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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 10:48pm On Mar 12, 2015

cisse7575:
perfectly written, write up bros.

Oh really? shocked

Well, will bear that in mind! wink

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by JigsawKillah(m): 11:14pm On Mar 12, 2015

job well done @cisse7575

as for anyone aspiring to become a good poet wanting to join NPC (Nairaland Poetry Club), all you need do is drop a poem here and signify your interest.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Gladyys(f): 11:25pm On Mar 12, 2015

cisse7575:
what or where is the object here? Please explain

Its a fan,got 3 blades...i did a play with blade n blow(both 4 fighting,but in this case used diff..same goes for dat 'star' and 'fans') ....how it looks,sounds n its uses all there...
i didnt get it right?

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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by JigsawKillah(m): 11:44pm On Mar 12, 2015

Gladyys:
Its a fan,got 3 blades...i did a play with blade n blow(both 4 fighting,but in this case used diff..same goes for dat 'star' and 'fans') ....how it looks,sounds n its uses all there...
i didnt get it right?

your use of double entendres is amazing
you're rapping skills are helping your poetic skills

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Gladyys(f): 7:29am On Mar 13, 2015

JigsawKillah:
your use of double entendres is amazing
you're rapping skills are helping your poetic skills

Thanks,we look up to you guys and the mavelous work you do...and you understand how i did it.

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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by harlos: 8:22pm On Mar 13, 2015*

harlos:
Its scary look is frightening
as we move closer in evening
our neighbour's crooked door
made from a woody stem
joined with patches to keep it firm
makes their house look dull
the color is blurry
because there was no paint to furnish
the door makes excessive sound
as he bangs with full force
we laugh and joke at it
in the morning as we go to school
we dare not do such on our way back at noon
our mother warned against our act
as our neighbour is a nice man.

modified

cc cisse7575

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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Lucentbeauty(f): 9:19pm On Mar 13, 2015

I was invited here by harlos . I read the topic of today's was this is what I thought up.

Where is it?
Mummy I don't know
That shining spoon
Mummy I don't know
The one you refuse to give junior
Mummy I don't know
That small spoon
Mummy I don't know
With craved animals at the edge
Mummy I don't know
The one you chose
Mummy I don't know
When we went to the market
Mummy I don't know
The one you love to eat rice and fish with
Mummy I don't know
She sighed
Kissing my forehead she left
With tears in my eyes
I turn to stare at the hole my spoon had gone through.

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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 8:56am On Mar 14, 2015

Gladyys:
I get the chills at night wen it drones,
i'l ask who sang wen its dawn,
held up by its feet,
with 3 kiths n kin dat neva meet,
it fiercely works,
it weapons clearly talks,
while cuttin round circles with its blade,
and when it blows the signs of heat on my skin quickly fade
i feel like a star
each time i stare at the fans....
.
.
ehm! hws this?(cover face).

you are good at rhyming. this is a very good write up. but as a kid, how do you feel about the fan? its color and the ceiling it was tight to? did you ever think of it falling down on you? etc..you have lots of things u are not making use of.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:00am On Mar 14, 2015

harlos:
modified

cc cisse7575

Now this is a writer genius! Good enough to be the teachers' teacher.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:10am On Mar 14, 2015

Lucentbeauty:
I was invited here by harlos . I read the topic of today's was this is what I thought up.

Where is it?
Mummy I don't know
That shining spoon
Mummy I don't know
The one you refuse to give junior
Mummy I don't know
That small spoon
Mummy I don't know
With craved animals at the edge
Mummy I don't know
The one you chose
Mummy I don't know
When we went to the market
Mummy I don't know
The one you love to eat rice and fish with
Mummy I don't know
She sighed
Kissing my forehead she left
With tears in my eyes
I turn to stare at the hole my spoon had gone through.

I so much like this

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Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by harlos: 5:59pm On Mar 14, 2015

cisse7575:
Now this is a writer genius! Good enough to be the teachers' teacher.

thanks

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Lucentbeauty(f): 7:21pm On Mar 14, 2015

cisse7575:
I so much like this

Thank you.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Gladyys(f): 12:19am On Mar 15, 2015

cisse7575:
you are good at rhyming. this is a very good write up. but as a kid, how do you feel about the fan? its color and the ceiling it was tight to? did you ever think of it falling down on you? etc..you have lots of things u are not making use of.

Now i understand.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 1:37pm On Mar 15, 2015

Gladyys:
Now i understand.

I'm glad you did

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Gladyys(f): 1:45pm On Mar 15, 2015

cisse7575:
I'm glad you did

THANKS

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 5:13pm On Mar 15, 2015

Gladyys:
THANKS

You are welcome

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 7:27pm On Mar 15, 2015

If you're close to your mom,
Drop a kiss on her forehead.
If you're far apart,
Your dp,pm,should speak for her
Tell her,u love her.
#Happy Mothers day
#myMom,myHero
.
.
Texanomaly and Everest' class tonight...Miss out at your own risk.LoL

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 9:01pm On Mar 15, 2015

Hallo...its nine

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:06pm On Mar 15, 2015

Tonight we've chosen the volta, or "the turn", in poetry.

Volta, ( Italian: “turn”) the turn in thought in a sonnet that is often indicated by such initial words as But, Yet, or And yet.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:07pm On Mar 15, 2015

I dey class oo

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:09pm On Mar 15, 2015

cisse7575:
I dey class oo

Welcome!

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:09pm On Mar 15, 2015

cisse7575:
I dey class oo

Welcome

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:10pm On Mar 15, 2015

Lol...network is slow and crazy here tonight sorry.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 9:10pm On Mar 15, 2015

Author and historian Paul Fussell calls the volta "indispensable." He states further that "the turn is the dramatic and climactic center of the poem, the place where the intellectual or emotional method of release first becomes clear and possible. Surely no sonnet succeeds as a sonnet that does not execute at the turn something analogous to the general kinds of 'release' with which the reader’s muscles and nervous system are familiar."

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:12pm On Mar 15, 2015

According to poet-critic Phillis Levin, "We could say that for the sonnet, the volta is the seat of its soul." Additionally, Levin states that "the arrangement of lines into patterns of sound serves a function we could call architectural, for these various acoustical partitions accentuate the element that gives the sonnet its unique force and character: the volta, the 'turn’ that introduces into the poem a possibility for transformation, like a moment of grace."

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:13pm On Mar 15, 2015

texanomaly:
Welcome

go on

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 9:14pm On Mar 15, 2015

Called the volta in sonnets, the turn is a vital part of almost all poems. Poet-critic Ellen Bryant Voigt states, "The sonnet’s volta, or 'turn'…has become an inherent expectation for most short lyric poems." Poet-critic T.S. Eliot calls the turn "one of the most important means of poetic effect since Homer." Kim Addonizio refers to the turn as "[t]he leap from one synapse to another, one thought to a further thought, one level of understanding or questioning to being in the presence of the mystery". In "Levels and Opposites: Structure in Poetry," Randall Jarrell says that "a successful poem starts in one position and ends at a very different one, often a contradictory or opposite one; yet there has been no break in the unity of the poem." Such a transition is executed by the turn.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 9:15pm On Mar 15, 2015

cisse7575:
go on

Hi Cisse,where's Qaisar?

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:16pm On Mar 15, 2015

TYPES OF TURNS:

Poet-critic Ellen Bryant Voigt, in her essay "The Flexible Lyric" suggests that all kinds of poems turn and these poems can be classified according to the ways they turn. Poetic turns can be narrative or dramatic just as a turn might signal a move from premise to conclusion, a turn might also consist of a transition from one emotional state to another.

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by EverestdeBliu(m): 9:19pm On Mar 15, 2015

Ironic
The ironic structure is a two-part structure which turns from making an assertion to undercutting that assertion, or pulling the rug out from underneath what (one had thought) had been established in the poem. As discussed by Christopher Bakken in "The Ironic Structure," "The ironic structure--with its building up and knocking down, its dreaming and waking--becomes the perfect instrument for a great Romantic ironist like Lord Byron, whose long poem "Don Juan" exemplifies this complicated problem.

One example of an ironic turn is this poem by Rae Armantrout.

DUSK

spider on the cold expanse
of glass, three stories high
rests intently
and so purely alone.

I’m not like that!

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:20pm On Mar 15, 2015

[b]Emblem
The emblem structure is a two-part structure that turns from an organized description of an object to a meditation on, a consideration of, the meaning of that object.

In this poem is an example of an emblem turn:

"A Green Crabs She'll"

by Mark Doty.

Not, exactly, green:
closer to bronze
preserved in kind brine,

something retrieved
from a Greco-Roman wreck,
patinated and oddly

muscular. We cannot
know what his fantastic
legs were like—

though evidence
suggests eight
complexly folded

scuttling works
of armament, crowned
by the foreclaws'

gesture of menace
and power. A gull's
gobbled the center,

leaving this chamber
—size of a demitasse—
open to reveal

a shocking, Giotto blue.
Though it smells
of seaweed and ruin,

this little traveling case
comes with such lavish lining!
Imagine breathing

surrounded by
the brilliant rinse
of summer's firmament.

What color is
the underside of skin?
Not so bad, to die,

if we could be opened
into this—
if the smallest chambers

of ourselves,
similarly,
revealed some sky.[/b]

Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:22pm On Mar 15, 2015

EverestdeBliu:
Hi Cisse,where's Qaisar?

he should be here soon after he finishes his green eba

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