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Fall into Poetry / Rossetti's 3 Cold Poems

October is a month of changes, of transitions, anticipation of the colors even as summer gives us a few reminders of his warmth.

And October ends with All Hallow’s Eve, the evening before a holy day ~ a time of riotous revelry by the forces defiant against God, Father, Creator, Savior.

Creeping upon me with the early chill of October mornings was the realization that Christina Rossett should be next in our Fall into Poetry series. Born 1830 and died 1894, Rossetti is sister to the artist-poet Dante Rossetti of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, the Victorian painters who reached into the past and into mythology for the primary subjects of their lush artwork.

Most know Christina Rossetti for “Goblin Market”, a long narrative poem of two sisters. One sister succumbs to temptation and tastes the fruit sold by the goblins. We’re not going to look at “Goblin Market”. I know you’re disappointed. Instead, we’re looking at three other poems, two straight-forward and people-pleasing, one personal and puzzling, all three with lessons for all writers, not just poets.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction / C.Rossetti
03:30 First Poem / First Lesson
07:25 Second Lesson
08:30 Second Poem / Cold Poems
11:00 Third Poem
17:02 Last 2 Lessons
19:00 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 21:06

Analysis is All Original Content / No AI Used

LINKS

Biography https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Rossetti

“January Cold Desolate” https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/january-cold-desolate

“A Year’s Windfalls” https://allpoetry.com/A-Years-Windfalls

“From Sunset to Star Rise” https://genius.com/Christina-rossetti-from-sunset-to-star-rise-annotated

“Goblin Market” https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market

“A Birthday” https://poets.org/poem/birthday

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Fall into Poetry / Dances of October

We have a theme of Dances of October for this episode ~ although one of our two poems doesn’t mention dancing and the other doesn’t mention October. How are we connecting these two works to that theme?

Well, my brain said “Put them together”, and here we are.

The first poem is by African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. He’s barely anthologized anymore, but that doesn’t mean he should be neglected. Dunbar is an excellent writer with diverse style in different forms, including prose and plays. His verse elevates him above the one-trick ponies who are studied because they represent a type (Louise May Alcott, e.g.).

Our other poem is a lesser-known work by the famous William Butler Yeats.

Follow along as we find unexpected connections with these two unconnected poems. We’ll also add in a few writing lessons that will help all writers.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction
01:35 Dunbar’s “October”
07:09 First Lesson for All Writers
08:46 Yeat’s “To a Child Dancing in the Wind”
12:44 Second Lesson for All Writers
15:35 Reaching New Meaning / Dunbar & Yeats
17:25 Third Lesson for all Writers, A & B
18:25 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 20:32

LINKS

Paul Laurence Dunbar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Laurence_Dunbar

“October” https://poets.org/poem/october-2

William Butler Yeats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

“To a Child …” https://www.poetryverse.com/william-butler-yeats-poems/child-dancing-the-wind

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Fall into Poetry / Two Autumn Poems

What sparks a love of poetry?

The highbrow puzzles of e.e. cummings or the imagism of Ezra Pound. The lyrical music of John Keats or Christina Rossetti. The logical jumps and intellectual gymnastics of the metaphysical poets. The gimmick that marks Ferlinghetti. The emotions that lurk in a Longfellow sonnet. The intriguing story-songs that we just examined last month.

None of the above sparked my love of poetry. They deepened my love and enriched it, teased me by simultaneously engaging mind and heart.

My love of poetry was sparked by my mother. She gifted her daughters with a love of birds, of flowers, of nature itself. She quoted poems that she’d memorized over the years, poems that echoed with her love of nature, and those poems still echo for me. When I saw poetic lines expressed in nature, poetry lived for me.

Over my years, I’ve found more poems that live, some highbrow, some with a lowbrow snicker, some middlebrow which are frowned upon by intellectuals as “not clever enough”. I say if the poem is to a person’s taste, then who has a right to disrespect their choice?

And so we come to this episode’s poems, two that reveal autumn’s glory, both with marketing and writing ideas for anyone interested in a writing-focused life.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction / Taste in Poetry
02:16 Writer’s Growth / Marketing Lesson
03:34 Helen Hunt Jackson
03:51 “September”
05:39 Easter Eggs and Secrets
08:41 “October”
13:25 Famous Love Story / Clever Word Choice
16:05 Marketing Genius / Audience-Focused
18:00 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 20:07

Links

Helen Hunt Jackson bio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Hunt_Jackson

Her poetry https://www.poemhunter.com/helen-hunt-jackson/

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Fall into Poetry / Sweet Wine

Wine is heady stuff. A simple goblet of wine relaxes us; a mega-pint or a bottle can tip us into trouble.

Do you prefer the creamy full-body of a fine cabernet or the bite of a sauvignon blanc? Perhaps a medium red like a spicy Zinfandel or a lighter Riesling? Or a fruiter, sweet-forward wine, like a strawberry wine? Homemade, requiring only fresh strawberries, sugar, yeast, and water?

Hi, everyone. This week’s episode is another story-song, not a ballad of love, betrayal, and death. This is a sweet song which still has a bite, a rite of passage that leaves a heady memory in the speaker. It’s “Strawberry Wine,” launched into country music in 1996 but still speaking to all of us.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction / “Strawberry Wine”
02:42 Song Structure / 4 Requirements of Song
06:28 Impact Events / Chorus
08:27 Second Stanza / Bridge
10:51 Speaker’s Dilemma / Inherent Drives
14:20 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 16:29

LINKS

Song Lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/deanacarter/strawberrywine.html

Video Performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up06CryWQpE

Bio of M. Berg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matraca_Berg

Bio of G. Harrison https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Harrison

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Fall into Poetry / Sweet Lies

Here’s an odd way to start a conversation about a song: the word moron.

Hi all. It’s the third episode in our autumn series Fall Into Poetry. We’ve featured two story-songs (narrative poems) that are ballads, not the modern power ballad of the music world but the literature-based ballad with its focus on the subjects of love, betrayal, and death.

This episode’s song is not a ballad, even though it concerns love and betrayal and the death of a relationship. It’s not even a story-song. It’s a lyric poem, which means that it expresses an emotion. We do have hints of a story but not really.

And we’re delving into the song by looking first at the word moron. Odd, I know. A little weird. But there you are.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Introduction
03:44 Oxymoron / Shakespeare
07:52 Oxymoronic Characters
08:03 “Little Lies”
11:00 Stanza 2 Twist
13:23 Summation for Writers
14:20 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 16:26

LINKS

“Little Lies” performance https://youtu.be/uCGD9dT12C0

“Little Lies” lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/fleetwoodmac/littlelies.html

#fleetwoodmac #christinemcvie #littlelies #oxymoron #hamlet #romeoandjuliet

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Fall into Poetry / Clown Faire

Story-songs, like last episode’s “Read my Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot, leave a mark in our memories. Very little is needed to return them to the foreground of our mind.

That’s also the case with this episode’s story-song, another ballad, this time for Broadway, written by the fantastic Stephen Sondheim, a great in American stagecraft.

I first encountered this song in 1976 as part of my chorus class, not on the radio. It requires a maturity of experience, which I didn’t have then. I caught the song’s cosmic irony but didn’t truly comprehend the personal devastation of the character who sings it. Nor did I catch the revealing epiphany of the last line.

Many greats have performed it: Frank Sinatra, Judy Collins, Barbra Streisand, Judy Dench. The version in my head harkens to Bernadette Peters’ performance. First to perform it, though, and the singer for whom it was intended was Glynis Johns.

If you know Sondheim’s work, you’ve already guessed the song: “Send in the Clowns”.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome

00:40 Introduction to “Send in the Clowns”

02:58 Clear Communication

03:30 Strong Imagery and Emotion

08:52 Powerful Lines / Ballad

13:10 Four Lessons for Fiction / Nonfiction Writers

15:52 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 18:02

LINKS

Lyrics https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/judycollins/sendintheclowns.html

Performance by Bernadette Peters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZhmsp6iBQ

& by Glynnis Johns https://youtu.be/OAl-EawVobY

#stephensondheim #cosmicirony #ballad #sendintheclowns

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Fall into Poetry / Read my Mind

Every writer is after memorable writing, whatever will strengthen our words and ideas so they haunt our audience.

We want our audience to return again and again to our writing, either to recapture that original impact or to puzzle out a question that wasn’t answered.

Capture our audience, and they stay with our writing to the end.

Satisfy our audience, and they seek more of our writing.

This is our goal: win-win, us and them.

Our series Fall into Poetry would seem to appeal only to poets—but that’s a surface glance. We writers can learn from any writing style, poetry teaching fiction, dramas teaching nonfiction, any mix-up we can contemplate.

We begin with a story-song from the realm of popular music. This song’s endurance proves that it is memorable writing by one of our greatest modern songwriters, now sadly gone: “If You Could Read my Mind, Love” by Gordon Lightfoot, a ballad when most songs are lyrics.

If you’re unfamiliar with “Read my Mind”, then pause this podcast and head off to find a new song to add to your favorites list. Come back to hear our analysis. (Links Below)

Join The Write Focus all through autumn as we examine great poems that teach a multitude of lessons for all writers.

TIMINGS

00:00 Welcome
00:40 Word Count Challenge / Final Check-in
03:10 Fall into Poetry introduction
05:40 “If You Could Read my Mind, Love”
07:00 Four Requirements of Song
13:57 “Read my Mind” as a Ballad
14:55 Two Special Touches
18:47 Closing

Total Run Time: 19:49

LINKS

Lyrics for “Read my Mind” https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gordonlightfoot/ifyoucouldreadmymind.html

YouTube performance of “Read my Mind” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK--A-IaZnA

Rick Beato’s analysis of the music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X33YyowZZxQ

#writing poetry #poetry #GordonLightfoot #Ifyoucouldreadmymind

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Fall into Poetry / Rossetti's 3 Cold Poems

October is a month of changes, of transitions, anticipation of the colors even as summer gives us a few reminders of his warmth.

And October ends with All Hallow’s Eve, the evening before a holy day ~ a time of riotous revelry by the forces defiant against God, Father, Creator, Savior.

TIMINGS

Fall into Poetry / Dances of October

We have a theme of Dances of October for this episode ~ although one of our two poems doesn’t mention dancing and the other doesn’t mention October. How are we connecting these two works to that theme?

Fall into Poetry / Two Autumn Poems

What sparks a love of poetry?

Fall into Poetry / Sweet Wine

Wine is heady stuff. A simple goblet of wine relaxes us; a mega-pint or a bottle can tip us into trouble.

TIMINGS

Fall into Poetry / Sweet Lies

Here’s an odd way to start a conversation about a song: the word moron.

Fall into Poetry / Clown Faire

Story-songs, like last episode’s “Read my Mind” by Gordon Lightfoot, leave a mark in our memories. Very little is needed to return them to the foreground of our mind.

TIMINGS

LINKS

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