Creative Writing

Creative Writing Week Four Homework and discussion Emily Dickinson/ time and eternity Sonnet: a draft Creative Writing

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson read by Laura Lee Parrotti In RealAudiohttp://wiredforbooks.org/poetry/laura_lee_parrotti.htm Creative Writing

Your favorite phrases or lines Why? Creative Writing

Time and eternity Epistemic sphere/ Concepts “religious”/ divine/ dignity Philosophical contemplation Poetic practice Creative Writing

1 • ONE dignity delays for all, • One mitred afternoon. • None can avoid this purple, • None evade this crown. • Coach it insures, and footmen, • Chamber and state and throng; • Bells, also, in the village, • As we ride grand along. Creative Writing

2 • What dignified attendants, • What service when we pause! • How loyally at parting • Their hundred hats they raise! • How pomp surpassing ermine, • When simple you and I • Present our meek escutcheon, • And claim the rank to die! Creative Writing

Metaphors/ metonymy • Mitred afternoon • This purple • This crown • Hundred hats • Meek escutcheon Creative Writing

On the contrary  • One  • Dignity  • Delay  • Crown  • Simple  Creative Writing

miter • 1: a liturgical headdress worn by bishops and abbots2 a: a surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a joint is made by cutting two pieces at an angle and fitting them together b: MITER JOINT Creative Writing

miter Creative Writing

A toad can die of light! A toad can die of light! Death is the common right Of toads and men,- Of earl and midge • The privilege. • Why swagger then? • The gnat's supremacy • Is large as thine. Creative Writing

(#583) • Life -- is a different Thing --So measure Wine --Naked of Flask -- Naked of Cask --Bare Rhine --Which Ruby's mine? Creative Writing

Edmund Spenser • Happy Ye leaves! Whenas those lily hands, • Which hold my life in their dead doing might, • Shall handle you, and hold in love’s soft bands, • Like captives trembling at the victor’s sight. Creative Writing

2 • And happy lines! On which, with starry light, • Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look, • And read the sorrows of my dying sprite, • Written with tears in heart’s close bleeding book. Creative Writing

3 • And happy rhymes! Bathes in the sacred brook • Of Helicon, whence she derived is, • When ye behold that angel’s blessed look, • My soul’s long lacked food, my heaven’s bliss. Creative Writing

Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone, Whom if ye please, I care for other none. A conclusive couple . . . Creative Writing

Your Sonnet The first draft Creative Writing

Basic rules: • Theme: time and eternity • Objects  River Face Music Women Calendar Cartridge Lamp Computer Water Dictionary Cup Pencil Towel Bridge Power Plant Sponge Mirror Paper Clothes Ring Voice drawer book. . . • Structure: • (1) aabb ccdd eeff gg • (2) abab cdcd efef gg Creative Writing

Iambic pentameter • da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM • (weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG / weak STRONG) • Was-THIS the-FACE that-LAUNCH'D a-THOU sand-SHIPS Creative Writing

Hendecasyllable • The most usual stress schemes for an hendecasyllable are stresses on 6th and 10th syllables (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita, Dante Alighieri, first line of The Divine Comedy), and on 4th, 7th and 10th syllables (Un incalzar di cavalli accorrenti, Ugo Foscolo, I Sepolcri). • Most classical Italian poems are composed of hendecasyllables, for instance, the main works by Dante, Francesco Petrarca, Ludovico Ariosto, and Torquato Tasso. Creative Writing

Homework • 1. ten rhymed pairs: example right and light • 2. keep a poetic diary: two or three sentences every day! ( as poetic as possible!) • 3. reading: p.16-23 (Shakespeare’s sonnets)/ Do have some notes or comments after reading. Creative Writing

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