Poetry collection Draftd (3 poems)
Poetry Assignment: Poetry Collection
Poetry Collection Draft
Taking into consideration the different poetic examples in the reading assignments, you will explore the process of drafting and revising a short collection of poems. Please compose three poems. The first poem will be based off of one of the styles found in Chapter 28 in Three Genres. The second poem will focus on making a list of ten images you have seen in the last 24 hours. From this list, you will develop a poem that incorporates them in some way. The third poem focuses on free verse style (see Chapter 34 in Three Genres.)
There are no length requirements for these pieces aside from the examples set in the readings. Pay particular attention to both content and structure. In poetry, the balance between these two represents the foundation of the creative process. Choose the best words for what you want to convey – don’t settle.
Poems in this assignment should focus on maintaining the balance of content and structure, word choice, line breaks, rhyme, and meter. The secondary focus should be the ordering of the three pieces and the presentation as a collection. Consider how these poems work together even if they seem to be striving towards doing different things.
The three poems have no specific required length, but should be substantial for the intended purpose.
the poems should take poetic form such as poetic lines, relying on images rather than on abstractions(similes, metaphors, and symbols), cultivating the sound of words, rhythm, and draw on the connotative meaning of words instead of denotative (density).
Book: Three Genres: The Writing of Literay Prose, Poems, and Plays 9th ed
Written by Stephen Minot with Diane Thiel
Chapter 27: What makes a poem?- poetic line, use of images, sound of words, rhythms of language, and Density
Chapter 28: Plunging In- Selection of Poems -This chapter is a collection of poems that demonstrate poetic conventions. There are examples of sonnets, haiku, and villanelle. Poems written by Robert Frost, John Updike, William Stafford, Carole Oles, Molly Peacock, William Shakespeare, Lucille Cliffton, Chora, Etheridge Knight, Clement Long, and E.E. Cummings and more.
Chapter 29: Sources – Where Poems Come From – Drawing on Friends and Family, Probing your true feelings, Exploring Ambivalence, Playing with Language, Avoiding Pitfalls, 6 Ways to Jump-Start a New Poem
Chapter 30: The Impact of Images – Impact of Strong Nouns, Images as Figurative of Speach, The image as symbol, Building Image clusters
Chapter 31: Using the Sound of Language: Non-rhyming devices of sound, Rhymes-True and Slant, Achieving subtlety in Sound, Sound as Meaning, Training your ear
Chapter 32: Traditional Rhythms: rhythm of stressed words, Syllabics: The counting of syllables, From Syllabics to Meter, the importance of line length, Keeping Meter Subtle
Chapter 33: Stanzas – The choice of fixed forms: Rhyming couplets-uses and risks, Triplets- rhyming and not, Quatrains and the Ballad Tradition, Rhyme Royal, Sonnets-English and Italian, The Rondeau, The Pantoum, The Villanelle, The Appeal of Metered Verse
Chapter 34: Free Verse-Creating Unique Forms: Freedom of Fixed Forms, Visual Patterns-what you see on the page, Auditory Patterns-what you hear in the reading, The Poetic Line vs the Sentence, Developing Your Own Rhythms
Chapter 35: A Sense of Oreder: Contrast and Comparisons, Shifts in Mood, Opinions and Arguments, Poetic Narratives, Controlling the Image, The Passage of Time
Chapter 36: Varieties of Tone: Reflective Tones, Loving Tones, The Wide Range of Humor, Satire-Attack by Ridicule, Three Types of Irony, You and Your Persona, Examining your True Feelings
Answer preview
1st poem-Haiku style- The Catbird
Today a new dawn
Flying high chirping sweetly
Chasing butterflies
Spreading wings open
Tomorrow is no worry
I will chase insects…
(400 words)