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- Kate
- I'm a mother with three kids under eight whose demands, squabbles and general existence take up unimaginable swathes of time. I've also secretly always fancied myself as a bit of a writer - though not with much evidence to show for it - so maybe writing this will prod me in the right direction. We'll see.
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My First Blog Award - Hooray!!
from Jen... at Starting Over
And another!
thanks Nic at Diary of a Domestically Challenged Housewife
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7 comments:
You'd wonder about people using greek metre for a germanic language, still.
It's one hell of a lot easier to crack out a poem when you've a prefix root and suffix. It's such a pity one cannot use a stave, it really would help.
Okay Kate and Vince, I'll admit it. I had to go to Google for some definitions. LOL
EnJoy your class!
Hey, Anita, I'm with you. Can you e-mail me and tell me what a stave is?
I know what iambic pentameter is but I don't know why one must be constrained by it.
And you do this because it is for you, and you need to do something for you. Honestly, you owe it to those three kids to nurture yourself as well.
Happy rhyming, or whatever. :)
Just rip something off from Shakespeare. They'll never know :)
Poetry is seen as one of the endeavors that lifts us from the muck. And it isn't that iambic pentameter constrains so much as you are constraining the words to that order. Or an animals grunts to something higher.
Nor need it be in iambic pentameter, but that lends itself to English. At least it lends itself better than others. However in English, because you are using a foot/beat/meter that really belonging to Greek then to Latin where Shakespeare got it. It is very stilted, and even more so when one speaks poems in the Received Pronunciation/Oxbridge/London or south-east England accent of our hostess.
When you hear the Poems of Horace spoken by someone that has Latin they become Carmina or songs. Think Rap spoken by an Oxford Don.
A Stave is the lines on sheet music which control the thing.
sounds great. I'd love to do a writing course. Your book will be published in no time and I very much look forward to reading it!!
О! 我的意思，张贴关于这样的事情在我的网页，你给我一个主意。干杯。
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