 Poetry: March 19, 2014 Issue [#6213] |
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This week: Location, Location, Location Edited by: Red Writing Hood <3  
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“When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.”
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824)
“It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
John Ruskin (1819-1900)
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Location, Location, Location: Poetry terms dealing with settings
I was raised on a farm in Michigan. I have incredible memories of huge, juicy blackberries in the patch on the back forty, riding my bike in the hay field where I discovered an Indian arrowhead, and climbing the apple trees by the garden. I’ve also lived in urban and suburban areas and have great memories of those, too.
Depending on the setting, and sometimes even the events going on in that setting, poetry has a name for it.
The most common is the pastoral. These poems are about the countryside and country life. Lesser known is the city poem or urban poem. The po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y calls it an urbanic (Drury, 61). My own suggestion, as I haven’t seen or heard of it yet, is to add suburban poetry aka surbanic poetry to this list.
Pastoral Poem
Pastorals tend to tout the glories of country living. Sometimes because poets wanted to share the beauty of this kind of life, other times to satirically shed a light on things that were in sharp contrast to it (New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 885). Turco’s Book of Forms says, it’s “the exaltation of the natural over the cultivated person, and of the country and rustic life over the town and city” (Turco, 138). This doesn't mean that you need to stick to the only the good parts of country living. Share the bad and ugly, too.
There are pastoral subtopics too. They are: bucolic, eclogue/amoebaean, georgic, and idyll. Many times they are used interchangeably. Different sources mention different things about each, and rarely agree. Here are the most agreed upon distinctions of each:
Bucolic - Mostly about shepherds.
Eclogue/amoebaean - Dialogue between one (usually eclogue) or more people (usually amoebaean).
Georgic – Farming poem; leans towards how-to.
Idyll – Can mix up several items (ex. dialogue, and shepherds).
MUST HAVES
--Topic: Country living at its finest.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Line count is up to you or dependent on the form you choose, if one is selected.
--Meter: Your choice, or dependent on the form.
--Number of stanzas: Your choice, or dependent on the form, if chosen.
--Rhyme or not, it’s up to you, or dependent on the form.
City/Urban Poem or Urbanic
MUST HAVES
--Topic: All about city living.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Line count is up to you or dependent on the form you choose, if one is selected.
--Meter: Your choice, or dependent on the form.
--Number of stanzas: Your choice, or dependent on the form, if chosen.
--Rhyme or not, it’s up to you, or dependent on the form.
Suburban poem or Suburbanic
MUST HAVES
--Topic: All about living in the suburbs.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Line count is up to you or dependent on the form you choose, if one is selected.
--Meter: Your choice, or dependent on the form.
--Number of stanzas: Your choice, or dependent on the form, if chosen.
--Rhyme or not, it’s up to you, or dependent on the form.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Drury, John. the po.e.try dic.tion.ar.y. 2nd edition. Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books, 2006. Print.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
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