I use this poem in my stage one Creative Writing Course -- it really irritates the students, but the more we discuss it, the more they begin to respect it, I think -- albeit grudgingly.
After that I play them Hone Tuwhare reading out his poem "Cummings" ...
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I use this poem in my stage one Creative Writing Course -- it really irritates the students, but the more we discuss it, the more they begin to respect it, I think -- albeit grudgingly.
After that I play them Hone Tuwhare reading out his poem "Cummings" ...
It really is a beautiful poem. Everything fits together so well in just four words.
I love the parenthesis within the word -- it seems to mime the connoting process itself.
And then the form mimes BOTH a falling leaf AND the letters' 'loneliness' from each other.
And finally the last '-iness' suggests that it is the grounding noun-marker/thing-maker for the preceding sum.
Damn -- now I have to hear Tuwhare's poem. I guess I'll have to get a hold of this:
NZ Poets in Performance...
http://aonzpsa.blogspot.com/2007/11/classic-nz-poets-in-performance.html
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