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My poetry lecture notes.
Title: My poetry lecture notes.
Category: Literature / Poetry
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My poetry lecture notes.
--Poetry--
Overview:
What is Poetry
Why do we study it?
Types of poetry
- Poetic forms
- Stanza
- Closed Form
# Italian Sonnet
# English Sonnet
- Villanelle
- Haiku
WHAT IS POETRY?
Is it the best words in the best order?
Or a place where thinking and feeling is one?
An opportunity to see something ordinary as extraordinary
A gift, - like "Different Kinds of sunlight" - D.H.Lawrence -
WHY DO WE STUDY IT?
For the pleasure
For the evocative role …showed first 75 words of 672 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 672 total…achieving a wistful yearning and powerful insight through extreme brevity - the essence of Zen
Zen = ultimate achievement of a monk
In Japan they have even replaced the impersonal and unhelpful Microsoft error messages with haiku's, such as:
Serious error
All shortcuts have disappeared
Screen. Mind. Both are blank
And:
First snow, then silence
This thousand-dollar screen dies
So beautifully
This emphasizes the importance of playfulness in poetry; no one wants to read a boring poem.
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