Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Poetry - Sound draft

Choose one of the poems you have written in the past few weeks. You will be asked to create a second draft of this poem.

For the second draft (please label it as a second draft), you will focus on SOUND and sound imagery.

You may wish to do any of the following to change or revise your poem:

1. Put your poem into a metrical pattern or create a syllabic pattern
2. Use alliteration, assonance, consonance, or rhyme to create a euphonic or cacophonic poem.
3. Change the line length of your poem to include a caesura or enjambment
4. Focus on your cadence groups

Turn your poem in, label it 2nd draft (sound).

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About this course!

This course stresses understanding the characteristics & techniques in the literary genres of fiction, poetry, and dramatic writing. This course will continue to build on students’ reading and writing skills begun in previous creative writing classes. Readings and discussions of works by major writers in the field will be examined as inspiration and models of fine writing. This educational blog is designed for the use of the students at the School of the Arts in Rochester, NY.