If the form intrigues you, check out “The Golden Shovel Anthology,” published by the University of Arkansas Press. Congratulations, you’ve written a golden shovel. Ta-Da! Write in your poem (or print it out and place each of your end words with its line). Do you want your poem to “pound” or “purr” on the page? Then, focus on sound and musicality. See if you can include a simile, a metaphor or maybe some imagery to evoke the five senses. In the poem above, for example, the first line ends with “aching,” which corresponds to the first word of the selected headline. Each line must end with your end word, but your actual sentence can flow over into the next line, though the final word of each line should feel like some kind of ending. in the way Pope deals with the notion of rules in literary composition. You are ready to write or type your poem (you might want to do this on scratch paper). Pope, Alexander (16881744), poet published on by Oxford University Press. Cut out your words and place them on a piece of paper at the end of each line in the order in which they originally appeared, following the pattern in the poem above. (The poem above is drawn from an article by Jason Zinoman in the March 14 print edition of The New York Times.) You will need to give credit to that writer at the bottom of your poem. Be sure to write down the author of the article your headline came from, as well as the date of the issue. In doing so, you too, are honoring Gwendolyn Brooks, one line at a time.Ĭredit. If you study poetics in college, youll read, talk, and think about a lot of literature. You are going to do the same thing: Use what has come before you as inspiration to create your own golden shovel. The theory of literary techniques involved in composing verse and prose is known as poetics. Poets are always celebrating one another, as all poems are really inspired by other poems. Primarily this has been due to the influence of the ‘semantic’ poetics which followed upon the New Criticism, but more recently the structuralist poetics. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. The conception of poetics as an objective and systematic, or, indeed, even a ‘scientific’ study of literature has gained wide currency among theorists and critics since the last war. As Brooks herself once said: “Words can do wonderful things. That is the joy of writing a poem and of being a poet. Hayes’s created his poetic form in honor of a poet he deeply respects, and also in honor of something he does in many of his poems, play. Hayes created his poem, “The Golden Shovel,” originally published in his 2010 collection “Lighthead,” it was inspired by Brooks’s classic, and the name of his form came from her poem’s epigraph, “The Pool Players./Seven at the Golden Shovel.” Mr. The golden shovel is a contemporary poetic form that follows a set of rules invented by the acclaimed poet Terrance Hayes in homage to Gwendolyn Brooks, the former poet laureate and the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize. With April’s National Poetry Month approaching, let’s write a poem in honor of another poem, and another poet. Celebration and honor are two touchstones of the poetic tradition.
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