We’re a week to Thanksgiving here in the USofA, and we have not one or two but three poems of gratitude to examine, giving us 6 lessons of Advice for All Writers.
These three poems have quirky ways of matching to the holiday,
thanks-giving and gratitude.
The gratitude doesn’t take the gushing that usually fills
most writings about thankfulness. The individual poets present their heartfelt
emotion in a realistic manner. They’ve lived real lives and experienced pain
and heartbreak, and they share this reality in the hopes that we can gain from
their experiences.
Reality rather than gushy platitudes? I’m in for that, every
time.
Like writing strong, rational characters with strong counterparts,
allies and antagonists rather than weak straw-men which doesn’t prove anything
about strength and intelligence and logic.
TIMINGS
- 00:00 Welcome
- 00:40 Introduction / Lessons 1 & 2
- 03:40 Lessons 3 & 4
- 06:22 Cowper “Gratitude”
- 08:45 Sandburg “Our Prayer of Thanks”
- 13:20 Lesson 5
- 14:45 Nesbit “Gratitude”
- 16:15 Lesson 6
- 17:25 Last Words / Closing
Total Run Time = 19:31
Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used
LINKS
William Cowper bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cowper
Cowper’s poem https://allpoetry.com/Gratitude-And-Love-To-God
Carl Sandburg bio https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/carl-sandburg
Sandburg’s poem http://carl-sandburg.com/our_prayer_of_thanks.htm
Edith Nesbit bio https://www.britannica.com/biography/E-Nesbit
Nesbit’s poem https://www.poetry.com/poem/8831/gratitude
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