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Blank Verse and Free Verse

Blank Verse (definition from the book):  Unrhymed iambic pentameter.  It was used by Shakespeare and other Elizabethan dramatists because iambic meter was closet to the natural rhythms of English speech.

Free Verse (definition from the book): Poetry written by poets who felt that they had to break free of traditional poetic forms.  Often free verses uses colloquial speech patterns and breath pauses to shape the poetic line, and it usually is unrhymed.

Here is an example of a Blank Verse:
Site of examples: http://www.poeticterminology.net/07-blank-verse.htm

Example of Blank Verse

The Ball Poem
by
John Berryman

What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water!

Here is an example of a Free Verse:
Site of examples: http://www.poeticterminology.net/24-free-verse.htm

Example of Free Verse

Song of Myself
by
Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Ezra Pound Imitation

FryBread

Your smells, the crunch that you make, the way you make my eyes water;
So soft like a cloud, but as hot as a early morning shower.

Ode to High Heels

Added height with an inch,
They may pinch but I do not mind,
Putting stilettos on my feet,
make my heart flutter with joy.

Red, yellow, black and pink,
some faded, some with a glean.
Tiny bows on the toes,
accessory is the key.

Straps that tie around my ankle,
help me take strides with pride.
Spiked heels and thick heels,
I love the ones that look funky.

I have over a hundred pairs,
even though I have fallen a hundred times.
Gucci, Prada and some Candy,
I collect those that are fancy.

Litany Poem: Frybread Momma

Frybread Momma by Venus Pigsley

You are the frybread and the stew,
the drummer and the dancer.
You are the sweat on the woman's forehead
and the burning heat of the fryer.
You are the flower covered shirt on the frybread momma,
and the grease vapor floating in the air.

However, you are not the chief,

or the whip woman.

And you are certainly not the burnt bread.

There is just no way that you are burnt bread.

It is possible that you are the indian tipi creepin,
maybe even powwow princess,
but you are not even close
to being the eagle soaring in the sky.

And a quick look in the mirror will show
that you are neither the moccasins by the door
nor the dogs asleep outside.

It might interest you to know,
speaking of the plentiful imagery of the world,
that I am the sound of the moccasins dancing.

I also happen to be the morning star, 

the napkin floating down the lodge hallway

and the basket of delicious fruit on the table. 

I am also the feathers in the dancers' hair

and the elders' cup of kool-aid.
But don't worry, I'm not the frybread and the stew.
You are still the frybread and the stew.
You will always be the frybread and the stew,
not to mention the drummer and--somehow--the 

dancer.

P.S:
My mom makes DELICIOUS Frybread.
She's my Frybread Momma

About Me :)

My name is Venus Pigsley.  I am 21 years old.  I have an undeclared major.  I love art, that's what I would like to get my education for.  I'm a local here in Lewiston, ID, I have lived here for 14 years.  I was born in Oregon and wish to go back someday.

Some interesting things about me are that I was the only girl wrestler here in Lewiston.  I wrestled for 9 years.  I love track and cross country, but I like to run on my own.  I hate basketball because I am not very good at it.  I also love to draw, paint, sculpt, which has allowed me to draw my own tattoos.  I have 9 of them.  Later on in life I hope to have a degree in some type of art and hopefully travel the world and become a tattoo artist.  Hobbies that I have are running, watching movies, bowling, and skating at the roller rink downtown, spending time with my family and my boyfriend.
I hope to learn a lot from this Literature class but I don't know if I will like it very much honestly.  But by far I'm very excited to see what comes in the future.