10 poems to read on National Poetry Day In honor of National Poetry Day, TED-Ed asked writing teachers at the San Francisco Writers Grotto to recommend their favorite poems worth sharing. Below, a short poetry reading list for TED-Ed learners of all ages. Constance Hale, author of Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose, recommends: “Design” by Robert Frost For younger readers, I would go with some of the easier Robert Frost poems, which would set the stage for the more complex ones. Caroline Paul, author of Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology, recommends: Billy Collins, in general Poetry is about concision, beauty — and the sudden swerve that tweaks the reality we thought we knew. “Percy and Books” by Mary Oliver I love the way Mary Oliver pokes fun at herself, realizing that poetry is paltry next to a day romping about in nature. Ethan Watters, author of Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche, recommends: Grace Rubenstein, multimedia editor of TED Books, recommends:
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Haiku Society of America Poems by poetic form Skip to mainSkip to navigation Abcedarian The abecedarian is a poetic form from pre-Biblical times. Acrostic An acrostic is a poem or song or any piece of writing in which (usually) the first letter of each line (or sentence, or paragraph) spells out a word or a message. Alexandrine The alexandrine is a line of six iambic feet; one foot longer than the iambic pentameter. Alliteration Alliteration refers to the use of similar sounds to begin a sequence of words, e.g. spick and span, kith and kin, jump for joy. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of similar vowel sounds in neighbouring words, to create the effect of rhyme within phrases or lines of verse. Ballad Ballads are narrative folk-songs or folk poems made up of simple four-line stanzas, usually rhyming abcb. Blank Verse Blank verse is a type of verse with a regular metre (usually iambic pentameter) but no rhyme, hence ‘blank’. Bush ballads Caesura Elegy Epic Free verse Haibun Haiku Iambic foot Ode Onomatopoeia Parody Prose-poem Rhyming Satire Sonnet
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Cure writer's block with writing prompts - writing tips character name generator Jack Kerouac's Essentials of Spontaneous Prose If possible write "without consciousness" in semi-trance (as Yeats' later "trance writing") allowing subconscious to admit in own uninhibited interesting necessary and so "modern" language... 66 Writing Experiments 5. William S. The cutup is a mechanical method of juxtaposition in which Burroughs literally cuts up passages of prose by himself and other writers and then pastes them back together at random... poetryreincarnations Heres a virtual movie of the great poet ,artist and mystic William Blake reading his wonderful profound almost pre-Dickensian poem "London" London is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Experience in 1794. It is one of the few poems in Songs of Experience which does not have a corresponding poem in Songs of Innocence. As with most of Blake's poetry, there are several critical interpretations of London. Kind Regards Jim Clark All rights are reserved on this video recording copyright Jim Clark 2010 London........ I wander through each chartered street, Near where the chartered Thames does flow, And mark in every face I meet, Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
The Shearers' Cooks: How Dick and Cheryl Duggan keep a team of sheep shearers well fed Updated Five days a week for most of the year, sometimes toiling in primitive kitchens, often in remote districts of Australia's sheep belt, far from towns and supermarkets, Dick and Cheryl Duggan prepare up to 100 meals a day. The Duggans are shearers' cooks. Few jobs are as physically demanding as shearing sheep. "It astounds me still even sometimes because you get people that you just can't fill up," says Cheryl, who has seen a great deal in 46 years of catering for shearing teams. Husband Dick has spent 67 years in the shearing industry, starting as a shearer at just 14. "I told them I was 18 of course. He was a gun, who won 108 shearing championships, earning him the name "King". Currently the couple are in the Riverina region of southern New South Wales. Here at Pooginook Station, a famous Merino stud, there are eight shearers to feed and the same number of shed hands — the presser, woolclassers, roustabouts and a shearing contractor. What's on the menu? No signs of slowing down
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The Evolution of Poetry!!! 24/7 A poem about apocalyptic climate change and how it will affect us all - even the wealthy, whose money will be of no value if society collapses. Text of poem below: The hooves, they drummed a devil's tattoo Upon the woodland path.The mechanical horse, it was angel white And never had had a sin in its mind.The rider, he was the admired man And he saw no end to his sight --A captain of industry with bags of golden leaves That he ripped from the treesAs he kicked his horse to ride on ride on To the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm of hooves;The gathering of leaves and the rhythm of hooves."I built this horse for riding," said he. "This horse, I built for riding." But the weather-clerk stepped across his path:"Stop!" "No! To the rhythm, the rhythm, the rhythm of hooves.To the gathering of leaves and the rhythm of hooves." But one mile on, people cluttered his path Crying "We've seen the darkening skies! "But it's not just me," the rider said. by Mike Galsworthy For more by Mike Galsworthy Also
What caused the French Revolution? - Tom Mullaney We view these events at a distance of more than two hundred years. But one contemporary observer was Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and future US president. Jefferson served as the US minister to France in the 1780s. Read what Jefferson thought about King Louis XVI. The Third Estate’s decision to break from the Estates-General was an enormously significant event on the path to revolution. The revolution culminated with the rise of Napoleon. The French Revolution continues to be a powerful moment in human history. Lastly, Nick Hanauer argues we are living in a time where “the pitchforks are coming.”