Canon Discussion: The Yellow Face

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This week we’re having a look at The Yellow Face. I’ve typed up a few thoughts to get the discussion going—please leave your own ideas in the comments!

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Mrs. Hudson's Poetry Page: The Yellow Face

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Welcome once again to my poetry page!

I hope each week you will read Dr. Watson’s delightful narrative and then be inspired to write a poem related to it in some way. All forms of poetry are permitted, and further down the page there is a selection you might like to consider using over the coming weeks.

This week my featured form is colour poems.

In the doctor’s story, we have of course a yellow mask. And there is also the apparent importance attached to the colour of one’s skin, which happily turns out not to be important at all—at least for one family.

( Definition and Example )

As always, this is simply something to consider for the future. Any form of poetry is welcome this week—and every week! Here are a few suggestions for you:

221B verselet, abecedarian poetry, acrostic poetry, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, diamante, doggerel, epigram, epulaeryu, fable, haiku, limerick, palindrome poetry, riddle, sedoka, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triolet, tyburn, villanelle


Please leave all your poems inspired by The Yellow Face in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!


Warm regards,

Mrs. Hudson

The Yellow Face: Forever Amber

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Canon Story: The Yellow Face
Title: Forever Amber
Author: scfrankles
Rating: G
Author's Notes: “A nice old brier with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber. I wonder how many real amber mouthpieces there are in London? Some people think that a fly in it is a sign.”


London Tobacconist’s, 1885

“There’s a huge fly in this amber!” declared Miss Brown, directing Mr. Montague’s attention to the stem. “Just think: it lived all those years ago…”


Millions of years earlier

“Do you ever wonder about immortality?” asked Little Fly. “Being remembered after you’re gone?”

“That’d be nice,” said Big Fly. “But I think it’s just a pipe dream.”

"The Yellow Face: Repercussions" (60 words, rated G)

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Title: The Yellow Face: Repercussions
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: Watson faces a backlash.

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“Another missive from your agent about the difficulties of selling your latest collection in America?”

Watson nodded. “He says my books are being burned in Georgia and Mississippi, and I’ve been declared a race-mixing radical.”

“All for you merely relating the story of Miss Lucy Munro’s parentage.” Holmes pursed his lips, eyes steely. “No wonder her mother fled the States.”

The Yellow Face: Advertisement

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Canon Story: The Yellow Face
Title: Advertisement (as featured in the Marylebone Illustrated)
Author:thesmallhobbit
Rating: G

For all your smoking requirements come to Joseph Hughes of Marylebone Road.  We provide all forms of pipes, including briers, meerschaums and clays, with both wood and amber stems.  We stock a wide variety of tobacco to suit all tastes and pockets, including the exclusive Grosvenor mix.  In addition pipes can be repaired with top quality silver bands if required.