27 Changing Lines
mcheney
1. Go to the Poetry Foundation website and read some poems.
2. Choose 5 of the poems you read and copy them into a document.
3. Underneath each poem, create a new version by changing the line breaks. Don’t change anything else in the poems, just where the lines break.
3a. Here’s an example:
IN A STATION OF THE METRO
by Ezra Pound
The apparition of these faces in the crowd :
Petals on a wet, black bough .
relineated:
The apparition
of these faces in the
crowd :
Petals on a wet,
black
bough .
4. Write at least 300 words about the effect. Why did you change what you did? How does it change the way you read the poem?
