Chapter 11 gives an overview of the different stages poems need to go through until they are finished. These stages are called “Exploring“, „Trying Out“, “Focusing“, and “Shaping“.
In my opinion, the most difficult step is to focus on the content. As the book explains in this stage it is important to “Sharpen[…] fuzzy spots- unintentional ambiguity, exaggerations, private meanings, confusing omissions, and especially purple passages“.
Another important step is the shaping of a poem- a process in which the words of the poem must be deployed into lines. The writer has to decide whether he or she wants to use free verse or meter, rhyme, or non-rhyme, etc. The structure of a poem makes it often more vivid and relates to the content especially in Marianne Moore’s poem “The Fish”. Shape and content represent an entity. The arrangement of the particular lines and stanzas, respectively, mimic the fluidity of water or even waves. This poem strongly reminds me on a German poem called “Das Karussell” by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is a poem about a carousel in which the speaker observes a carousel that features through miniatured copies of animals such as a “white elephant” or a “lion”. The striking formal feature is that the reader can perceive the carousel’s rotation since the “white elephant” occurs repeatedly and at frequent intervals.
Returning the Moore’s poem I think she did well in making poem and structure an entity. Trying to create an appropriate and challenging form makes a poem even more special, I guess.
In my opinion, the most difficult step is to focus on the content. As the book explains in this stage it is important to “Sharpen[…] fuzzy spots- unintentional ambiguity, exaggerations, private meanings, confusing omissions, and especially purple passages“.
Another important step is the shaping of a poem- a process in which the words of the poem must be deployed into lines. The writer has to decide whether he or she wants to use free verse or meter, rhyme, or non-rhyme, etc. The structure of a poem makes it often more vivid and relates to the content especially in Marianne Moore’s poem “The Fish”. Shape and content represent an entity. The arrangement of the particular lines and stanzas, respectively, mimic the fluidity of water or even waves. This poem strongly reminds me on a German poem called “Das Karussell” by Rainer Maria Rilke. It is a poem about a carousel in which the speaker observes a carousel that features through miniatured copies of animals such as a “white elephant” or a “lion”. The striking formal feature is that the reader can perceive the carousel’s rotation since the “white elephant” occurs repeatedly and at frequent intervals.
Returning the Moore’s poem I think she did well in making poem and structure an entity. Trying to create an appropriate and challenging form makes a poem even more special, I guess.
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