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Sum06: Aboriginal PoetryPoetry ‘Round the World - Literature from Aboriginal Australia by the-beastie.Sum06: Aboriginal Poetry
The poetry of Aboriginal Australia is an ancient art form of socio-political attitudes, cultural symbolism and a traditionally oral rhythmic structure and form. It is the oldest continuing poetic form in the world, dating back thousands of years before Egypt’s first lyrical hieroglyphic structures. Aboriginal poetry is often narrative and deals with a range of subjects including community, education, celebrations of nature, identity and the injustice of years of forced colonisation.
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Sum06: The Novel in PoemsThe Novel in Poems by bananaprincess.Sum06: The Novel in Poems
In April of 2005, I started writing a series of poems that followed a narrative. I was having a marvelous time with it, but couldn't put a name on what I was doing. A concept album, but with poems? Then came the fateful day, which like so many fateful days, occurred in a used bookstore. I was browsing the poetry section and found a book by Vikram Seth. What caught my eye wasn't the book itself, but the list of his other works, which included something called a "novel in verse."
The novel in verse has ancient roots. Epic
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Sum06: E. E. CummingsDO NOT TRY TO UNDERSTAND IT, in which we learn about EE Cummings. by xclockwork.Sum06: E. E. Cummings
"Do not try to understand it. Let it try to understand you." - Edward Estlin Cummings, on his play "him"
The sky was candy luminous in Cambridge, Massachusetts when EE Cummings was born, capitals and all, on the fourteenth of October 1894. He had all four limbs and two given names, Edward Estlin, and as soon as ten years after his birth he would be writing poetry, encouraged by a liberal family. Early on, he showed hints of the unorthodox style he would become famous for, but throughout his life a majo
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Sum06: Sapphic VersePoetic Form: Sapphic VerseSum06: Sapphic Verse
Written by the-beastie.
The Sapphic is one of the most famous of classical stanzas. It was named after the celebrated Greek poet Sappho (c.630 - 570 BC) and like other Greek poetry, it is unrhymed.
The stanza is comprised of four lines. The first three of these are written in trochaic pentameter except for the third foot, which is a dactyl. The fourth line has only two metrical feet: a dactyl and a trochee.
+ A trochee is a metrical foot consisting of two syllables, with the stress lying on the first; for
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