27 Changing Lines

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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?

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