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Creative Writing 1
Creative Writing
Week FourWeek Four
1.1. Homework and discussionHomework and discussion
2.2. Emily Dickinson/ time and Emily Dickinson/ time and eternityeternity
3.3. Sonnet: a draftSonnet: a draft
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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson
read by Laura Lee Parrotti
In RealAudio http://wiredforbooks.org/poetry/laura_lee_parrotti.htm
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Your favorite phrases or lines
Why?
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Time and eternityEpistemic sphere/ Concepts “religious”/ divine/ dignityPhilosophical contemplationPoetic practice
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1 ONE dignity delays for all, One mitred afternoon. None can avoid this purple, None evade this crown.
Coach it insures, and footmen, Chamber and state and throng; Bells, also, in the village, As we ride grand along.
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2
What dignified attendants,What service when we pause! How loyally at partingTheir hundred hats they raise! How pomp surpassing ermine,When simple you and I Present our meek escutcheon, And claim the rank to die!
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Metaphors/ metonymy
Mitred afternoon This purple This crown Hundred hats Meek escutcheon
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On the contrary
One Dignity Delay Crown Simple
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miter
1 : a liturgical headdress worn by bishops and abbots2 a : a surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a joint is made by cutting two pieces at an angle and fitting them together b : MITER JOINT
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miter
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A toad can die of light!A toad can die of light!
A toad can die of light! A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Death is the common right Of toads and men,- Of toads and men,- Of earl and midge Of earl and midge The privilege. The privilege. Why swagger then? Why swagger then? The gnat's supremacy The gnat's supremacy Is large as thine. Is large as thine.
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(#583)
Life -- is a different Thing --So measure Wine --Naked of Flask -- Naked of Cask --Bare Rhine --Which Ruby's mine?
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Edmund SpenserHappy Ye leaves! Whenas those lily
hands,Which hold my life in their dead doi
ng might,Shall handle you, and hold in love’
s soft bands,Like captives trembling at the victor
’s sight.
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2
And happy lines! On which, with starry light,
Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,
And read the sorrows of my dying sprite, Written with tears in heart’s close
bleeding book.
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3
And happy rhymes! Bathes in the sacred brook
Of Helicon, whence she derived is, When ye behold that angel’s blessed look, My soul’s long lacked food, my heaven’s
bliss.
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Leaves, lines, and rhymes Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone,seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care Whom if ye please, I care for other none.for other none.
A conclusive couple . . .
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Your Sonnet
The first draft
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Basic rules:
Theme: time and eternity Objects River Face Music Women CalenRiver Face Music Women Calen
dar Cartridge Lamp Computer Water Dictdar Cartridge Lamp Computer Water Dictionary Cup Pencil Towel Bridge Power Plionary Cup Pencil Towel Bridge Power Plant Sponge Mirror Paper Clothes Ring Voant Sponge Mirror Paper Clothes Ring Voice drawer book. . .ice drawer book. . .
Structure: (1) aabb ccdd eeff gg (2) abab cdcd efef gg
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Iambic pentameter
da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM (weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRON
G / weak STRONG / weak STRONG)
Was-THIS the-FACE that-LAUNCH'D a-THOU sand-SHIPS
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Hendecasyllable The most usual stress schemes for an hende
casyllable are stresses on 6th and 10th syllables (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy), and on 4th, 7th and 10th syllables (Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti, Ugo Foscolo, I Sepolcri).
Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables, for instance, the main works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso.
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Homework 1. ten rhymed pairs: example right and right and
lightlight
22. keep a poetic diary: two or three . keep a poetic diary: two or three
sentences every day! ( as poetic as sentences every day! ( as poetic as
possible!)possible!)
3. reading: p.16-23 (Shakespeare’s 3. reading: p.16-23 (Shakespeare’s
sonnets)/ Do have some notes or sonnets)/ Do have some notes or
comments after reading.comments after reading.