers INSIGHTS about the speaker, world, reader/ culture and language.

Poetry is defined in connotation as well as denotation

Poetry does restrict itself in form or allow themselves to be careless in freedom

Poetry confronts emotions in honesty

Poetry is self-confrontation

form follows function

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Sonnet

used for an argument

-persuasive speech, creating a turning point

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PROSE POETRY

emphasizes the relation between voice, scene, language, culture and compression of form

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

POETRY IS..

the attention to detail, the illustration of a specific image or scene.

in which its precise articulation flows in mesmerizing eloquence. 

Poetry can be condensed and contained speech, but also expansive as the ecstasy of pure voice.

Poetry wanders, surprises and defies expectation.

Poetry foregrounds cultural tensions

Poetry forces the reader to experience their emotions or certain phenomenas or forces us to question our own beliefs.

Poetry is expressive, informative, definitive and persuasive, the purpose of writing.

Poem offers INSIGHTS about the speaker, world, reader/ culture and language.

Poetry is defined in connotation as well as denotation

Poetry does restrict itself in form or allow themselves to be careless in freedom

Poetry confronts emotions in honesty

Poetry is self-confrontation

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CRAFTING IDEAS

POETRY READER by Ken Weiser

CRAFTING IDEAS

-when LESS tells more

-or when MORE is diluted into less to make it more potent, powerful…

-talking about a smaller detail that nails the scene or emotion of the moment

“in the dark i fell

someone grabbed me in the air

i grasp in fright

then I felt the cool of your opalescent jade

I will never let you escape.”

-build poems out of surprises

-confront ones own voice

-sharpen a contrast or juxtaposition

-create a psychological or linguistic effect when you read out loud

-show not tell

-STRAY FROM STEREOTYPES/ CLICHES

-know what lines to keep or take out

-use sound image, language to reveal and confront rather than conceal and evade

-let your poem talk not your ego

-find the poem beneath the poem

-don’t afraid to say too much out of fear

-create enough of a world for a reader to submerge themselves in

-do not assume that the reader understand your world 

-is it better with narrative elements than descriptive?

-conceal just enough of the story’s background, but not to its detriment

-explore in writing in order to find your “true” subject or when you learn something new

--encounter a new or unexpected energy or image to leap and explore 

-create a turning point in the poem

-provide significant details to the reader to evoke desired emotion

-explore the idea long enough to sustain that is hasn’t been easily satisfied from cleverness, implies or narcissism

-read poem aloud many times

-make sure that in each lines or group of lines the image you are trying to paint emerges into your imagination…….(the gasp of the crowd, add significant details to portray their shock/excitement, shrill shudder when the wind blew, 

-revise to add new lines, transitions, clarifications, images or detract some?

-look for possible mitosis… is your poem part of another poem?

TREASURE HUNT

-each new line in poetry creates a new dimension/ new flash of image / new sensory experience for the reader

-each line stands on their own to create the entire image.

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THE POETS COMPANION by K. Addonizio and D. Laux

WRITING AND KNOWING

Writing about the minuscule and immediate things around you

Looking at the things that we know, then challenging what we know