An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure ~ October 2023!

 An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure ~ October 2023!

Poetry Session on Tuesday evening at 7.30pm 24th October.

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Thu 19/10/2023 20:49

Greetings Poetry Friends,

Here is hoping that you are enjoying

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,

   Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; 

Conspiring with him how to load and bless

   With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

                                                                     JK

Our next poetry session is Tuesday evening 24th October at 7.30 pm .

Among the suggestions at our last meeting was to consider picking a sonnet. Below is some information on sonnets which is a taste of what Patricia shared with us the last night

The sonnet, which derived from the Italian word sonetto, meaning “a little sound or song," is "a popular classical form that has compelled poets for centuries," The most common—and simplest—type is known as the English or Shakespearean sonnet, but there are several other types.

Before Shakespeare's time, the word sonnet could be applied to any short lyric poem. In Renaissance Italy and then in Elizabethan England, the sonnet became a fixed poetic form, consisting of 14 lines, usually iambic pentameter in English.

Different types of sonnets evolved in the different languages of the poets writing them, with variations in rhyme scheme and metrical pattern. But all sonnets have a two-part thematic structure, containing a problem and solution, question and answer, or proposition and reinterpretation within their 14 lines and a volta, or turn, between the two parts.

Patrick Kavanagh in some of his poems used the sonnet format. Among them are 

• The Hospital, 
•  October 
•  Canal Bank Walk

But as is often said with regard to our group, the above about selecting a sonnet is a suggestion.   Please feel free to share any poem that says something to you as we edge towards Winter.

Looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday evening.

Leona has kindly agreed to chair our session.

And please feel most welcome to invite anyone else who may be interested in our poetry session.

Best wishes 

Jim

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