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| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by donifez(m): 9:44pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
walt whitman style is associated to the King james Bible and the famous Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, freeverse has an irregular meter,psalm 23 is a freeverse too. some people might ask what is the difference between freeverse and prose? Freeverse follow conventional poetry in that it has intentional line breaks. They also rely on poetic devices that set them apart from everyday language. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 9:46pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
donifez:Following. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:48pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
Network is killing me |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:54pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
Please is there any difference between a free verse and a rap? What makes a free verse a poem? |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by JigsawKillah(m): 9:57pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
Qaisar1:a rap goes with rhymes and like free verses, it has no metre. but free verses doesn't have to rhyme |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by donifez(m): 9:57pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
I don't want to bore you all with a verbiage about freeverse,so Jigsaw and I humbly stop here for today, you can ask any question later and i believe the tutors will answer your questions, Thanks. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:59pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
JigsawKillah:Ok. I see! Thanks |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by JigsawKillah(m): 10:00pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
an example of a free verse In Flight Wake up to a bright sapphire morning Cloudless skies This can only mean one thing It’s a go! At the launch site Teeth chits chattering And not just from the c-cold What if a bird confuses my head for a perch? Will my glasses be fogged up by the clouds? If I fall out of the basket And land in a field of cows Up we go! Far below Idyllic fields of patchwork green Glittering lakes - a treasure trove beneath the surface Click! I can’t believe I’m so high Feeling like a queen I stretch my arms out to the sides Now I’m a bird So high I close my eyes and take flight I feel the wind in my wings Up with the clouds My hair, now feathers, sweeps behind me I am as elegant as a swan Soaring higher than the Earth Oh I’m not a bird I’m not as elegant as a swan I’m about as elegant as a rhino on roller skates I’m just a schoolgirl On a balloon flight And we just crash-landed In a field With cows. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by JigsawKillah(m): 10:06pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
that said, Donifez and I have decided to continue this topic next week as we put together more ideas, you wouldn't want to miss it for anything! for the meantime, Keep your questions rolling in...... |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by GIYAZZ(m): 10:12pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
Where is Laykorn? |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:52pm On Mar 17, 2015 |
was stranded, had to call someone to bring money to me. just getting home. I have a question sir. How long is free verse? how many stanzas? how many lines? |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:05pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Quickly I moved into the class, with my Indian attire, lots of books folded with my left hand to my left side. 'Good evening class!' we will commence from where we stopped last week. USING OBJECTS IN POETRY |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 9:07pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
cisse7575:Good evening. *took the front sit* *sipping the coke she shared with me today* Shall we start the class? |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:07pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Present sir |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Oahray: 9:08pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
*takes seat*  |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:12pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
I follow up the initial exercise described last week by asking everyone to extend his or her imaginative engagement with his or her object by giving it a voice, that is re-writing your poem you wrote last week in the first person from your object's perspective. To help you find a way in, I suggest thinking about a ‘Day in the life' of your object, visualizing where it spends its time, how it is used, etc. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:16pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Gloriaz Gladyys Harlos Krystalxxx OMA4U EverestdeBliu Donifez Jigswkillah |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:18pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Consider whether your object has all the senses or whether it is deaf or blind and what kind of 'character' your object has, for instance if it is aggressive, friendly or lonely. the surreal of this exercise is also useful in creating 'anew the universe'. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 9:23pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
cisse7575:Following...... |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by texanomaly(f): 9:23pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
*Runs into classroom* "Sorry I'm late." *takes the first available seat* |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:26pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
A useful poem to discuss, which shows the possibilities of this technique, is Sylvia Plath's 'Mushrooms’, which interestingly was itself written as an exercise. Now let's study the poem and see how Plath manages to create a voice for the mushrooms that sounds convincing, and also what else the poem might be about. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:27pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Mushrooms Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving the needles, The leafy bedding, Even the paving. Our hammers, our rams, Earless and eyeless, Perfectly voiceless, Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes. We Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow, Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing. So many of us! So many of us! We are shelves, we are Tables, we are meek, We are edible, Nudgers and shovers In spite of ourselves. Our kind multiplies: We shall by morning Inherit the earth. Our foot's in the door. Sylvia Plath |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 9:28pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
cisse7575:Waiting patiently for the poem! |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:28pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Into this hospitable clay i delve my feet My hairs seek to feel the skies Though still far from it To the wind's tune - i do sides to sides Yet feet still firm beneath |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:33pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
use of alliteration, assonance, symbolism, internal rhyme and repetition. This obsessive compulsive’s delight is written with the sharp clean structured precision of a surgeon. At first glance “Mushrooms” has all the trademarks of the perfect terrorist broadcast al-Qa’iada would aspire to have read out by Osama Bin- Laden to cast fear in the hearts of their enemies, with it’s quietly menacing slow yet rhythmic flow. (Although one feels that if the Taliban had used a similar message, I would be well on my way to studying the Koran!) Like many poems it can be interpreted in countless different ways; with ‘Mushrooms, ’ Plath has merged several ideas (the Cold War, the atom bomb, depression to name but a few) into a single theme. |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by yuzjet(m): 9:37pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
cisse7575:Still following...... |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by firestar(f): 9:37pm On Mar 19, 2015*. Modified: 7:17am On Mar 20, 2015 |
cisse7575:...25 hours..... Time fer everything Countdown to sunset Boredom sets in Droopy eyes Oh how yawn flies (Buh I'm not tiii-yerd) Targets to meet In offices On the streets Living life Ending simple existence Joy in the journey Let's go the distance! I'll go to bed soon The sandman's crust Is pasting my eyes Forming crescent moons The night becomes me I become the night My smile dims And one fades to black Only to dream dreams Of what could be Of what should be And would be Mine... Truth is mine |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:45pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
[b] The main themes being that of the upcoming rise of Woman’s rights with ‘We are shelves, we are Tables,’ highlighting the view held by men in society at that time of women as purely domestic objects and it is also laced with echoes of the birth of her first child. ‘Overnight, very Whitely, discretely’ resembles the sensation (or rather lack thereof) of the moment of conception. The use of the Mushroom metaphor fits perfectly with the image of a pregnant woman. 'Nobody sees us, Stops us’ remarks on the two things, the fact that it is often not until late into the pregnancy that it becomes obvious that one is pregnant and two, babies have a habit of slipping past us unnoticed. ‘Soft fists’ is surely alluding to the kicks the mother feels during pregnancy. 'Earless and eyeless, Perfectly voiceless,’ is another beautiful reference to the growing foetus. ‘We Diet on water, On crumbs of shadow,’ refers to the reality that the baby is nourished through what the mother is eating and generally the mother’s diet changes during pregnancy. Most mothers I am sure would recognise the line relating to the birth of their child with ‘Widen the crannies, Shoulder through holes.’ The lines 'Bland-mannered, asking Little or nothing’ convey the seemingly effortless ease in which babies survive. 'We shall by morning Inherit the earth’ suggests that eventually the young will grow and take over the earth.[/b] |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 9:52pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Am I communicating? |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by Qaisar1: 9:55pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
cisse7575:Yes sire! |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 10:07pm On Mar 19, 2015 |
Now, everyone should rewrite his poem adding what discussed today to the poem. I think, for today, I will call it a day, till the next class, be blessed |
| Re: Poetry Classes For Beginners - NPC (Signup Thread) by cisse7575(m): 7:01am On Mar 20, 2015 |
firestar:what are you trying to say here sir? what is the title of this poem? Title it, it will surely give the readers more understanding. |