The Patterns of Poetry listing

This page will be updated each time there is a new Patterns of Poetry talk. It gives the date, links to the original post, and indicates which poems were discussed.

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1: Introduction. 28 September 2010.
2: Titles. 28 September 2010. 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop, and 'Out, Out' by Robert Frost.
3: Alliteration. 30 September 2010. 'The Windhover' by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
4: Personification. 1 October 2010. 'Shancoduff' by Patrick Kavanagh.
5: Symbols. 4 October 2010. 'The Stare's Nest by my Window' by W.B. Yeats.
6. Onomatopoeia. 6 October 2010. 'A Constable Calls' and 'Sunlight' by Seamus Heaney.
7. Cliché. 8 October 2010. Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare, and 'Valentine' by Carol Ann Duffy.
8. Simile. 9 October 2010. 'Morning Song' by Sylvia Plath.
9. Rhyme. 12 October 2010. 'Mirror in February' by Thomas Kinsella.
10. Repetition. 15 October 2010. 'The Fish' by Elizabeth Bishop and 'Moonshine' by Richard Murphy.
11. The Sonnet. 18 October 2010. 'Epic' by Patrick Kavanagh.
12. Punctuation. 20 October 2010. 'I felt a Funeral in my Brain' by Emily Dickinson and 'Strawberries' by Edwin Morgan.
13. Foreshadowing. 3 November 2010. 'To Autumn' by John Keats.
14. Metaphor. 22 November 2010. 'The Forge' by Seamus Heaney.
15. Hyperbole. 16 December 2010. 'A Christmas Childhood' by Patrick Kavanagh.