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Researching Poetry
by Brenpoet (brenmaple@Writing.Com)

This Book was created by Larry Powers (Kansaspoet).
He passed away on November 23rd 2009.
He will be greatly missed as a mentor, writer and dear friend. This book is being kept in my Portfolio as a tribute to his writing.
You can read more about Larry and his wonderful work at: http://www.avolunteersjourney.blogspot.com/

Researching Poetry

Poetry is language used with intensity. It is not, as so many suppose, decorative speech. Poets tell us what our eyes, blurred with too much gawking, and our ears, dulled with too much chatter, miss around and within us. Poets use words to drag us into the depths of reality itself, not by reporting on how life is, but by pushing-pulling us into the middle of it. Poetry gets at the heart of existence. Far from being cosmetic language, it is intestinal. It is root language. Poetry doesn’t so much tell us something we never knew as bring into recognition what was latent or forgotten or overlooked
~~Eugene H. Peterson~~

It is my desire that, with this research, others will be inspired to wade out a bit deeper, away from the comfort of safe shores, and stir the waters of life with ‘intestinal’ poetry.

For a more concise listing of poetry forms, see my good friend Bianca’s Poetry Forms "Poetry Forms"

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~~kansaspoet~~

For clarification, I want to explain that this is a research vehicle. It is not intended as a complete explanation of any form, term, style, or device of poetry. Each entry researches two things - for instance, "The Grossblank and Iambic Hexameter" covers a form and a meter. I learn the things I learn by researching and offer this book as a research tool for other poets. The provided links are an essential part of this research tool.

Thanks to Brenda for adopting this research tool.

#28. The Traditional and the Modern Sijo
---->> ID #627373 entered on 01-02-09 @ 5:41 am EST

#27. The value of reading poetry
---->> ID #622736 entered on 12-06-08 @ 7:25 am EST

#26. Push-pull Poetry
---->> ID #619159 entered on 11-18-08 @ 6:06 am EST

#25. The Cornish Sonnet
---->> ID #605277 entered on 09-03-08 @ 8:01 pm EDT

#24. The Saraband Sonnet
---->> ID #591892 entered on 07-19-08 @ 10:25 am EDT

#23. The Petrarchan Sonnet - the oldest sonnet form
---->> ID #585576 entered on 05-17-08 @ 1:26 pm EDT

#22. The Spenserian Sonnet and Iambic Pentameter
---->> ID #575277 entered on 03-23-08 @ 4:44 pm EDT

#21. The Revanche Poem
---->> ID #570464 entered on 04-21-08 @ 8:17 pm EDT

#20. The Cloned-Line Form
---->> ID #566154 entered on 04-26-08 @ 7:51 am EDT

#19. Free Verse
---->> ID #565303 entered on 02-03-08 @ 4:21 pm EST

#18. Minute Poetry - A practice in iambic meter
---->> ID #558149 entered on 03-08-08 @ 6:30 am EST

#17. Inversion - flipflopping the natural sentence order
---->> ID #556958 entered on 12-24-07 @ 5:21 pm EST

#16. Syllabic Meter
---->> ID #556715 entered on 12-23-07 @ 5:42 am EST

#15. Welsh Poetry
---->> ID #546799 entered on 11-04-07 @ 8:10 pm EST

#14. A Cascade Poem
---->> ID #543022 entered on 10-20-07 @ 11:11 am EDT

#13. Choosing the Right Words for a Poem
---->> ID #535307 entered on 09-15-07 @ 11:33 am EDT

#12. Poetic Limericks
---->> ID #522778 entered on 07-21-07 @ 7:15 pm EDT

#11. The Swap Quatrain and Historical Research
---->> ID #517155 entered on 06-25-07 @ 1:28 am EDT

#10. The CinqTroisDecaLa Rhyme and Syllabic Verse
---->> ID #514109 entered on 06-09-07 @ 4:28 pm EDT

#9. The Sestina and the Envoi
---->> ID #484171 entered on 07-16-08 @ 6:59 am EDT

#8. The Pleiadic and the Repetend (or Repeton)
---->> ID #481500 entered on 01-15-07 @ 11:36 am EST

#7. The Aubade and the Letter-Poem
---->> ID #479446 entered on 01-07-07 @ 8:13 am EST

#6. The Burn's Stanza and Enjambment
---->> ID #477647 entered on 12-30-06 @ 10:58 am EST

#5. The ZaniLa Rhyme and Internal Rhyming
---->> ID #476809 entered on 01-03-07 @ 6:40 pm EST

#4. The Alliterisen and Alliteration
---->> ID #476286 entered on 12-23-06 @ 9:32 am EST

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