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Poesis*: Poetry, Medium and Message
Posted by: livreordie on: August 6, 2011
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By Ernie Lepore New York Times Here is a question that has been confounding or even infuriating poets for eons. So what is your poem about? (If you happen to personally know any poets, you may even have empirical evidence of this.) That frustration has little if anything to do with the supposed stormy temperaments [...]
poesis* ESSAY SPECIAL
Posted by: livreordie on: July 24, 2009
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poesis* will be publishing a series of essays and guides for you, cherished student of Literature, to pick up “what to write” and “how to write” a comparative essay on two poems. As your chief writer-editor is caught in a web of administrative and non-teaching duties, publication will be sporadic and the guides will be [...]
poesis* EFFECT
Posted by: livreordie on: June 22, 2009
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Issue Seven Cause and effect: the concept that an action will produce or trigger a certain response to the original action. That is to say, an “effect” is the result of a certain course of action. In poetry, the “action” is the poet’s choice of a certain style, device, technique, method or whatever you want [...]
poesis* SOUND
Posted by: livreordie on: June 14, 2009
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Issue Six Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky! Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool? Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full! Why do nurs’ry rhymes sound so cool? You could ev’n write one ’bout dog poo! Listen, [...]
poesis* FORM
Posted by: livreordie on: June 5, 2009
Issue Five While form in its most general sense actually refers to the style, technique, method, manner, fashion, mode of writing (now that’s why formal writing refers to text that “falls into an accepted form”!), we shall refer to form, as it is used commonly used in poetry, to describe structure (stanzas, lines, arrangement), rhythm [...]
poesis* STYLE
Posted by: livreordie on: May 29, 2009
Issue Two “Forget about your house of cards / And I’ll do mine”. “The infrastructure will collapse / Voltage spikes / Throw your keys in the bowl / Kiss your husband goodnight.” Poetry can, no doubt, be daunting to understand, let alone analyse, compare and respond in 60 minutes. You will see below this body [...]
poesis* BASICS
Posted by: livreordie on: May 27, 2009
Issue One Welcome to the maiden issue of poesis*, a valiant attempt by your Literature teacher to revive the readership of this very blog in a series of, as is obvious, blog posts (masquerading as printed ‘issues’). Despite the inept choice of what is really a trigger-happy medium (post! now!), poesis* is designed as a [...]
poesis* LANGUAGE
Posted by: livreordie on: May 30, 2009
Issue Three In this issue, we take a more didactic approach. Provided below is a list of linguistic features that would help you analyse the language of both prose and poetry. This is really more applicable to close-reading Wuthering Heights and The Birthday Party but will come in serviceable, especially in set poems that demand [...]