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ApocalypticJay
Posts : 2528 Karma : 470 Location : Nuneaton UK
| Subject: Poet Tribute: W.B Yeats - April 13th - 18th April 14th 2013, 4:05 pm | |
| **Happy National Poetry Month**
In celebration of National Poetry Month, every 6 days in April we will introduce (or re-introduce) you to a Famous poet, and invite you to attempt to write in their approximate style as a tribute!
April 1-6 Sylvia Plath April 7-12 Federico García Lorca April 13-18 W.B Yeats April 19-24 Dr Seuss April 25-30 Seamus Heaney
April 13th - 18th W.B Yeats
• Born: 5 June 1865 Dublin, Ireland – 19 August 1939 Menton, France. • Most notable for The Tower and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1928 and 1929). • Well known for winning the Nobel Prize in literature and “inspiring a nation”. • Highly acknowledge for his plays and work with the Irish National Theater Society at the Abbey Theater. • Yeats was an Irish Nationalist and was appointed Senator of the Irish Free State. • Yeats is generally considered as a key English language poet.
The thing I love about Yeats is his language, so rich as vast is his vocabulary you can’t help but adore it, often using rhythm and rhyme he manages to engross you in his use of words. Each line seems created with deep thought and symbolism. Although a modernist poet his use of forms is admirable and someone I always look to, to be inspired by when approaching them.
I have read, heard and seen this poem being read so many times but it never fails to impact me.
Here is a sample, one of my favourites of his works:
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
by W.B Yeats
This week, we invite you to write a Poetic Tribute poem in the style of W.B Yeats. The thing to consider when writing in the style of Yeats is his heavy use of symbolism, the rhythm and well versed rhyme mixed with his sentimentality and naturalistic metaphors. Have fun, I look forward to reading what you produce. | |
| | | ApocalypticJay
Posts : 2528 Karma : 470 Location : Nuneaton UK
| Subject: Re: Poet Tribute: W.B Yeats - April 13th - 18th April 21st 2013, 8:44 am | |
| A Song of Poseidon
The emerald sparked candescence alive he remained in soil, a growth bound in her lilac heady groves beneath skin would moil, steps from muddy highland to sweet shore; backwoods now unrecalled, for the calling of his sandy beach floor had her heart enthralled.
Once a caprice woman of the forest now resides in sea, adoring wet silken hands, a tourist to ocean she would flee; he lays sparks on her skin, warming the cold with touch of fervour, shivers and fever would wear winter old in their forever. | |
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New Poetry Prompt! | July 25th 2013, 2:21 pm by Jamie | Hi friends!
It's been a busy summer for us here at Poet Share, as the sunshine has called us away more than usual. We've posted a new poetry prompt today for you summery, adventurous types.
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