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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The iambic pentameter owes its pre-eminence in English poetry to its genius for variation. Good blank verse does not sound like a series of identically measured lines. It sounds like a series of subtle variations on the same theme.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
The voice is raised, and that is where poetry begins. And even today, in the prolonged aftermath of modernism, in places where 'open form' or free verse is the orthodoxy, you will find a memory of that raising of the voice in the term 'heightened speech.'
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
- Embarked
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet. But the thing you must try to write, when you do so, is a real sonnet, and not a practice sonnet.
- Interested
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody really knows whether they are a poet. I knew I was interested from the age of 15.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer writing in the mornings, so to that extent I have a routine. I do reading and other things in the afternoon.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
A really interesting and happy time was when I first went to Florence as a student and studied Italian. I was living in a pensione on an allowance of £40 a month, which was princely. I did a lot of work and enjoyed myself immensely.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1960s was a period when writers in the West began to be aware of the extraordinary eloquence and popular attraction of the Russian poets such as Yevtushenko and Voznesensky - oppositional figures who could draw crowds. The Russian poets recited from memory as a matter of course.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020