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Dip the poetry strips into the flour paste, coating both sides. Begin laying your poetry strips across the bottom of the balloon. Continue this until the bottom of the balloon is completely covered. Set your balloon aside to dry. Once the paper strips have hardened, pop the balloon and remove it from the bowl.
Ovid, Roman poet noted especially for his Ars amatoria and Metamorphoses. His verse had immense influence both by its imaginative interpretations of Classical myth and as an example of supreme technical accomplishment. Learn more about Ovid’s life and work.
Originating in ancient Greece, ode poems were originally performed publicly to celebrate athletic victories. Later, this poetic form was favored among English romantic poets, who used odes to express emotions using rich, descriptive language. Today, we use the term “ode” to describe any outpouring of praise, and modern ode poems have evolved to include various styles and forms.
In the 1965 edition of Ariel, Ted Hughes changed Plath's chosen selection and arrangement by dropping twelve poems, adding twelve composed a few months later and shifting the poems' ordering, in addition to including an introduction by the poet Robert Lowell.
The poem can be read on its surface and admired for its ability to capture a quiet moment, but it could also be interpreted symbolically as a poem about poetry itself. For example, the poetic muse can be the tool (a scythe), and poetry—its whisper suggests—is viewed as a process, a form of labor whose yield is facts, not fantasies of “fay or elf” dreamed up in “idle hours.”.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s exciting and excited sonnet takes part in the centuries-old tradition of amorous sonnets and sonnet sequences (as old as the sonnet form, as Dante and Petrarch), but also draws on the new Victorian kind of poem called the dramatic monologue, which her husband Robert Browning helped to invent. In dramatic monologue a single character’s speech, depicted in real.