Each week in 300 words

"Everything will be enobled and justified by age"

NB: I wrote this as a draft way back the day of the Mullen and Nabokov pieces and forgot to post it, so yeah.
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I thought that was a fantastic line. Is everything made noble and good just because it's old?
"How can I demonstrate to him that I have just glimpsed someone's future recollection?"
Likewise, the Mullen piece was INGENIOUS! I just loved all the wordplays she used. They were things I never would have thought of and it was just brimming with creativity. It felt like a puzzle, where you have to figure out the theme of each poem.
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Ok now onto today's pieces. I'd read Bishop's Sestina back in the day when I was taking a writing/poetry class the summer between 4th and 5th grade. It wasn't so much the flow of the piece as the physical patterns and structure of the sestina. I was so fascinated by it that I tried to write my own about a horse that ran away. Needless to say, it wasn't nearly as good as Bishop's. Reading it again this year, I've decided that I love it for the fluidity of the language and how you don't even notice that she uses the same six words in a pattern for each stanza. The sestina is such a brilliant form of poetry.
As for class, I'm glad that we're focusing more on writing than on reading for the time being. Don't get me wrong, I love reading (not as much as ILRies, but we're getting there) but as this is a writing class, I want to just be able to write, let words spill out onto the page and hope that there's some coherence to it all. In the same vein, I have this phobia of people reading and critiquing my writing. I shouldn't be so sensitive to it, but I am. I'm hoping to get over it this semester, so we'll see what happens.

posted by Debbie @ 4:41 PM