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[title] => kill your darlings...
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[hometext] => Writing assignment for poetry class...
[bodytext] => In this writing assignment, each stanza follows 7-5-7-5 word pattern, line by line. This poem is inspired by a William Faulkner quote, who when asked if he had any advice to poets, said "kill your darlings". The idea of stripping away unecessary words, phrases, stanzas etc. to "find the poem" really appeals to me. Rather than adding/decorating more material, the art is in stripping away material similar to how a sculpter works. Allowing yourself to let go of material that you might find inspirational or worthwhile is important if the poet wishes to go beyond what he has already achieved. kill your darlings, those muddled and cluttered paper rocks--kill them lovingly sparing only the jagged edges joined partially by a spider's single strand rearrange and unwind skeptical scavengers before holding in your palm, a message which lies behind language, the old man staring silently, a delicate profile wrinkled and amused, being blind, hardly remembers these darlings, and while hidden his cold grey skin darkens when sung in poems, stories, old memories swept away like childhood, the quiet neighborhood forgotten, reinvents itself in death, and like birth, discovers who it was before any reluctant thought occurred [comments] => 5 [counter] => 251 [topic] => 69 [informant] => zenmind [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => poets )
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