[OTA] The Oxford Text Archive Today's Most Popular Study Guides Why do Poets write Iambic Pentameter? « PoemShape May 14, 2009 Tweaked & corrected some typos. Because it wasn’t there. During the sixteenth century, which culminated in poets like Drayton, Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, and Shakespeare, English was seen as common and vulgar – fit for record keeping. Latin was still considered, by many, to be the language of true literature. Latin was essentially the second language of every educated Elizabethan and many poets, even the much later Milton, wrote poetry in Latin rather than English. Iambic Pentameter originated as an attempt to develop a meter for the English language legitimizing English as an alternative and equal to Latin (as a language also capable of great poetry and literature). Since meter was a feature of all great Latin poetry, it was deemed essential that an equivalent be developed for the English Language. False Starts But this didn’t stop Elizabethan poets from trying. The symbols used to scan the poem reflect Spenser’s attempt to imitate the long and short syllables of Latin. T.S.
Her Own Society In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of women’s rights, whose essays on slavery and suffrage, but also on snow, flowers, and calisthenics, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. “Letter to a Young Contributor,” the article that inspired Dickinson to approach him, was a column addressed to literary débutantes and—despite his deep engagement with the Civil War—a paean to the bookish life: “There may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence,” he wrote, evoking Dickinson’s poetry without yet having seen it. “Mr. Higginson,” she began, with no endearment. “Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?” Higginson, the radical, was a pious man.
Poetry in EFL classes Today I would like to talk about poetry. Could it be useful in an EFL class? As usual, I try to imagine some activities that involve the use of different digital tools. What's poetry? At the following link you can find some great definitions (I made the above word cloud from some of these definitions using Tagul): Why study poetry in an ESL classroom? Click to enlarge my diagram Some links about the different kinds of poetry Different types of poetry: What about writing a poem? Watch the video Where to begin? Click to enlarge my map Some more tips Some useful figures of speech: find rhymes: Let's practise! Magnetic Poetry is a funny tool to write poems. You could also make a poetry magazine where you could collect all your poems!
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Read.gov | The Library of Congress The Literary Elements by Joel Pardalis on Prezi Home Alone With the Ghost of Emily Dickinson AMHERST, Mass. — Does it matter where a writer lived? Can creativity and inspiration insinuate themselves into a physical space, somehow becoming part of the atmosphere? Do you believe in ghosts? It’s impossible not to think about these things when you visit the Emily Dickinson Museum, which includes the house where Dickinson spent most of her outwardly uneventful life, her fierce mind raging away, quietly producing her profound and enigmatic poetry. On a recent afternoon, I found myself all alone in Dickinson’s bedroom, having paid $100 for the chance to spend an hour there. Because Dickinson spent so much time and was so productive here, the room has particular resonance for scholars and lovers of her poetry. “I wanted to see what it would be like to spend some time in that room,” said Lanette Ward, 70, a retired English teacher from Atlanta who admires Dickinson so much she named her daughter Emily. “Oh, yes, I felt closer to her,” Ms. “He was very mysterious about it,” Ms.
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