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sherlock60Welcome 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 ‘veiled language’: allegorical poetry and metaphorical poetry.
For allegorical poetry Your Dictionary gives this definition:
An allegory is a piece of art or literature, like a poem or story, in which people, things or happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning.
It also gives many useful and specific examples—just follow the 'allegorical poetry' link above.
For metaphorical poetry it gives this definition:
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that replaces the word or name for one object with that of another. Unlike a simile that uses “like” or “as” (you shine like the sun!), a metaphor does not use these two words (a famous line from Romeo and Juliet has Romeo proclaiming “Juliet is the sun”). Metaphors are commonly used throughout all types of literature, but rarely to the extent that they are used in poetry.
Again, use the 'metaphorical poetry' link given above for many specific examples.
Here is my example poem:
Mr. Holmes is a calculating machine:
Logical deductions on display.
Dr. Watson is a sturdy typewriter:
So many adventures to portray.
And I am a humble pocket watch:
Because I get wound up every day.
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, alexandrine, allegorical poetry, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, metaphorical poetry, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Veiled Lodger in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Warm regards,
Mrs. Hudson
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 ‘veiled language’: allegorical poetry and metaphorical poetry.
For allegorical poetry Your Dictionary gives this definition:
An allegory is a piece of art or literature, like a poem or story, in which people, things or happenings have a hidden or symbolic meaning.
It also gives many useful and specific examples—just follow the 'allegorical poetry' link above.
For metaphorical poetry it gives this definition:
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that replaces the word or name for one object with that of another. Unlike a simile that uses “like” or “as” (you shine like the sun!), a metaphor does not use these two words (a famous line from Romeo and Juliet has Romeo proclaiming “Juliet is the sun”). Metaphors are commonly used throughout all types of literature, but rarely to the extent that they are used in poetry.
Again, use the 'metaphorical poetry' link given above for many specific examples.
Here is my example poem:
Logical deductions on display.
Dr. Watson is a sturdy typewriter:
So many adventures to portray.
And I am a humble pocket watch:
Because I get wound up every day.
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, alexandrine, allegorical poetry, ballad, beeswing, blackout poetry, blues stanza, bref double, Burns stanza, call and response, chastushka, cinquain, circular poetry, clerihew, colour poems, concrete poetry, Cornish verse, curtal sonnet, diamante, doggerel, double dactyl, ekphrasis, elegiac couplet, elegiac stanza, elfje, englyn, epigram, epitaph, epulaeryu, Etheree, fable, found poetry, ghazal, haiku, Italian sonnet, jueju, kennings poem, lanturne, limerick, lyric poetry, mathnawī, metaphorical poetry, micropoetry, mini-monoverse, palindrome poetry, pantoum, Parallelismus Membrorum, poem cycle, quintilla, renga, riddle, rime couée, Schüttelreim, sedoka, septet, sestina, sonnet, tanka, tercet, terza rima, tongue twister poetry, triangular triplet, triolet, Tyburn, villanelle
Please leave all your poems inspired by The Veiled Lodger in the comments on this post. I look forward to seeing them!
Mrs. Hudson
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Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 08:34 am (UTC)Infidelity, violence, disgrace.
A murder plot saw
A poor lion, catspaw –
When it backfired, she truly lost face.
Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 10:07 am (UTC)“The person that I allude to is dead.” “...Leonardo, the strong man…”
From the death of the strong
comes something sweet
A kindly ear
A man discreet
Justice and compassion
joined in matrimony
Out of the lion comes honey
Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 10:44 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 10:45 am (UTC)Re: Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 10:46 am (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 11:42 am (UTC)Re: Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 11:44 am (UTC)with such a show of sympathy as I had seldom known him to exhibit.
“Poor girl!” he said. “Poor girl! The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest..."
I think that shows the best part of Holmes' personality.
Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 11:47 am (UTC)The politician, the lighthouse and the cormorant
Date: 2016-03-20 12:48 pm (UTC)My concern for their reputation is scant
I shall be soon publishing details featuring
The politician, the lighthouse and the cormorant
Any further attempt to break into our premises
By use of a thief or similar man
Will result in my full disclosure of
The lighthouse, the cormorant and the politician
And when you see my words in print
You will have no cause or reason to grouse
For I have given sufficient warning regarding
The cormorant, the politician and the lighthouse
Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 12:50 pm (UTC)Re: Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 12:51 pm (UTC)Re: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 12:53 pm (UTC)Re: The politician, the lighthouse and the cormorant
Date: 2016-03-20 12:55 pm (UTC)terza rima "Look at it from the lion's point of view"
Date: 2016-03-20 12:56 pm (UTC)To proud but prideless eyes, the judgment 'death
From misadventure’s but a point of view.
What folly! Feign my regal claw, my breath,
My rage, and see a foreign king enslaved
display his grasp of native shibboleth!
What cruel beasts! What animals depraved!
The lash, the cage, the swords by which the lives,
Demise of loathsome two-legg’d swine were staved.
Revenge denied, their verdict mild deprives.
Far worse, my sentence: the condemned survives.
Re: The politician, the lighthouse and the cormorant
Date: 2016-03-20 01:02 pm (UTC)Re: terza rima "Look at it from the lion's point of view"
Date: 2016-03-20 01:04 pm (UTC)Re: terza rima
Date: 2016-03-20 01:20 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 03:35 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 03:35 pm (UTC)RE: Re: Leonardo...slightly metaphorical.
Date: 2016-03-20 03:36 pm (UTC)RE: Limerick
Date: 2016-03-20 03:37 pm (UTC)RE: Not really allegorical or metaphorical…
Date: 2016-03-20 03:37 pm (UTC)RE: The politician, the lighthouse and the cormorant
Date: 2016-03-20 03:39 pm (UTC)