The Virtues of Poetry: Revising

1. Refrains have a higher purpose: tone, meaning...

2. Verb Tense Shifts: intending them can add experience to a poem, making the poem not just about what is said but how it is being said and who is saying it...

3. The Sound of Thinking:

• The meditative
• The calculative

4. Parallel Syntaxes

• we came unwanted, we saw materials, we delivered measals

5. Using asides to integrate emotional mindset of speaker

6. The power of detail--restrain from emotion and saying by focusing on description of what can be see, heard, smelled, etc. (Bishop and Lowell)

7. Why do we write poems? Why did I write this poem?