Red Sky Session 2

tags: [[ [WritingWorkshop ]]]

[[ Red-Sky-Session ]] No 2 with Jacob-Samuel-Rose on Poetic-form

What is Form?

  • [[ Poetic-Forms are rulesets that have been refined over years ]] that have been designed and codified over the years
  • Rhythmic patterning and metre
  • Stanza length and line length [[ poetic Form works differently in other languages ]]

[[ Poetic 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.

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.

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.

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