James Galvan
English 306
Steve Pett
Read: Poet’s Companion: “Images,” p. 85 [RR]
1. What, exactly is an image? For most people, “image” carries the
meaning of a visual picture, and it’s true that many images are visual. Put
simply, though, an image in poetry is language that calls up a physical
sensation, appealing to us at the level of any of our five senses.
2. Poets need to keep all five senses – and possibly a few more – on
continual alert, ready to translate the world through their bodies, to
reinvent it in language.
3. Images are seductive in themselves, but they’re not merely scenery, or
shouldn’t be.
4. The poet enlivens his images with the use of color: “gold
whirlpool,” “gold sea,” “full of the gold that took him.”
5. Artists have used this trick: adding a bit of red to green to make the
green appear brighter.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Marathon
James Galvan
English 306
Steve Pett
Poem two: Something that changed about your body since you were born
Trying my best
Not to fall to the ground
With small and shaky legs
First steps become sound
My steps turned to strides
Now tall and strong
With friends on my sides
The way ahead still is long.
English 306
Steve Pett
Poem two: Something that changed about your body since you were born
Trying my best
Not to fall to the ground
With small and shaky legs
First steps become sound
My steps turned to strides
Now tall and strong
With friends on my sides
The way ahead still is long.
Love Poem
James Galvan
English 306
Steve Pett
Poem one: love poem without the word love
You have a lot of curves
Yet you get on my nerves.
You look like a rose
Though you have a crooked nose.
You remind me if a pleasant breeze
But when I see you I begin to sneeze.
You move like a gazelle which is swell
Until you just recently fell down the well
English 306
Steve Pett
Poem one: love poem without the word love
You have a lot of curves
Yet you get on my nerves.
You look like a rose
Though you have a crooked nose.
You remind me if a pleasant breeze
But when I see you I begin to sneeze.
You move like a gazelle which is swell
Until you just recently fell down the well
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
James Galvan
English 306
Steve Pett
Poet’s Companion “Writing and Knowing” [RR]
1. There are no real rules for line breaks.
2. Denise Levertov says that the pause at the end of a line is equal to a
half-comma.
3. Say the word “lily.” You should hear it as a stressed syllable,
followed by an unstressed one.
4. “Do you break your poems into lines, or compose be the line?”
5. At some point, if you want to make memorable poems, you’ll need to get
a feel for the line, for what it does when it is very short, very long, and
every place inbetween
English 306
Steve Pett
Poet’s Companion “Writing and Knowing” [RR]
1. There are no real rules for line breaks.
2. Denise Levertov says that the pause at the end of a line is equal to a
half-comma.
3. Say the word “lily.” You should hear it as a stressed syllable,
followed by an unstressed one.
4. “Do you break your poems into lines, or compose be the line?”
5. At some point, if you want to make memorable poems, you’ll need to get
a feel for the line, for what it does when it is very short, very long, and
every place inbetween
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