The others…

5/ Try to write either a William Carlos Williams, an Ezra Pound or an e.e.cummings poem using your own subject matter but sticking to their language and form. As a starting point you might try either “The Red Wheelbarrow”, or “In a Station of the Metro” or e.e.cummings “in Just-” As per my previous blog…

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman celebrated the entire human sensual experience within his poems. He is famous for rejecting traditional poetic forms in favour of free verse which embodied an  organic flow. Whitman wrote using the words of the common people, known as vernacular, and incorporated urban and rural themes. I attempt this creative poem, with little to…