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Re: Somebody help.
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lugnet.people
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Mon, 4 Oct 1999 04:49:51 GMT
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mattdm@&antispam&mattdm.org
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A great example of a villanelle is
<URL:http://www.poets.org/LIT/POEM/Dthoma01.htm>
Note that Mr. Dylan Thomas pretty much disregards my advice about focusing
on concrete images. Oh well.
Listen to the audio if you can -- it works a lot better that way. You can
see -- or hear, rather -- what I mean about the flow and feel of the
language.
Robert Frost may provide a better example of the way concrete, real-world
description can be used to talk about something profound:
<URL:http://redfrog.norconnect.no/~poems/poems/00346.html>. (It helps if you
know that snow is traditionally associated with death.)
--
Matthew Miller ---> mattdm@mattdm.org
Quotes 'R' Us ---> http://quotes-r-us.org/
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| (...) I don't think "limerick" and "romantic" go together very well! If you want to impress someone, that isn't the way to do it. Try just writing something several stanzas long about something interesting from everyday life. Pick a concrete image (...) (25 years ago, 4-Oct-99, to lugnet.people)
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