Module 1: Wrap-up and Looking Ahead

Wrap-up

In looking at poetry, beginning with free-verse, we've started to see how imagery, symbolism, and allusion work. Next, we'll be looking at ways to trick our mind into thinking in a nonlinear fashion (meaning, tricking it into creating art), to surprise the reader (and ourselves!). For now, I'll keep you posted about what to read, but I'd suggest reading as much free verse poetry as you can: a quick Googling can yield a lot of great authors to love and emulate, and here's another start:

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Read, and read, and read again until you find what you love! Then, read everything that author has, and see how you can try to incorporate their style into your own!

 

Looking Ahead

Since poetry simply cannot be a vocabulary-bank of terms to learn then plop into a formula, we have to look at some other nuanced ways authors use these, and many other terms, to better get at the heart of art: saying the most impactful thing to the largest audience in the least space possible. We'll be looking at haiku, metered poetry, a few lyrical odes, some humorous writing, and then some classical-form poetry for our major project: a Sestina (with a challenge: to use meter and rhyme).