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FIXED FORM POETRY: IT’S EASY, YOU WIMPS

FIXED FORM POETRY: IT’S EASY, YOU WIMPS. By Hope Fletcher. WhAT DO YOU MEAN BY FIXED FORM POETRY, HOPE?. Well, idiots, it’s quite simple. “the general term covering the various kinds of poem in which the metre and rhyme scheme are governed by a prescribed pattern” –Answers.com

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FIXED FORM POETRY: IT’S EASY, YOU WIMPS

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  1. FIXED FORM POETRY: IT’S EASY, YOU WIMPS By Hope Fletcher

  2. WhAT DO YOU MEAN BY FIXED FORM POETRY, HOPE? Well, idiots, it’s quite simple. • “the general term covering the various kinds of poem in which the metreand rhyme scheme are governed by a prescribed pattern” –Answers.com • “any form of poetry where the style and the placement of words has an intended purpose and/or significance” –Hope Fletcher

  3. What is an example of a fixed form poem? Well to begin with there are • Villanelles • Sestinas • Shakespearean Sonnets • Italian Sonnets • Haikus • Odes • Closed Couplets • Quatrains • Rhyming Verses

  4. Don’t be frightened, my children. Yes, there are many different forms of fixed form poetry. But do not let that discourage you.

  5. FINDING THE PERFECT FIT The hardest thing about fixed form poetry is finding out what types of poems you are best at. And the only way to figure that out it to…

  6. Now for the break down

  7. Villanelles (My personal favorite) _________ 1 _________ 2 _________ 3 _________ _________ _________ 1 _________ _________ _________ 3 … and so on until _________ _________ _________ 1 _________ 3

  8. For example Those Girls Across the Lunch Table Those girls across the lunch table 1 Talking about their friend Don’t know how much their words hurt. 3 Laughing and giggling at Shy girl They never say a word to her face, Those girls across the lunch table 1 They don’t care that she can hear them, The Pretty girl, the Vain girl, and the Desperate girl who Don’t know how much their words hurt.3 Shy girl inside is scared that all her friends Mock her the same way as Those girls across the lunch table 1 The girls who gossip about her A Shy girl who already changed herself so much But they don’t know how much their words hurt. 3 Now Shy girl is crying all alone in her car Wanting the approval of the people she admires most, Those girls across the lunch table. 1 She drives home, all alone, wanting to hit Dying inside because Those girls across the lunch table 1 Don’t know how much their words hurt. 3

  9. SESTINAS (ALSO A LOT OF FUN) Stanza 1: A, B, C, D, E, F Stanza 2: F, A, E, B, D, C Stanza 3: C, F, D, A, B, E Stanza 4: E, C, B, F, A, D Stanza 5: D, E, A, C, F, B Stanza 6: B, D, F, E, C, A Final Tercet is ACE, ECA, BDF, or FDB.

  10. For example Advice to Jane Do you want to be beautiful? A Oh, so perfect and thin? B Be given envious glances that are so hard. C Everyone in tan, but you’ll be the one in red. Wearing the cutest clothes, not a care in the world, because you look trim and clean E My advice to you is, cease. F Forget life’s indulgences and cease F See the other girls, lean and beautiful A On the inside, be clean E Want nothing more than to be thin B Who would want a girl with cheeks rosy and red? D End all your cravings, it isn’t all too hard C Your heart may grow hard C Emotions will cling to you, but you must continue to cease F Never give up on your dream, though your eyes may be red D With jealousy, as you strive to be like the girls in the magazines, to be beautiful A But who wouldn’t want a girl to be perfect and thin? B On the outside, everything will be shiny and clean E You reputation may not become so clean, E As people hear of what you have done, their judgments will be hard C The stories of what you have done to be thin B But who cares, you have done what is good, you ceased F But are you really happy? Are you really beautiful? A With your eyes poisoned and red D In the end, who will care about you? Besides the EKG that glows so red. D You’ll probably end up in some place, so clean E But you can at least say, “Once I was beautiful,” A Even when the needles plunge into you and feel so hard C You had starved and began to cease F Ceased loving your peace of mind and began worshiping the body thin. B But you were became bone thin B With lusting that made you red D You had given up loving your imperfections, you had ceased F Trying to accept yourself and you were shuttled to the hospital to be clean E You worked for the undistinguishable perfection, which many relish as earned through work so hard C But how is that perfection beautiful? A In the end, as you cling to your state of mind, with fingers so thin, B The Devil grows happy and red D As he gains another defenseless girl, as she ceases. F

  11. Shakespearean sonnets _____ a _____ b _____ a _____ b _____ c _____ d _____ c _____ d _____ e _____ f _____ e _____ f _____ g _____ g

  12. FOR EXAMPLE Sonnet XXIV When in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes, A I all alone beweep my outcast state, B And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, A And look upon myself and curse my fate, B Wishing me like to one more rich in hope, C Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, D Desiring this man's art and that man's scope, C With what I most enjoy contented least, D Yet in these thoughts my self almost despising, E Haply I think on thee, and then my state, F (Like to the lark at break of day arising E From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven's gate, F For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings, G That then I scorn to change my state with kings. G

  13. Haikus If you don’t know what a haiku is, I am so sorry. _______ 5 syllables _________ 7 syllables _______ 5 syllables

  14. FOR EXAMPLE I like to eat cheese Except for American I do not like that.

  15. I COULD GO ON, BUT I WONT FOR THE SAKE OF TIME

  16. step one: STARTING OUT AND CHOOSING YOUR TOPIC There’s a lot of pressure to make your poetry the best and most thought provoking there is. Do not let this control what you write. YOU are the poet. YOU decide what topic needs addressing. YOU make the choice. No one else can do that for you. Once you realize this, then choose your topic. Make it special to you. Make it important. Poetry is about emphasis so emphasize.

  17. STEP TWO: CHOOSING THE RIGHT FORM This one is really hard and I can’t tell you what to do. My only advice is to write about the same topic a hundred different times in a hundred different fixed forms from a hundred different perspectives then choose your number one.

  18. FOR EXAMPLE- My take on bullying • Wilting Flowers- Sestina- Outside Perspective • My Frenemy- Villanelle- Bullied • My Frenemy Reprisal- Free Verse- Same Person as the Villanelle Version • Those Girls Across the Lunch Table- Villanelle- Peer Pressured • Advice to Jane- Sestina- Outside Perspective

  19. SHAKESPEARE’S TAKE ON LOVE MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA • Sonnet 116- “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” • Sonnet 18- “Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” • Sonnet 116- “Love is not love” • All’s Well That Ends Well- “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” • “If you love and get hurt, love more.”

  20. Step three: fix it The first draft will be crap. Throw it out. Cry. Get it out of the trash can. Bring it to someone with poetic abilities and get help. Rewrite it. Cry at how awesome it is. Show it to Mrs. White. Cry about how much red pen there is on your paper. Fix it again. Repeat until-

  21. STEP FOUR: SATISFACTION You will never be completely happy with your work. You will always find something that you hate about it. My advice to you is get over it. When someone else who analyzes it says it is good, show it off. Be proud of your creation. And if you aren’t, bring it to me and I will be proud of you for you.

  22. CHALLENGE TIME Write me a poem. NO HAIKUS, IDJITS. If you need help, I’ll be right here to help you out and figure out what you want to write about, what form, whatever. Make sure it’s fixed form. It does not have to rhyme. It does not have to be perfect. It just has to follow a pattern and we can work on the rest. NOW GO. YOU GOT DIS.

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