What should be covered in a poetry workshop?
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I may take on the task of leading a one session (2 hour maximum) workshop on poetry. What would be the most important aspects that should be covered in such a workshop? I would assume that most folks going to a workshop like this would be beginner-intermediate level.
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- The kinds of poetry: blank verse, free verse, structured (limericks/sonnets/haiku etc.)
- Rhyme and meter: when they matter, when they don't, when to violate, when Mr. Pritchard should be told to suck pipe
- Sounds: beginning/ending, alliteration, repetition, opening/closing and rising/falling vowels, consonants, how syllables create or interrupt flow and rhythm
- Puns, double entendres, and other wordplay
- My poetry teacher always talked about paring away: remove as much as you can, distill as much as you can, so that every word is meaningful and no words are extra.
- Shakespeare, because you can't talk about poetry without talking about the Bard
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