Dept. of How Do I Do This
Relearning Poetry
I have written poetry in my time; mostly blank verse and the occasional ABABADADEE sonnet, including this one.
It's been years, though; my creative juices appear to have most recently watered my fanfic rather than poetry. And by "most recently" I mean thelast few years.
But somewhere in the copious spare time I had between reading the increasingly long, monstrously fluffy and feathery reply strings below my Oct. 6 Good Omens post and trying to keep up with daily work, I read a post by maia, in which she wished someone would write a Good Omens poem, one done in terza rima, with alternating trochaic and iambic tetrameter.
Oddly, this post (which read to me in large part like phrasing in a foreign language) coincided with my own growing desire to a) start writing poetry again and b) learn more about formal types of poetry, particularly sonnets.
She suggested I look for Stephen Fry's book 'The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within." On a whim, I decided to check Chicago's library system and sure enough it was there. So I have it for a couple of weeks, and I'll take a dive into it. On the other hand, I'm also trying to take a dive into the scholarly review of fandom's creative works culture, and that's not going very fast. We shall see. Still, it's an interesting feeling to want to challenge myself. This entry was originally posted at https://kaffyr.dreamwidth.org/744426.html?mode=reply, where there are currently
comments. You can comment there or here, but prefer to read over on DW. You can comment there using open ID if you don't have a DW account.
I have written poetry in my time; mostly blank verse and the occasional ABABADADEE sonnet, including this one.
It's been years, though; my creative juices appear to have most recently watered my fanfic rather than poetry. And by "most recently" I mean thelast few years.
But somewhere in the copious spare time I had between reading the increasingly long, monstrously fluffy and feathery reply strings below my Oct. 6 Good Omens post and trying to keep up with daily work, I read a post by maia, in which she wished someone would write a Good Omens poem, one done in terza rima, with alternating trochaic and iambic tetrameter.
Oddly, this post (which read to me in large part like phrasing in a foreign language) coincided with my own growing desire to a) start writing poetry again and b) learn more about formal types of poetry, particularly sonnets.
She suggested I look for Stephen Fry's book 'The Ode Less Traveled: Unlocking the Poet Within." On a whim, I decided to check Chicago's library system and sure enough it was there. So I have it for a couple of weeks, and I'll take a dive into it. On the other hand, I'm also trying to take a dive into the scholarly review of fandom's creative works culture, and that's not going very fast. We shall see. Still, it's an interesting feeling to want to challenge myself. This entry was originally posted at https://kaffyr.dreamwidth.org/744426.html?mode=reply, where there are currently
comments. You can comment there or here, but prefer to read over on DW. You can comment there using open ID if you don't have a DW account.