CREATIVE WRITING What happens at the end of a line of poetry when you do not end with a punctuation...

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CREATIVE WRITING What happens at the end of a line of poetry when you do not end with a punctuation mark?

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CREATIVE WRITING

What happens at the end of a line of poetry when you do not end with a punctuation mark?

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Enjambment

The running-over of a sentence or phrase from one poetic line to the next, without terminal punctuation; the opposite of end-stopped. William Carlos Williams’s “Between Walls” is one sentence broken into 10 enjambed lines:

      

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Break this poem up into lines and stanzas

the back wings of the hospital where nothing will grow lie cinders in which shine the broken pieces of a green bottle

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“Between the Walls” (by William Carlos Williams)

the back wingsof the

hospital whereNothing

will grow liecinders

in which shinethe broken

pieces of a greenbottle

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Try once more…

It still makes sense to know the song after all. My wiseness I wear in despair of something better. I am all beggar, I am all ears. Soon everything will be sold and I can go back home by myself again and try to be a man.

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“The Song” (by Robert Creeley)It still makes sense to know the song after all.

My wiseness I wear in despair of something better.

I am all beggar, I am all ears.

Soon everything will be sold and I can go back home

by myself again and try to be a man.

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You try…

Write two poems with short lines (like Williams and Creeley) that have at least three instances of enjambment

The poems must be between 10-15 lines long

After you’ve written the poem, type it in Plaintext and follow the instructions on the next page

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Plaintext, Photos, Photoshop, Dropbox

Write your poem in the Plaintext app TITLE IT WITH YOUR NAME!!!

Take a screen shot

Open the photo in the Photoshop app Crop the photo so that it shows the whole poem and

only the poem

Upload the photo to Dropbox, Mr. Negley, CW 4B

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Comments

Comment on three poems

1. Write the title of the poem 2. What do you think of the poem? 3. Where is the enjambment effective? Why? 4. Provide one suggestion (where would you

break—line or stanza—the poem differently or where you might take something out to make the poem flow better)