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• Code Unknown: 23 Things About W. H. Auden

  
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  W. H. Auden One day, while he and Stephen Spender were students at Oxford, Spender told him that he was thinking of stopping writing poetry. Auden stopped in his tracks, took firm hold of Spender’s arm and said, “You must keep writing poetry, Stephen—we need you.” After relocating to America in 1939, ...
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• Why Write Sestinas?

  
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  Oh yes, why write sestinas ? I like the difficulty of the form : six stanzas with six end-words that have to repeat in a particular rotating pattern (twice in the three-line envoi at the end) like playing ping-pong with six balls and six other players. Sestinas are tricky.   The repetition of the end-words ...
  5 weeks ago

• Writing Poetry about Art

  
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  I’m a member of the tribe who likes to write poetry about art. The first moment of ekphrastic poetry we have comes from Homer when he halts the battle action in The Illiad to describe the stunning Shield of Achilles. The most well-known ekphrastic poem is of course Keats’s “ Ode on a Grecian Urn, ” in ...
  5 weeks ago

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