Author : RON S KING
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291153071
ROMANCE IN FREE VERSE
RON S KING
Romance In Free Verse
Romance In Free Verse Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Romance In Free Verse book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry
Jonathan Wordsworth
Author : Jonathan Wordsworth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141905655
The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry by Jonathan Wordsworth Pdf
The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.
Consolations
David Whyte
Author : David Whyte
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786897640
Consolations by David Whyte Pdf
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for meaning. Beginning with 'Alone' and closing with 'Withdrawal', each piece in this life-affirming book is a meditation on meaning and context, an invitation to shift and broaden our perspectives on life: pain and joy, honesty and anger, confession and vulnerability, the experience of feeling overwhelmed and the desire to run away from it all. Through this lens, procrastination may be a necessary ripening; hiding an act of freedom; and shyness something that accompanies the first stage of revelation. Consolations invites readers into a poetic and thoughtful consideration of words whose meaning and interpretation influence the paths we choose and the way we traverse them throughout our lives.
Solving the World's Problems
Robert Lee Brewer
Author : Robert Lee Brewer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1935708902
Solving the World's Problems by Robert Lee Brewer Pdf
The "World" in Robert Lee Brewer's Solving the World's Problems is a slippery world ... where chaos always hovers near, where we are (and should be) "splashing around in dark puddles." And one feels a bit dizzy reading these poems because (while always clear, always full of meaning) they come at reality slantwise so that nothing is quite the same and the reader comes away with a new way of looking at the ordinary objects and events of life. The poems are brim-full of surprises and delights, twists in the language, double-meanings of words, leaps of thought and imagination, interesting line-breaks. There are love and relationship poems, dream poems, poems of life in the modern world. And always the sense (as he writes) of "pulling the world closer to me/leaves falling to the ground/ birds flying south." I read these once, twice with great enjoyment. I will go back to them often. -Patricia Fargnoli, former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and author of Then, Something
Felicity
Mary Oliver
Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780698407473
Felicity by Mary Oliver Pdf
“A breezy, inviting collection of love poems that celebrates the divine as much as it does the natural world or human relationships . . . An eloquent celebration of simple joy from one of America’s most beloved poets.” —The Washington Post “Oliver’s poems are thoroughly convincing—as genuine, moving, and implausible as the first caressing breeze of spring.” —New York Times Book Review Mary Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, celebrates love in this collection of poems "If I have any secret stash of poems, anywhere, it might be about love, not anger," Mary Oliver once said in an interview. Finally, in her stunning new collection, Felicity, we can immerse ourselves in Oliver’s love poems. Here, great happiness abounds. Our most delicate chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver has described her work as loving the world. With Felicity she examines what it means to love another person. She opens our eyes again to the territory within our own hearts; to the wild and to the quiet. In these poems, she describes—with joy—the strangeness and wonder of human connection. As in Blue Horses, Dog Songs, and A Thousand Mornings, with Felicity Oliver honors love, life, and beauty.
Where There Is Love
T. Mark Novak
Author : T. Mark Novak
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-07
Category : Free verse
ISBN : 1598862189
Where There Is Love by T. Mark Novak Pdf
Author T. Mark Novak writes in a unique style, including love letters written in free verse poetry that express a matchless intimacy between two lovers, Cameron and Victoria. You'll be soothed, refreshed, and warmed with potential daydreams of past and present relationships with each twist and turn along the way, as the story shifts from the romantic settings of the seashore to the peaceful and serene mountain woodlots. Come visualize the innocent splendor of romance, found in that unique and remote place Where There Is Love.
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Author : Natalie Diaz
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781644451137
Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Diaz Pdf
WINNER OF THE 2021 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY FINALIST FOR THE 2020 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American Book Award Postcolonial Love Poem is an anthem of desire against erasure. Natalie Diaz’s brilliant second collection demands that every body carried in its pages—bodies of language, land, rivers, suffering brothers, enemies, and lovers—be touched and held as beloveds. Through these poems, the wounds inflicted by America onto an indigenous people are allowed to bloom pleasure and tenderness: “Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.” In this new lyrical landscape, the bodies of indigenous, Latinx, black, and brown women are simultaneously the body politic and the body ecstatic. In claiming this autonomy of desire, language is pushed to its dark edges, the astonishing dunefields and forests where pleasure and love are both grief and joy, violence and sensuality. Diaz defies the conditions from which she writes, a nation whose creation predicated the diminishment and ultimate erasure of bodies like hers and the people she loves: “I am doing my best to not become a museum / of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out. // I am begging: Let me be lonely but not invisible.” Postcolonial Love Poem unravels notions of American goodness and creates something more powerful than hope—in it, a future is built, future being a matrix of the choices we make now, and in these poems, Diaz chooses love.
Productivity for Writers
Kristina Adams
Author : Kristina Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1980254117
Productivity for Writers by Kristina Adams Pdf
More than 80% of the global population want to write a book, but the majority never do. Fear, anxiety, day jobs, family commitments, procrastination, depression, self-doubt, and the ubiquitous 'writer's block' all get in the way. But what if they didn't have to? Kristina Adams draws on her 20 years in the literary world to help you build a sustainable writing practice that adapts to your lifestyle, whatever that may be. You'll be the most productive you've ever been in no time.
A History of Free Verse
Chris Beyers
Author : Chris Beyers
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1557287023
A History of Free Verse by Chris Beyers Pdf
This book examines the most salient and misunderstood aspect of twentieth-century poetry, free verse. Although the form is generally approached as if it were one indissoluble lump, it is actually a group of differing poetic genres proceeding from much different assumptions. Separate chapters on T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, H.D., and William Carlos Williams elucidate many of these assumptions and procedures, while other chapters address more general theoretical questions and trace the continuity of Modern poetics in contemporary poetry. Taking a historical and aesthetic approach, this study demonstrates that many of the forms considered to have been invented in the Modern period actually extend underappreciated traditions. Not only does this book examine the classical influence on Modern poetry, it also features discussions of the poetics of John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Matthew Arnold, and a host of lesser-known poets. Throughout it is an investigation of the prosodic issues that free verse foregrounds, particularly those focusing on the reader's part in interpreting poetic rhythm.
Free Verse
Sarah Dooley
Author : Sarah Dooley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781101657256
Free Verse by Sarah Dooley Pdf
A moving, bittersweet tale reminiscent of Sharon Creech’s Walk Two Moons set in a West Virginia coal-mining town When her brother dies in a fire, Sasha Harless has no one left, and nowhere to turn. After her father died in the mines and her mother ran off, he was her last caretaker. They’d always dreamed of leaving Caboose, West Virginia together someday, but instead she’s in foster care, feeling more stuck and broken than ever. But then Sasha discovers family she didn’t know she had, and she finally has something to hold onto, especially sweet little Mikey, who’s just as broken as she is. Sasha even makes her first friend at school, and is slowly learning to cope with her brother’s death through writing poetry, finding a new way to express herself when spoken words just won’t do. But when tragedy strikes the mine her cousin works in, Sasha fears the worst and takes Mikey and runs, with no plans to return. In this sensitive and poignant portrayal, Sarah Dooley shows us that life, like poetry, doesn’t always take the form you intend.
How To Write a Love Poem
HowExpert,Howard Moore
Author : HowExpert,Howard Moore
Publisher : HowExpert
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781647588755
How To Write a Love Poem by HowExpert,Howard Moore Pdf
If you want to learn how to write a love poem, then check out "How To Write a Love Poem" written by a love poetry enthusiast. Love poetry can be about romantic love but far more. It can be about love of country, of a people or nation. It can be about love of ideals such as freedom and peace. Poetry can be rhymed or written in one of many recognized forms of poetry (such as a Sonnet). It can be unrhymed and follow no uniform pattern. In any topic or form, love poetry can be written by making images for the reader and then moving from image to image to express the writer’s chosen feelings and ideas. Love poetry can be inspired by experiences, the classics, legends, heroic figures, patriotism, personal ideals or even the works of other poets. The first step is to understand what love poetry is: a way to relate feelings to the art of words. It is the skillful use of words to bring ideas about feelings and emotions to a reader. One important skill is to be able to capture an image. This should be done in as few words as possible; it can also be done very effectively at the beginning of the write such as in the opening lines or first stanza. Love can mean many things in addition to romantic love: love of a place, a people, a nation; it can be love of people for various reasons. Relationships, friendships, and family are examples of love of this kind. There are unique and special bonds of love between parent and child. All of these forms of love can be the subject of a love poem. Once the image is captured there are choices for the writer to make: to rhyme, use a poetry form; use free verse, use images, or develop a metaphor so that some few words will stand for something much larger in scope. Other forms of poetry are song lyrics, Rap, and spoken poetry. These all have in common the idea of combining rhythm and words. These are even more special talents, to do blend music and/or rhythms into poetry. About the Expert Howard D. Moore is a Government Relations Consultant and writer. He was educated at Howard University and the Georgetown University School of Law. His career has included work in the U.S. Government (the U.S. Congress, the Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, and several Federal Departments). He has worked in Government Relations in the Railroad and Construction industries, an attorney, and a consultant to government and industry. He has written poetry of many kinds. He has published his work in several anthologies and online magazines, and one volume of love poetry. HowExpert publishes quick 'how to' guides on all topics from A to Z by everyday experts.
Anatomy of a Premise Line
Jeff Lyons
Author : Jeff Lyons
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317558958
Anatomy of a Premise Line by Jeff Lyons Pdf
If a story is going to fail, it will do so first at the premise level. Anatomy of a Premise Line: How to Master Premise and Story Development for Writing Success is the only book of its kind to identify a seven-step development process that can be repeated and applied to any story idea. This process will save you time, money, and potentially months of wasted writing. So whether you are trying to write a feature screenplay, develop a television pilot, or just trying to figure out your next story move as a writer, this book gives you the tools you need to know which ideas are worth pursuing. In addition to the 7-step premise development tool, Anatomy of a Premise Line also presents a premise and idea testing methodology that can be used to test any developed premise line. Customized exercises and worksheets are included to facilitate knowledge transfer, so that by the end of the book, you will have a fully developed premise line, log line, tagline, and a completed premise-testing checklist. Here is some of what you will learn inside: Ways to determine whether or not your story is a good fit for print or screen Case studies and hands-on worksheets to help you learn by participating in the process Tips on how to effectively work through writer’s block A companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/lyons) with additional worksheets, videos, and interactive tools to help you learn the basics of perfecting a killer premise line
The Prophet
Kahlil Gibran
Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180946506
The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf
The Prophet by Khalil Gibran is a timeless masterpiece that transcends borders and cultures with its profound wisdom and poetic beauty. Set in the fictional town of Orphalese, the narrative unfolds as Almustafa, a revered prophet, prepares to depart after living among the people for twelve years. Through a series of poetic discourses, Almustafa shares his insights on various aspects of life, including love, marriage, work, freedom, and spirituality. Each chapter delves into the depths of the human soul, offering timeless truths and profound reflections that resonate with readers across generations. The Prophet has been translated into over 100 languages, making it one of the most translated books of all time. It has never been out of print since its first publication in 1923, constantly finding new readers who resonate with its message. KAHLIL GIBRAN [1883-1931] was a renowned Lebanese-American poet, philosopher, and artist. He is best known for his masterpiece, The Prophet, which has been translated into over fifty languages and continues to inspire readers worldwide. Gibran's works explore themes of love, spirituality, and the human condition, blending Eastern mysticism with Western philosophy.
The Origins of Free Verse
Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith
Author : Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472085654
The Origins of Free Verse by Henry Tompkins Kirby-Smith Pdf
Argues that free verse has deep historical roots, and traces them, from Milton to contemporary poetry
The Poetry Home Repair Manual
Ted Kooser
Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0803259786
The Poetry Home Repair Manual by Ted Kooser Pdf
Recently appointed as the new U. S. Poet Laureate, Ted Kooser has been writing and publishing poetry for more than forty years. In the pages of The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser brings those decades of experience to bear. Here are tools and insights, the instructions (and warnings against instructions) that poets—aspiring or practicing—can use to hone their craft, perhaps into art. Using examples from his own rich literary oeuvre and from the work of a number of successful contemporary poets, the author schools us in the critical relationship between poet and reader, which is fundamental to what Kooser believes is poetry’s ultimate purpose: to reach other people and touch their hearts. Much more than a guidebook to writing and revising poems, this manual has all the comforts and merits of a long and enlightening conversation with a wise and patient old friend—a friend who is willing to share everything he’s learned about the art he’s spent a lifetime learning to execute so well.