Prosody Workshop 1

Ex 1-3: Short Story Draft

Length: 3-4 pages. (Please do not go over this limit.)

Poetry Selections

"Happy Thought" by Robert Louis Stevens
"The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevens
"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer

"The Turtle" by Vachel Lindsay
"The Turtle" by Ogden Nash

Blank Verse Workshop

Rescheduled from Feb 26.

Write ten-beat lines of verse, like Shakespeare wrote.
But lazy poets, do not fill your lines
With really wasteful words that just fill space
In order to repeat a point you've made,
Or words transpos'd, poetic more to seem.
Like this, who speaks? Like Yoda will you sound.

Yet rhymeless soul-pack'd verse astounds the mind.
It echoes common speech you hear all day
Then surges up to soar with metaphor
And crashes, lashing out with sputt'ring rage.