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Which one do you prefer and why? I personally love reading the classics of poetry, because they are beautifully created and melodiously crafted. They display the feelings and sentiments to perfection... What about you?
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Reading my new poetry book - in front of the TV that my father was watching - I found myself whispering the words as I read. So, I was wondering, does poetry need to be said/read out loud or is it just me?
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Dear BGO Members, I write to draw your attention to my eBook, ‘The Evidence of Our Senses’: Language, Belief and Britain’s Great War. The book is the product of a student of English literature whose interest, in postgraduate years, turned more specifically to history and the relationships between language, patterns of thought and decision-making. The book examines the confection of a British sense of national identity during the second half of the nineteenth century and relates this to the illogicality and irrationality of the British decision to intervene in t
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This prose-poem below will deal with: goals and goal setting, purpose and process, dealing with difficulties and seeking understanding, among other subjects. __________ Part 1: What makes poetry, at least for me, is the simultaneity of ideas, the greater density of language. I attempt linearity and the sequential in my poetry; these are the chief features of prose. Much of my poetry is very much like prose and this is, as I say, because of the sequence and the linearity in my work. I do this partly to make it readable. I’m after simplicity and communication, not obscurity and complexity
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I'm just wondering what kind of poetry people enjoyed in their younger years, as sometimes I find it hard to think what to recommend to the teeny-weeny's in my library. All that I can think I enjoyed around the late teens was Alice Walker and Seamus Heaney.