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- Posted: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:50:42 +0000
Well, you asked for it, and you got it. Imagery will be the concentration for this exercise.
Imagery is the poetic reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is a group of words that create a mental image. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance.
For those that want more information on imagery, I found these sites helpful and interesting:
http://nm.essortment.com/howtounderstan_rhuk.htm
http://members.aol.com/lucyhardng/pointers/essays.htm#metsimil
But this particular exercise is going to pick at imagery. We're going to hone our imagery skills, and write poems using imagery in way that may be new.
Here's what Have Your Pi had to say:
The contest after the exercise will examine the poets who used their best knowledge of these aspects:
Do's
1. Concrete imagery, "true" images:
2. Extended metaphor and/or simile (that means a central idea that is presented in the start of the poem, and continues throughout)
Don'ts:
1. Don't make us read whispy, stringy metaphors. PLEASE.
2. Stay away from abstractions. Narrative poetry might be the key, if you can't stop the abstraction bug.
Okay, ladies and gents, I am giving you a lot of room to move on this one. You can choose a previous form or use meter if you want, but it's not required. I would like to see us watching our rhythm, perhaps being syllable counters even though we're not iambic? pirate
Judges will not be announced this time, but know that they are watching. The contest prize will be announced at a later time, but it will be big again. Please don't do this to get gold. Do this to LEARN, okay?
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Imagery is the poetic reference to the five senses (sight, touch, smell, hearing, and taste). Essentially, imagery is a group of words that create a mental image. Such images can be created by using figures of speech such as similes, metaphors, personification, and assonance.
For those that want more information on imagery, I found these sites helpful and interesting:
http://nm.essortment.com/howtounderstan_rhuk.htm
http://members.aol.com/lucyhardng/pointers/essays.htm#metsimil
But this particular exercise is going to pick at imagery. We're going to hone our imagery skills, and write poems using imagery in way that may be new.
Here's what Have Your Pi had to say:
Have Your Pi
I think we've produced such a strong reaction to the shitty expression of emotion common in teenage poetry that we've started to bury ourselves in the sand of metaphors. (Oh ho ho...) We've acknowledged that extreme; now we need to back up.
The contest after the exercise will examine the poets who used their best knowledge of these aspects:
Do's
1. Concrete imagery, "true" images:
Armor Felix
I think it's a common trap to use four words and dance around the one word we really mean. This might relate back to the concrete imagery actually, its easy to create a bunch of whispy metaphors, but finding the appropriate tool for the job is a whole 'nother story.
2. Extended metaphor and/or simile (that means a central idea that is presented in the start of the poem, and continues throughout)
Don'ts:
1. Don't make us read whispy, stringy metaphors. PLEASE.
2. Stay away from abstractions. Narrative poetry might be the key, if you can't stop the abstraction bug.
Okay, ladies and gents, I am giving you a lot of room to move on this one. You can choose a previous form or use meter if you want, but it's not required. I would like to see us watching our rhythm, perhaps being syllable counters even though we're not iambic? pirate
Judges will not be announced this time, but know that they are watching. The contest prize will be announced at a later time, but it will be big again. Please don't do this to get gold. Do this to LEARN, okay?
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