Poems like music will forever make the world go round.
Around the world, poets will not stop writing poems and sing their hymns. Poetry is made out of life. According to Eliot and Wordsworth it is something recollected in tranquility.
Here is a sample poem : Ars Poetica by Archibald Machleish
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globe fruit
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone,
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown –
A poem should be wordless
As the light of the birds
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind –
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
A poem should be equal to:
Not true
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea –
A poem should not mean
But be.
II. Check out the following words about poetry:
1. metrical literature A metrical literature is having a regular arrangement of accents.
A= metrical literature
B= imaginative literature
A+B=Poetry
2. prosaic means ordinary, like prose (plain language). It is the language of reason.
“The definition of a good prose is proper words in their proper places.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
3. imagination Imagination is a creation of the mind. It is thinking to create or forming pictures in the mind. the imagination of a writer
4. Scrooge Scrooge is any dingy or stingy person. “The…. Old miser in Charles Dickens story “A Christmas Carol.”
5. succor Succor means assistance or any person or thing that relieves (especially British, succor).
6.epic An epic is a long narrative poem which is communal in character (…race), rather than those of individual. The style is marked by dignity and sublimity. The same meter is used throughout, and the theme is the same action of unusual interest.
Here unity is achieved by concentration on the main character
7. sonnet A sonnet can be an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet with an octave ( 8 lines), a sestet (6 lines).
English or Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 3 quatrains, with a rhyming couplet.
In both types the normal measure is iambic pentameter (14 lines).
8. octave An octave is a group of eight; first eight lines of a sonnet; a group of 8 lines of poetry; in music the series of tones GABCDEFG
9. elegy An elegy is a poem of lamentation. As a rule an elegy is less spontaneous than the true lyric. Like the ode, is often elaborate in style and death is sometimes the sole theme.
10. lyric This can apply to all classes of poetry. Its chief characteristic is its emotional quality or intensity.
Poetic way of the heart: “It follows that since powerful feelings are of brief duration, the lyric as an artistic expression of emotion is short. It has been called the quintessence of momentary mood into words.” (Paul Landis)
Rose Flores Martinez
2.23.09
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http://rfvietnamrose09.blogspot.com
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Around the world, poets will not stop writing poems and sing their hymns. Poetry is made out of life. According to Eliot and Wordsworth it is something recollected in tranquility.
Here is a sample poem : Ars Poetica by Archibald Machleish
A poem should be palpable and mute
As a globe fruit
Dumb
As old medallions to the thumb
Silent as the sleeve-worn stone,
Of casement ledges where the moss has grown –
A poem should be wordless
As the light of the birds
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
Leaving, as the moon releases
Twig by twig the night-entangled trees,
Leaving, as the moon behind the winter leaves,
Memory by memory the mind –
A poem should be motionless in time
As the moon climbs
A poem should be equal to:
Not true
For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf
For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea –
A poem should not mean
But be.
II. Check out the following words about poetry:
1. metrical literature A metrical literature is having a regular arrangement of accents.
A= metrical literature
B= imaginative literature
A+B=Poetry
2. prosaic means ordinary, like prose (plain language). It is the language of reason.
“The definition of a good prose is proper words in their proper places.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
3. imagination Imagination is a creation of the mind. It is thinking to create or forming pictures in the mind. the imagination of a writer
4. Scrooge Scrooge is any dingy or stingy person. “The…. Old miser in Charles Dickens story “A Christmas Carol.”
5. succor Succor means assistance or any person or thing that relieves (especially British, succor).
6.epic An epic is a long narrative poem which is communal in character (…race), rather than those of individual. The style is marked by dignity and sublimity. The same meter is used throughout, and the theme is the same action of unusual interest.
Here unity is achieved by concentration on the main character
7. sonnet A sonnet can be an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet with an octave ( 8 lines), a sestet (6 lines).
English or Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 3 quatrains, with a rhyming couplet.
In both types the normal measure is iambic pentameter (14 lines).
8. octave An octave is a group of eight; first eight lines of a sonnet; a group of 8 lines of poetry; in music the series of tones GABCDEFG
9. elegy An elegy is a poem of lamentation. As a rule an elegy is less spontaneous than the true lyric. Like the ode, is often elaborate in style and death is sometimes the sole theme.
10. lyric This can apply to all classes of poetry. Its chief characteristic is its emotional quality or intensity.
Poetic way of the heart: “It follows that since powerful feelings are of brief duration, the lyric as an artistic expression of emotion is short. It has been called the quintessence of momentary mood into words.” (Paul Landis)
Rose Flores Martinez
2.23.09
ishallwrite
rosevoc2.wordpress.com
http://rfvietnamrose09.blogspot.com
ezine articles.com
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