1 Writing Poetry Session 1 Icebreakers Objectives of Workshop Oral Nature of Poetry Physical Nature of Poetry The Writing Habit: Productivity The poet’s Passion Center Generating Ideas Qmfbtf!Tibsf!xjui!vt/// • the very earliest memory you can recall of your life... • a time when your body was physically wrenched or cramped with ntro delight or laughter... duct • a concrete, tangible aspect of a Iions person which freaked you out... • a word or phrase that prompts strong and inexplicable reaction in you, for better or worse Workshop Goals to help participants develop an individual voice through careful selection of form, diction,tone and persona to expose participants to the great range of themes and forms that poems may take to help participants generate meaningful ideas for their poetry to enhance participants’ observational skills to enable participants to distinguish poetry from verse to help participants identify which kind of poetry they most wish to write to demonstrate the most appropriate writing techniques unique to the genre to impart the artistic use of image, metaphor, symbol, sound and sense Baseline knowledge Which of the following concepts are familiar to you: Accent | Acrostic | Alliteration | Allusion | Assonance | Amphibrach | Amphimacer | Anacreontic verse | Analepsis | Aphesis | Aposiopesis | Catachresis | Catalectic | Cinquain | Deictic | Dithyramb | Eclogue | Epistrophe | Epizenxis | Epode | Hendecasyllabic | Hyperbaton | Isochronous Meter | Isocolon | Molossus | Phonolexis | Pleonasm | Prosopopoeia | Reverdie | Stichomythia | Terzain | Tribrach | Zeugma | Poetic license Baseline knowledge Acatalectic | Accent | Accentual verse | Accentual-syllabic verse | Acephalous | Acrostic | Action poetry | Adonic | Aesthetic Movement | Alcaics | Alexandrine | Allegory | Alliteration | Allusion | Ambiguity | Amphibrach | Amphimacer | Amplification | Anachronism | Anacoluthon | Anacreontic verse | Anacrucis | Anadiplosis | Anagram | Analepsis | Analogue | Anapest | Anaphora | Antepenultima | Anthropomorphism | Antibacchic | Antiphon | Antispast | Antistrophe | Antithesis | Antonomasia | Antonymy | Aphesis | Aphorism | Apocope | Aporia | Aposiopesis | Apostrophe | Archaism | Archetype | Asclepiad | Assonance | Asyndeton | Atmosphere | Aubade (Provençal) | Augustan | Aureate language | Bacchic | Ballad | Ballade | Ballad stanza | Bard | Bathos | Beat poets | Black Mountain Poets | Blank verse | Blues | Bombast | Bouts rimés | Bretan lay | Broadside ballads | Broken rhyme | Bucolic | Burden | Burlesque | Burns stanza or meter | Cacophony | Cadence | Caesura | Canon | Canto | Canzone | Carol | Caroline | Carpe diem | Catachresis | Catalectic | Catalogue verse | Celtic revival | Chanson | Chant royale | Chiasmus | Choka | Choliamb | Choree | Choriamb | Cinquain | Circumlocution | Clerihew | Closed couplet | Cockney School of Poetry | Common measure | Complaint | Conceit | Concrete poetry | Confessional poetry | Connotation | Consonance | Content words | Convention | Corona | Counting-out rhymes | Couplet | Cretic | Curtal sonnet | Dactyl | Débat | Deictic | Denotation | Didactic verse | Dimeter | Dirge | Dissonance | Distich | Dithyramb | Dizain | Doggerel | Double dactyl | Dramatic monologue | Dream vision | Duplet | Ear poetry | Echoism | Eclogue | Elegiac stanza | Elegy | Elision | Ellipsis | End-stopped | Enjambement | Envoy | Epic | Epic simile | Epigram | Epigraph | Epistle | Epistrophe | Epitaph | Epithalamion | Epitrite | Epizenxis | Epode | Euphony | Exemplum | Eye- rhyme | Fabliau | Feminine ending or rhyme | Figure of speech | Fixed and unfixed forms | The Fleshly School of Poetry | Flyting | Folk song | Foot | Formula | Found poem | Fourteener | Free verse | Georgian | Georgic poems | Ghazal | Glyconic | Gnomic verse | Graveyard School | Grue | Haiku | Hemistich | Hendecasyllabic | Hendiadys | Heptameter | Heroic couplet | Hexameter | Horatian ode | Hovering stress | Hudibrastic poetry | Hymn | Hyperbaton | Hyperbole | Hypercatalectic | Hypermetric | Iamb, iambus | Iambic trimeter | Ictus | Idyll | Image | Imagism | In Memoriam stanza | Internal rhyme | Ionic | Irony | Isochronous Metre | Isocolon | Italian sonnet | Kenning | Kyrielle | Light verse | Limerick | Line | Litotes | Little Willy | Liverpool poets | Lyric | Macaronic verse | Madrigal | Maker | Masculine ending or rhyme | Metaphor | Metaphysical poets | Metonymy | Meter | Miltonic sonnet | Mock epic | Mock-heroic | Molossus | Monometer | Motif | Muses | Naga-uta | Negative capability | Neoclassicism Neologism | Nonsense verse | Objectification | Objective correlative | Occasional poem | Occupatio | Octave | Octameter | Octosyllabic | Ode | Onomatopeia | Ottava rima | Overstatement | Oxymoron | Paeon | Palindromes | Palinode | Panegyric | Pantoum | Paradox | Paralipsis | Parallelism | Parataxis | Parody | Paronomasia | Pastiche | Pastoral | Pathetic fallacy | Pattern poetry | Patun | PEN | Pentameter | Periphrasis | Persona | Personification | Petrarchan sonnet | Pherecratean | Phonemic alphabet | Phonolexis | Pindaric ode | Pleonasm | Poem | Poesy | Poetaster | Poetic diction | Poetic license | Poet Laureate | Poetry | Poet's corner | Polyptoton | Polysyndeton | Portmanteau word | Poulter's Measure | Prizes for poetry | Proceleus maticus | Prolepsis | Prose poem | Prosody | Prosopopoeia | Prothalamion | Pun | Pure poetry | Purple passage | Pyrrhic | Pythiambic | Quadruplet | Quantitative metre | Quatrain | Quintain | Refrain | Renga | Reverdie | Rhetorical question | Rhyme | Rhyme royal, rime royale | Rhythm | Rime couée | Rhopalic verse | Romanticism | Rondeau | Rondel, roundel | Roundelay | Sapphic verse | Scansion | Scheme | scop | Septet | Sestet | Sestina | Sextain | Shakespearean sonnet | Sick verse | Silent stress | Simile | Singlet | Skeltonic verse | Slack | Sonnet | Spasmodic School | Spenserian stanza | Spondee | Sprung rhythm | Stanza | Stichomythia | Stress | Strophe | Sublime | Syllabic verse | Syllable | Symbol | Symbolist Movement | Synaeresis, synaloepha | Syncope | Synecdoche | Synesthesia | Syzygy | Tanka | Tautology | Telestich | Tercet, terzet | Terza rima | Terzain | Tetrameter | Theme | Tone | Tornada | Travesty | Tribrach | Trimeter | Triolet | Triplet | Trochee | Trope | Ubi sunt | Understatement | Vers de société | Verse | Verse paragraph | Vers libre | Victorian | Villanelle | Virelay | Voiced and unvoiced | Wheel | Zeugma | If we had but time T-Shirts $12.99 in the Comenole Specialty Shoppe Baseline knowledge Acatalectic | Accent | Accentual verse | Accentual-syllabic verse | Acephalous | Acrostic | Action poetry | Adonic | Aesthetic Movement | Alcaics | Alexandrine | Allegory | Alliteration | Allusion | Ambiguity | Amphibrach | Amphimacer | Amplification | Anachronism | Anacoluthon | Anacreontic verse | Anacrucis | Anadiplosis | Anagram | Analepsis | Analogue | Anapest | Anaphora | Antepenultima | Anthropomorphism | Antibacchic | Antiphon | Antispast | Antistrophe | Antithesis | Antonomasia | Antonymy | Aphesis | Aphorism | Apocope | Aporia | Aposiopesis | Apostrophe | Archaism | Archetype | Asclepiad | Assonance | Asyndeton | Atmosphere | Aubade (Provençal) | Augustan | Aureate language | Bacchic | Ballad | Ballade | Ballad stanza | Bard | Bathos | Beat poets | Black Mountain Poets | Blank verse | Blues | Bombast | Bouts rimés | Bretan lay | Broadside ballads | Broken rhyme | Bucolic | Burden | Burlesque | Burns stanza or meter | Cacophony | Cadence | Caesura | Canon | Canto | Canzone | Carol | Caroline | Carpe diem | Catachresis | Catalectic | Catalogue verse | Celtic revival | Chanson | Chant royale | Chiasmus | Choka | Choliamb | Choree | Choriamb | Cinquain | Circumlocution | Clerihew | Closed couplet | Cockney School of Poetry | Common measure | Complaint | Conceit | Concrete poetry | Confessional poetry | Connotation | Consonance | Content words | Convention | Corona | Counting-out rhymes | Couplet | Cretic | Curtal sonnet | Dactyl | Débat | Deictic | Denotation | Didactic verse | Dimeter | Dirge | Dissonance | Distich | Dithyramb | Dizain | Doggerel | Double dactyl | Dramatic monologue | Dream vision | Duplet | Ear poetry | Echoism | Eclogue | Elegiac stanza | Elegy | Elision | Ellipsis | End-stopped | Enjambement | Envoy | Epic | Epic simile | Epigram | Epigraph | Epistle | Epistrophe | Epitaph | Epithalamion | Epitrite | Epizenxis | Epode | Euphony | Exemplum | Eye- rhyme | Fabliau | Feminine ending or rhyme | Figure of speech | Fixed and unfixed forms | The Fleshly School of Poetry | Flyting | Folk song | Foot | Formula | Found poem | Fourteener | Free verse | Georgian | Georgic poems | Ghazal | Glyconic | Gnomic verse | Graveyard School | Grue | Haiku | Hemistich | Hendecasyllabic | Hendiadys | Heptameter | Heroic couplet | Hexameter | Horatian ode | Hovering stress | Hudibrastic poetry | Hymn | Hyperbaton | Hyperbole | Hypercatalectic | Hypermetric | Iamb, iambus | Iambic trimeter | Ictus | Idyll | Image | Imagism | In Memoriam stanza | Internal rhyme | Ionic | Irony | Isochronous Metre | Isocolon | Italian sonnet | Kenning | Kyrielle | Light verse | Limerick | Line | Litotes | Little Willy | Liverpool poets | Lyric | Macaronic verse | Madrigal | Maker | Masculine ending or rhyme | Metaphor | Metaphysical poets | Metonymy | Meter | Miltonic sonnet | Mock epic | Mock-heroic | Molossus | Monometer | Motif | Muses | Naga-uta | Negative capability | Neoclassicism Neologism | Nonsense verse | Objectification | Objective correlative | Occasional poem | Occupatio | Octave | Octameter | Octosyllabic | Ode |