How to Write Poetry

The other posting was not the whole How to Write series, silly me :|

The best poets read widely

What makes a poem?

You need to learn the rules in order to break them

A poem is artificial, artful. It is not simply a mirror

A good poetic structure protects the essence of the poem

Developing & editing

The form of a poem is more dynamic than that of a puzzle

Read your words aloud, even if you have only a few of them

Poems are able to express the things we find hardest to say

The beauty of a poem, like the beauty of an equation, lies in its precision

A poem must contain itself, and all the reader needs

Some forms

Checklist

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Stephen Halliwell GREEK LAUGHTER A study of cultural psychology from Homer to early Christianity In the third century BC, when Roman ambassadors were negotiating with the Greek city of Tarentum, an ill-judged laugh put paid to any hope of peace. Ancient writers disagree about the exact cause of the mirth, but they agree that Greek laughter was the final straw in driving the Romans to war. One account points the finger at the bad Greek of the leading Roman ambassador, Postumius. It was so ungrammatical and strangely accented that the Tarentines could not conceal their amusement. The historian Dio Cassius, by contrast, laid the blame on the Romans’ national dress. “So far from receiving them decently”, he wrote, “the Tarentines laughed at the Roman toga among other things. It was the city garb, which we use in the Forum. And the envoys had put this on, whether to make a suitably dignified impression or out of fear – thinking that it would make the Tarentines respect them. But in fact g...
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