December Post #1 - Poetry
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highlyeccentricAt majoline's request, some thoughts on the year of poetry posting:
I'm finding it really hard to envision *ceasing* to post daily poems. I thought, when I wrote a series of reflections for![[community profile]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
poetree a few months ago, that I would be incredibly glad to stop, but now I'm faced with two points of consternation: one, what are the chances that I will finish the two anthologies I'm working through, and two, what am I supposed to do with things I read now?
I really struggle with the process of reading without some form of associated output, can you tell?
It's interesting how separate poem-a-day remains from my teaching. I'm teaching detailed poetic analysis and I really have no desire to try that out on the poems I post here - although this week I learned about 'zeugma' and you bet I'll post here the first poem I find in the wild with a zeugma in it. I want a whole poem FULL of zeugmas!*
This has been your first December prompted post! Pls to be giving more prompts.
Week 1 - Poetry meme, as permajoline
Week 2 -
Week 3 -
Week 4 -
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* Tangentially, today I taught my class about Dad Jokes. I told them many zeugmas were puns, but not all puns were zeugmas, and then they wanted examples of non-zeugma puns.
majoline's request, some thoughts on the year of poetry posting:I'm finding it really hard to envision *ceasing* to post daily poems. I thought, when I wrote a series of reflections for
poetree a few months ago, that I would be incredibly glad to stop, but now I'm faced with two points of consternation: one, what are the chances that I will finish the two anthologies I'm working through, and two, what am I supposed to do with things I read now?I really struggle with the process of reading without some form of associated output, can you tell?
It's interesting how separate poem-a-day remains from my teaching. I'm teaching detailed poetic analysis and I really have no desire to try that out on the poems I post here - although this week I learned about 'zeugma' and you bet I'll post here the first poem I find in the wild with a zeugma in it. I want a whole poem FULL of zeugmas!*
This has been your first December prompted post! Pls to be giving more prompts.
Week 1 - Poetry meme, as per
majolineWeek 2 -
Week 3 -
Week 4 -
~
* Tangentially, today I taught my class about Dad Jokes. I told them many zeugmas were puns, but not all puns were zeugmas, and then they wanted examples of non-zeugma puns.
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Date: 2013-12-05 08:49 pm (UTC)I'm glad you don't feel you need to analyse them, that way you won't burn out.
* Tangentially, today I taught my class about Dad Jokes. I told them many zeugmas were puns, but not all puns were zeugmas, and then they wanted examples of non-zeugma puns. This is hilarious.
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Date: 2013-12-06 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-06 07:34 am (UTC)So a zeugma is what you get when you hang two parts of a sentence off the one verb or preposition. Bonus points if the verb or preposition has to operate in a literal sense for one and a figurative for the other. The example in our textbook was from a poem by Pope: 'Or stain her honour, or her new brocade'. A better example of the punning capacity is from Pickwick Papers: 'She went home in a flood of tears and a sedan-chair'.
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Date: 2013-12-06 03:57 pm (UTC)Oo okay.