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Rich Carlton • 1 card
Care and love, for us, are pronounced clearest through service:
Ocean Vuong • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
An Italian sonnet (also called Petrarchan sonnet, after the Italian poet Petrarch, who popularized it) consists of two units. The first eight lines have the fixed rhyme scheme of abba abba. This unit is called an octave and consists of such things as stating a doubt, asking a question, or delineating a problem—establishing something unsettling that
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Herbert wrote and polished his lone collection of poems privately, and on his deathbed he handed the manuscript over to his friend Nicholas Ferrar.
Leland Ryken • The Devotional Poetry of Donne, Herbert, and Milton
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Wawa Hals • 2 cards
On Children
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A cento, from the Latin word for "patchwork," is a poetic form composed entirely of lines from poems by other poets. This means none of the writing is yours; the lines belong to others, and your work as the writer is selecting the necessary pieces, then assembling the fragments to make a new whole. In my experience, juxtaposing lines from different
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