Saturday, February 27, 2010
Blog 19
The creation of our new forms in class worked rather well. Most everyone had a strong, quality poem to present as well as had success with the sestina's. The sestina is a form that could work extremely well with children or in song form. The repetition of the same ending lines throughout gives it a base that the reader can always come back to. The reader will never far too far away from the subject at hand and this form works really well. Sestina's are not that complictaed and with work will become a favorite form to conquer and explore with.
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I find it interesting that you mentioned that a sestina would work well in a song form or for children. Most of the sestinas we have read have fairly long lines to accomodate for the slightly shifting structure of each use of the repeated word. Currently, I would disagree and say that sestinas are hard to memorize. However, if one could written with shorter lines that would probably prove your point because the repetition definitely helps!
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