Poetesses and Poets (dancing with words)

Michael D.
A tribute in words for the art of poetry. Remember what dutch poetess, Jan Luyken, said, "one book printed in the heart's own wax is worth a thousands in stacks." Loving one poet or poetess to the bone of your soul is just fine. Don't feel obligated to know them all. A pursuit of this nature is for the bourgeois and our professor types. We are simply common souls.
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  1. assonance
    the repetition of similar vowels in successive words
  2. allegory
    a short moral story
  3. alliteration
    use of the same consonant at the beginning of each word
  4. Mayakovski
    Soviet poet; leader of Russian futurism (1893-1930)
    Vladimir Mayakovsky. Translated poetry is very difficult. Find is poem, Listen. It's one of my favorites. After you've read it try to find a version of it on youtube read in Russian.
  5. synchronisation
    the relation that exists when things occur at the same time
  6. Sarcophaga
    flesh flies
  7. Atlantis
    according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake
Created on Sun Apr 29 16:15:01 EDT 2012

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