Creative Writing
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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?
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
“Between the Walls” (by William Carlos Williams)
the back wingsof the
hospital whereNothing
will grow liecinders
in which shinethe broken
pieces of a greenbottle
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.
“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.
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
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
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)