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This week: Metaphorically Speaking Edited by: fyn  
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Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.~~Charles Simic
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.~~Emily Dickinson
With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.~~Edgar Allan Poe
You know, people speak in poetry all the time. They just don't realize it.~~Sherman Alexie
All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.~~Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Poetry is the craft of words molded around sound, sculpted of syllables, fashioned of thoughts and colored with inspiration. Description is often an integral part of the process as it is what allows the reader to experience the varied sensations the poem offers. As a wordsmith, one needs to be constantly on the lookout for word combinations that grow by the side of the road, that swiftly zing! by the corner of your ear or insinuate themselves in a half-formed thought that might otherwise get lost in translation.
It is in the playing with words that thoughts evolve into those phrases we all can quote from some poem in our past, those snippets of sound that stick in our minds and those combinations that bring a smile to our hearts when we remember them. This is why it is so important to find new ways to describe thoughts and feelings and to express them in a way that hasn't been done before.
This is where the use of metaphors can add layers of description, nuance and depth to your poetry. A metaphor (according to Dictionary.com) is "a figure of speech in which a term or phrase is applied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance."
For example, we've all seen geese flying overhead. Saying, "The geese flew in a V through the autumn sky," is nothing new or different. Consider this: The geese, shot from an instinctual bow, pierced the morning sky with their raucous goodbyes. How much different a mental picture, how much more complete of an image is revealed? We still have the V, only now it is an arrow and the arrowhead of geese metaphor is continued throughout.
We've all seen the sky when a storm is approaching. And yes, the clouds often look angry. How about:"The grey clouds pressing down with that ominous foreboding of an unsettled argument. The spring runoff waterfall thunders. Uh huh. "The furious waters crested the rock-knuckled fist atop the falls, plunging down in many fingered streams to splash below; an angry palm slapping an offender into submission."
Using metaphors to describe one thing in terms of another allows for you to create fresh interpretations and take your writing to a whole new level.
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A*Monaing*Faith  says: thanks to NaPoWriMo I like this NL even more today, love the quotes AND the title! Love the imagery of 'breathing' a poem, thanks!
Awwww, thanks! :)
monty31802 writes: This is one great News Letter. I think our favorites would run about the same.
Thanks for the effort you put into a very entertaining one.
Thank you. Poetry-wise, expect I would! See note at the bottom!
adds: I will say that Between Edgar Allen Poe and Shakespeare there's a close tie. Poe's, The Raven, has always been one of my favorites. Especially after Peter, Paul & Mary created a song about Three Ravens. And Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, especially Hamlet, I can never get out of my head. I really loved when Mel Gibson made a film of Hamlet keeping it in the original language, he really did the play justice.
Went and found the "Three Ravens" song. I'd never heard it before although I am a huge PP&M fan! Thanks!
ANN Counselor, Lesbian & Happy  comments: Fyn: I loved this newsletter. Thank you for including whole poems. I'll treasure and re-read this newsletter again and again. I was one of those teachers assigning Baby Boomers to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address and various poems. Glad you remember and reminded me....those eighth grade boys who couldn't sit still, were real showoffs standing up front reciting. ANN
I remember that!!!
Marci Missing Everyone says:Reading through your letter brought back my own memories. I switched high schools a couple of times, and at the last one was where I was required to memorize. That was a long time ago (more years than I want to admit), and I can still remember two of them and barely miss any words. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and I Sinned by Martha Snell Nicholson. Thanks for taking me down memory lane and reminding me of some of my favorite poems.
*smiles*
I'm curious...what are a couple of your most favorite poems? Send me an EMAIL (fyndorian@writing.com) and let me know the title and author... and WHY that particular poem strikes a chord. Going to use what I'm sent next time round. |
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