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"The goal of an artistic life: to wrest from the personal some form that speaks universally." - Alison H. Deming

"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?" - Benjamin Franklin

Tips for Poets: Overview Page

I. In the Beginning

 

A Preface - So You Want To Be A Poet.

 

The Poetic Triangle - Form, Content and Style

 

II. What's in a Poem?

 

1. Forms - Verse, Rhythm, Feet, (Old Norse) Meters ...

 

2. Style: The Tools of the Trade - Metaphors, Heiti, Kenningar, Contrast...

 

3. Style: All your options

 

III. Some Good Advice

 

1. Before you start writing

 

2. While you write

 

3. After you think you´re finished

 

IV. Helpful Links

 

List of Alliterative Poetry on Odin's Gift
Alliteration
Alliterative Verse Forms

Meadhall - Jack Hart on the different uses and skill levels of endrhyme. Recommended!

List of Odin's Bynames (Heiti)

Ódins Nöfn - Listing of Odin's names in the Icelandic Thulur

List of names of Thor

List of kennings

Wiktionary, the free dictionary - with pronunciation guide, audio files, rhyme guide, synonyms/antonyms...

 

 

Image: "Letter Planet", © Markus Gann, www.begann.de. Used by permission.
Image "Norse Heathen Poetry" © Michaela Macha

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