Still watching songbirds through the glass. Maybe I’ll go into those levels more in another post, but now, on to sonnets. The book is a dictionary style reference of hundreds of forms from acrostics to tumbling verse but it begins with sections on the typographical, sonic, sensory and “ideational” levels of the poem. One place that I love to go for poetry information is Lewis Turco’s, THE NEW BOOK OF FORMS: A HANDBOOK OF POETICS. A student always recognizes that they have more to learn and that promise of new knowledge can be very motivational. I do not claim to be an expert poet, instead I am a student of poetry which is a good place to be. I thought that I’d talk a little bit more about sonnets specifically, and structure in poetry generally, and how that works for me.įirst sonnets. In it, I mentioned the unique structure of the poems in the book called a heroic sonnet. On Wednesday I posted a review (really more of a booktalk) of A WREATH FOR EMMETT TILL.
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