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Program description/goal: 

Description:To gain a better understanding of the masters of poetry

Leader: China Blue
Moderator(s):
Wesley Snow
Alidzane

Objectives:To learn about and how the 19th century masters lived ,and wrote

Level of expertise: Open to all

Subject matter:
To select one 19th century poet (does not have to be an English poet)
study that poets biography
select one of their writings
discuss what you might think was going on in that poets mind when they wrote it
write a biographical poem of the author you chose
BUT
write in their form or style

all discussions will be posted in the workshop
written poem will be posted in the stream at intervals to give the membership time to read and comment. Depending on how many folks sign up I will assign when to post
depending on how many people attend will determine if this workshops run a bit over the ten days

Length: 
10 days
Number of participants (limit): 
10 people
Skill level: 
Date: 
Friday, June 5, 2015 to Sunday, June 21, 2015

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Go ahead and count me in although I might be awol from time to time. Things are getting pretty busy around here........stan

Thanks you.

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Jonathan Moore

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W. H. Snow

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Will be both fascinating and challenging, I'm sure. Sadly I won't be able to participate but will follow when I can.

cheers,
Jess
A new workshop on the most important element of poetry-
'Rhythm and Meter in Poetry'
https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/rhythm-and-meter-poetry

sounds good

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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I'm preparing for it. Still not sure which to choose. Come to think of it, not sure how to turn a haiku ino a biographical poem. lol. but I'll see what I can do.

Alid

the bio poem is about the author not the poem
you will see once we begin which will be very soon

Chrys
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author comment

And, if chosen, is it a "first come" type of arrangement?

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Jonathan Moore

and they need not be European... even. We're in this to expand our horizons.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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thanks for answering Jonathan I missed the question and I was here yesterday
Jon hope you got your answer
as long as they are 19th century I know the poet I have chosen is not as well know

No you get the choice

Chrys
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author comment

This should be fun.

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Jonathan Moore

English will be the only place I will venture, but gods... the Canon of Six alone. Mark Twain! When was Frost born?
Ah, Kipling. Mowgli is the better Tarzan.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Born 1874, died 1963

we haven't started this workshop yet
But I am glad to see everyone selecting their people lol
keep looking at their life it will come in handy at the end of the workshop
see everyone in a couple of days. Have to make a trip to Richmond tomorrow so wish me luck

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

It is on loan. We all of us can do without for a short time.
For you.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Here we go!

step one:
select a 9th century poet
I see some of you already have

study that poet
pay close attention to their life
style of writing etc
first question
why have you selected the poet you did

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My choice is
William Ernest Henley
perhaps not as popular as some however this is one of the reasons for my choice

I like the mans style of writing, very plain and down to earth
another reason his poem
Invictus is one of my most favorite poems
I feel as though I can strongly identify with the words(especially after the year I had)

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Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Chrys
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author comment

step one:
select a 9th century poet

there's typo there 19th century. if its 9th century, I won't be able to do it either.

Alid

19th is correct
as stated in my outline

Chrys
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author comment

It was a tie between Hardy and Yeats, but the English man comes on top because I'm more familiar with him, though I've been inspired by Yeats' poetry more than Hardy's.

I love Hardy for his style of tragedy seen in Tess of the d'Ubervilles and The Mayor of Casterbridge. The latter shaped the way I saw the world fundamentally, the former I began to read on what has proven so far to be the most defining day of my life.

I take Hardy personally.

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

Yeats I am familiar with. I don't know that I ever read Hardy I will have to look into his poetry
thanks for the quick reply

Chrys
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Although I've read Hardy, I know little about his life other than the novels I mentioned. This will help me discover more of him.

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

Masaoka Shiki born in October 14, 1867, died in September 19, 1902

I choose him because I love to explore asian poetry.

Night (Japanese haiku translated in english)

Night; and once again,
the while I wait for you, cold wind
turns into rain.

Masaoka Shiki

Alid

very different but I am happy to see something different

Chrys
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author comment

I chose him for two reasons. One I think he is one of the finest "lyric" poets whoever lived and I love his work dearly. Two is that I know nothing of the man save that his wife wrote Frankenstein.

Come to find out, he was victimized in school and turned to pranksterism to defend himself. He once set the school on fire... but let me get more of my facts straight before I go on.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

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The story of his death inspired a poem once.

He was cruel with his first love though - she threw herself in a lake (or river) when Percy went away with Mary. Although he was atheist, Shelly was very superstitious too. Not that I find it odd - I've been there before.

His life fascinates me. The Ode to the West Wind will always be in my heart.

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

I chose Kipling because he wrote to be read. He wrote for the widest audience possible, without assuming they were idiots.

Kipling's life held joy, loss, tragedy, and a hope so founded in realism that people mistake it for fatalism. Kipling wrote about the everyday in terms the populace could embrace and his work spanned the interest of the most common to the most powerful.

Anyone who has not read Kim and Captains Courageous is doing themselves a disservice. For the workshop, I will chose one of his poems, but, probably, not the one most people know.

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Jonathan Moore

very nice choices
we will wait for Stan and JudyAnne

Chrys
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post titled "Frost" was a response to Wes' query about Frost's birth day. I did not mean for it to be taken for my choice but I'll gladly take Frost because I think I've heard of him before lol..........stan

as Jonathon has taken my pick.... :(
I'll be quick :)
possibly Tennyson....
xxx

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

seems there would have been three people choosing the same poet lol
as I would have made that my choice as well

next time I may assign poets ,they say you learn by trial and error

Chrys
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Masaoka Shiki was the pen-name for Masaoka Noboru who was born in Matsuyama City in Iyo Province to samurai class family of modest means. He was a Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in the Meiji period. He was called Tokoronosuke when he was a child before his name was changed to Noboru. At 15yrs old, he got involved in politics, involving himself with the Freedom and People's Rights Movement and was banned from public speaking by his school's principal. In 1883, he moved to Tokyo.

His works -
In 1892, serialized works Dassai Shooku Haiwa or "Talks on Haiku from the Otter's Den".in 1895, "A Text on Haikai for Beginners", Haikai Taiyō in 1896 Meiji Nijūkunen no Haikukai or "The Haiku World of 1896" where he praised works by disciples Takahama Kyoshi and Kawahigashi Hekigotō, Haijin Buson or "The Haiku Poet Buson" (1896-1897) expressing Shiki's idea
In 1898 Utayomi ni Atauru Sho or "Letters to a Tanka Poet" where he urged reform of the tanka poetry form. Before he died he wrote 3 sickbbed diaries entitled Bokujū Itteki or "A Drop of Ink" (1901), Gyōga Manroku or "Stray Notes While Lying On My Back" (1901-1902), and Byōshō Rokushaku or "A Sixfoot Sickbed" (1902).

Alid

It is the weekend so that will give those time to play catch up and still enjoy ,it
but if you wish to sneak peak here is what we will be doing next

Select a poem of your chosen poet
and REWRITE IT IN MODERN DAY VERNACULAR
THIS IS WHY I CHOSE 19TH CENTURY POETS
I will not be around until late tomorrow

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

are we going to post the poem in the stream or post it here?

Alid

Seems the ladies all want the guy known for his love poems lol

why not it is in our nature isn't it lol

Chrys
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In 1814 Shelley and his future wife Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin were traveling through Europe along the Rhine in Germany with a stop in a town close to Frankenstein Castle where two centuries before an alchemist performed experiments. Later in Switzerland with their friends Lord Byron and John Polidori on Halloween they dared each other. Who could write the best horror story? A drunken evening produced nothing from all but Mary who, thinking for days, began work on what is now entitled “Frankenstein”.

Okay, that's done.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was born in 1792 at Field Place in Sussex, England to Sir Timothy Shelley, a Member of Parliament of the Whig party.

Shelley began his education at Eton College where he was subjected to what later were called “Shelley baits”. His books would be thrown, his clothes torn.
Ever subtle and crafty, Shelley turned to the practical joke as his means of defense. Often he would use a frictional electric machine to hot wire door knobs, but it was when he blew up a tree on Eton’s South Meadow that he was expelled.

After a period of poor performance at Oxford, Shelley published his first novel entitled “Zastrozzi” (1810) in which he expressed his atheistic view of the world.
That year he also published “Original Poetry by Victor and Cazire” with his sister Elizabeth.
“The Rosicrucian” was published (along with “The Necessity of Atheism”) in 1811.
Due this publication he was called to see the College Fellows, including the Dean, George Rowley. Shelley would not repudiate his authorship and was expelled.

Shelley was not well known or read in his lifetime, but his works slowly become popular after his death.

Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned in a storm on the Gulf of Spezia. He was returning after having set up “The Liberal” with Leigh Hunt. The boat, named Don Juan, went down in 1822. Shelley did not live 30 years.

Shelley’s most important poem was written on a dare with Horace Smith to see who could write the best poem about Ozymandias (Ramses the second). It has now become a staple of the repertoire of the Romantic Era.

It is this poem I will attempt to mimic.

Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Learn how, teach others.
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weekend is over post when you have them ready your version of the poem you chose
the instructions were
select a poem from any that your poet has written and re write in modern day vernacular
be sure to say it is for the workshop and indicate what the original poem was

have at it
might be a good idea to let us know HERE when you have posted

all re written poem get posted to stream

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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please check in if you are still there

Chrys
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I've posted mine ("The Bright Moon") in the stream. Need someone to tell me how to improve or if I can do better.

Alid

will have a look this evening
as will the other workshop members
won't we workshop members???????

Chrys
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I'm working on my "Ozymandias" mimic and it's proving difficult. I WOULD choose one of the greatest lyric sonnets of all time to emulate.
But I will succeed! It will be awful, but I will learn and that's all I care about. The bios are informative.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Learn how, teach others.
The NeoPoet Mentor Program
http://www.neopoet.com/mentor/about

did I say it was going to be easy

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

I wonder if the different time zone is the factor.

Alid

Several things are going on right now...company issues...I'll probably be late on this. And I don't know what poem I'll take. :(

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

you have until the 17th

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

posting mine now
see above for copy of original poem

Chrys
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author comment

it should appear in the workshop page, replacing mine as its the latest poem posted for the workshop. Did you scroll down after writing your poem and choose the workshop title before you saved?

Alid

it would not let me it is there though

Chrys
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Wesley and Jonathan are you guys still on board?

Chrys
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This workshop is a marvelous idea and an informative one and Chrys' idea. But a workshop only works with participation. Where are my poets in this intimate workshop. Alid and I should not be alone.
I think so much of this idea of Chrys' that I'm considering running it every season. There are so many poets living and dead that I know nothing about.
Let's rectify that.
If even one poet has had their mind opened to something new (that would be me) the shop has served its purpose, but I would like to see the rest of the participants benefit from this workshop now.

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Learn how, teach others.
The NeoPoet Mentor Program
http://www.neopoet.com/mentor/about

Come on people! We need your co-operation. If you are facing problem in your exercise, seek help from the mentor.

Alid

I do understand reality tends to get in the way and that being said
I'm sorry we were unable to keep this workshop going. Perhaps we can try again at a later date.
Understandable that summer is taking hold of folks and there are more fun things out of doors
So I have made the decision to close this workshop for now
Thank you to those that were able to participate

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

I've been very busy in 'real life' but I've been working on my poem - you did say that we had till the 17th xxx

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

Per Dr's orders I've been limiting use of right arm until it stops being as numb as my skull lol. Will try to post poem tomorrow as well as a limited bio of Frost.......stan

I've submitted my poem....
Hope to find time over the next couple of days to review/comment on others, but sorry, am caught up with things atm
xxx

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

I'll open it back up
but will have to limit it to the posting of your version of the author you chose
as there was a lot more I had planned I'll check with the director and see if I can extend past the 17th

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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Problem with fast paced shops is life sometimes gets in the way . Up to you about re-opening. I could just post a blog about Frost then put a poem on stream attributed to shop.........

to attempting a write about the poet, in the poet's style :) so I hope you will extend....
xxx

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

Ws until the 21 June

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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Robert Frost first beheld this world in San Francisco which disappointed chin enough to make him wail without having to have his bottom spanked. Thus he worked as hard and studied as much as he could to escape to Dartmouth and Harvard Colleges as soon as he could. He attended both then graduated and promptly used his education to become a farmer in New Hampshire (Likely where he thought he Should have been born). After about a decade of toiling the stoney New England soil he left for Old England where he lived from 1912-1915 with his wife and 2 children. It was here that he met such renowned poets as Ezra Pound and Edward Thomas whose favorable reviews of Frost's poetry established his reputation.

He then came back to the States and taught at various places but he spent the longest stretch at Amherst College. (See, back in New England again. The fact he apparently considered himself a Yankee instead of settling in the South is one of his few flaws). During this time he published his second book "North of Boston" which made him one of the best known American poets. He read "The Gift Outright" at John Kennedy's inauguration.

Most of his poems were rooted in the New England landscape. He used plain speech in metered form in such a way as to make it sound like normal sentences instead of song. During his time of writing many "intellectuals" dismissed his poetry as "conventional" and dated. They often missed the buried subtext floating beneath the surface of his writings.

Many of his contemporaries assumed him to be a mere throw back to the earlier ages of strictly metered rhyming poetry. They apparently often over looked the fact that he also wrote in free verse and seldom hesitated to "break form" id doing so led to a better conveyance of what he wanted the reader to "see." He once equated free verse to playing tennis without nets. It's my opinion that he meant there were still rules to this new free verse just not quite as many.

He was a perfect poet for his time. A time during which both the world and poetry were undergoing abrupt changes.
His poetry often embraced simpler times just passed but also delivered themes which are pertinent whether one lives in an agrarian society or a modern hight tech urban one such as today's.

Alidzain is so kind to stay in touch with me. I sorry I haven't been around much. My MS has me too tired to funtion properly on here. It's really hard to see and focus. Now I have cataract in my glaucoma stricken right eye and I'm totally blind in it. I be on vacation end of next month on hawaii for two weeks then will be having surgery on my eye two days we return home on August 3. I can't read all here but I'll read alidzain poem and comment bc it's all I can do

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I had no idea you were going through such difficulties. Have fun in Hawaii and I hope the surgery goes well....stan

I tried to be here but when the bobby crashes it crashes lol

*Collaborative Poetry Workshop* American Version of Japanese Poetry ~ Renga ~ Haiku, Senyru, Tanka.

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I tried to be here but when the bobby crashes it crashes lol

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I don't see, in the syllabus, that we need to give a biography of the poet - I understand it to be that we write a poem, in the style of the poet, re this later..... so I'm not doing as the others have here - am I wrong?

I understand that the next stage is to discuss the poet's reason and meaning....
where do you want us to do this?

Love judy
xxx

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

select your poet m READ his/her biography , re write in modern day language one of their poems
post re write here, all discussions in workshop reason and meaning are next to last

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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done that Chrys ... my rewrite of one of Tennyson's poems is in the WS stream - where everyone else has posted theirs - I haven't seen anyone post their rewrite here....
my question was regarding what the others have done here re their poets' biographies....

'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)

actually it is up to you since that was not one of the required posts all I asked was for ppl to read up on their poets because part of the discussion and final step was to do directly with the poet we have still to get to the discussion on language used and contrasting then we all will post a biographical poem about the life of your selected poet in the vernacular of their times there was a lot more of the ws to cover that is why I was anxious to see the rewrites posted as soon as possible

Chrys
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I know when I re wrote my poem I found it difficult simply because the language was similar so it was a matter of finding synonyms which to me was harder than transposing all thee and thous etc

open for discussion

how did you feel about transposing the wording of your poems

did you glean anything from the authors biography

where you able to discern what may have been going on in the poets head when he/she wrote their poem

did re writing the poem give you a better understanding of it's contents

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after this brief discussion please if you will
write a poem of your authors life using the vernacular of his/her time

post discussion answers here and the poem in the stream be sure to indicate it is for meet the masters ws

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

Just to be clear, you want us to post a poem on stream by our chosen author exactly as he/she wrote it and in the mean time discuss the author's possible state of mind when he wrote the poem which we rewrote?.....stan

I'm asking you to post a poem about
Fros'ts life(bio) in the language used for that period this is why I had you read up on them

the discussion part stays in the workshop and is a matter of answering the few prompting questuions I posted there

Chrys
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it is difficult because of the strict haiku rule. In truth, haiku is the type of poem which talks about nature which may represent some aspects about life. I find that the Japanese culture is attuned to nature. As my chosen poet is a very sickly man and he has involved in politic movements against the government at that time, I believed his poems are his means of redeeming his self worth in the society. They may have rejected his political views but they acknowledged him as one of the haiku masters.

Alid

I think rewriting another poets poetry goes a long way toward understanding the intent of the poem. Trying to really Know the writer himself based on one or two rewrites is a different matter. Imagine somebody trying to really know me by just rewriting say......."The Delivery" and "Season of Miracles"..........stan

is why I had you read their biography to glean a better understanding of the poet

I've only asked that you re write the one poem

the second as I stated before was to write a biographical poem (of the author ,no you)
In the language for that time

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

Now, to the biographies. One of the tenets of the workshop was to expose us to as many different poet's lives as well as their poetry. The life makes the poetry. I for one am fascinated by what I have learned of these poets.
Some of it I knew, much I did not.
Thank you to all who posted extensive bios.

Now, does someone want to write my last poem for me? Like an idiot I'm to imitate Shelley. What was I thinking?

W. H. Snow

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Learn how, teach others.
The NeoPoet Mentor Program
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a poem telling about the poet you have chosen , written in the same language for that era,time period ect)

not that difficult to understand or did I make it so?

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

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err.." written in the same language for that era,time period"

I take it you mean the style because if I'm to write in the same language, it will be in Japanese which of course will give me a real headache to write. lol.. That also means it will be a mixture of haiku and senryu or a tanka.

You sound tensed there. Give us some time and then we'll do our best. We are all still learning after all.

Alid

that does present a problem doesn't it lol
go ahead and do yours in english

Chrys
Let your mercy spill on all these burning hearts in hell(Leonard Cohen)

author comment

get things across to old senile guys like me lol.......stan

especially if the instructions are being given by an old senile gal lol

Chrys
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I got busy preparing for investor pitches for my new company, and the changes that come with financing have taken their toll. Also, post pitches, I fell into depression and haven't written anything since the 6th.

But I'll do this. I realise I don't have a favourite Hardy poem, so I'll pick one at random, fall in love with it, and rewrite it. Today.

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

My poem is only biographical if you really stretch it. It's based on Hardy's The Darkling Thrush, and it is informed by Poetry Foundation's essay on his life, notably his somewhat bleak outlook coloured with hope. Read more about it here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/thomas-hardy

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

Lovely website. How'd I create me one.

*Collaborative Poetry Workshop* American Version of Japanese Poetry ~ Renga ~ Haiku, Senyru, Tanka.

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I built it myself. I'm a web developer.
It's based on Jekyll.

No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job. - TS Eliot

http://www.wsgeorge.com/

Great I check,it out

*Collaborative Poetry Workshop* American Version of Japanese Poetry ~ Renga ~ Haiku, Senyru, Tanka.

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xoxo

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