Red sky session 2
title: “Red Sky Session 2”
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date: 28-08-2022
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No 2 with Jacob Samuel Rose.
What is Form?
- Poetic Forms are rulesets that have been designed and codified over the years
- Rhythmic patterning and metre- works differently in other languages
- Stanza length and line length
Form Does not Equal Structure
- Structure is the way a poem’s thinking moves
- Eg. A turn is a shift in trajectory.
Form Can Open Things up by Constraint.
- A way to use Constrained Writing to free your imagination.
Form Can Be a Layer of Meaning.
Try Attempting Form in Stages.
- Eg for a Sonnet start with 14 lines, then add in Iambic pentameter, then add in the rhyme scheme
Inhabit a Form for a While. Live in it and See what it Does.
Novel Forms Are Unique Takes on Constrained Thinking.
- Eg. Golden Shovel.
- Offer them for others
Read Widely, Pay Attention to what Others Are Doing.
Leda & the Swan- Jaqueline Saphra
- Traditional form of white man. Twists it and makes it her own
- Rejection of traditional Sonnet form.
- Refuses to look away. Violence is not glamorised.