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I'm always in awe of poets - their ability to pare the words down, choose only the perfect ones. I haven't tried writing any poetry since school (less said the better I think about those Hendrix inspired ramblings ...) I don't know if they still get children to learn poems off by heart (we're not at that stage yet), but it's a great exercise - stretches your mind in so many ways. Learning poetry at school really switched my imagination on - reading Blake, learning about Ozymandias and Kubla Khan, meeting Wendy Cope.
TODAY'S PROMPT: This is one of my favourite exercises from 'Bones'. Grab a line from a poem you love. Take it as the first line of your piece of prose. 'When I am old and grey and full of sleep ...' from Yeats could lead on to someone looking back at their life. 'A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle ...' from Plath could take you anywhere.
TODAY'S PROMPT: This is one of my favourite exercises from 'Bones'. Grab a line from a poem you love. Take it as the first line of your piece of prose. 'When I am old and grey and full of sleep ...' from Yeats could lead on to someone looking back at their life. 'A woman is dragging her shadow in a circle ...' from Plath could take you anywhere.
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I do make my students memorize about four different poems, then I sing them a song I wrote that helps them learn all the figurative language. I make them sing along with me...it's great to see these tough sixteen year old boys actually dig the song and the beat and love cummings. "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" is quite the hit.
However, fridge poetry provides me with little moments to actually feel like I can create in this realm.
Thank you for that lovely poem. It really helped me today. :)
That's brilliant - I think poetry has a way of cutting straight to the heart of things. I remember just loving cummings when I was sixteen/seventeen (well, still do!)
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