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osprey_archer) wrote2019-01-21 08:16 am
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Jean Webster & Adelaide Crapsey
As you may recall, some time ago I posted about discovering a blog about female literary friendships which was accepting guest posts. “I could write about Jean Webster and Adelaide Crapsey,” I mused.
Jean Webster wrote Daddy-Long-Legs - which I feel is long overdue a new film adaptation, one that focuses more on her intellectual development, although there would be the problem of adapting the romance to suit a modern audience. Adelaide Crapsey, meanwhile, invented the cinquain. You may have read her poems without knowing it: she’s often anthologized.
November Night
Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
I wonder if I could read some of these with my coven of fourth-graders. Frost-crisp’d would undoubtedly perplex them.
ANYWAY. I wrote the essay, and it has been posted! Go feast your eyes upon its magnificence.
Jean Webster wrote Daddy-Long-Legs - which I feel is long overdue a new film adaptation, one that focuses more on her intellectual development, although there would be the problem of adapting the romance to suit a modern audience. Adelaide Crapsey, meanwhile, invented the cinquain. You may have read her poems without knowing it: she’s often anthologized.
November Night
Listen…
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees
And fall.
I wonder if I could read some of these with my coven of fourth-graders. Frost-crisp’d would undoubtedly perplex them.
ANYWAY. I wrote the essay, and it has been posted! Go feast your eyes upon its magnificence.
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I'm still turning over the idea of doing cinquains with the kids in my head. The problem is that the structure is less set than haiku - not as easy to explain as counting syllables - I think trying to explain that it's about the pattern of stresses may be too much. On the other hand, "the lines get longer & longer & longer & then - pop!" is pretty self-explanatory. What do you think?
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... But I think there'd be a way of avoiding something quite that formulaic, maybe especially if you had examples.
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Or I could just throw a few of Crapsey's cinquains at them and see what they come up with. That might work too.
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