Discussion & Workshop
(Thursday Evening, 730pm, March 6, 2025)
EASTERN SHORE WRITERS ASSOCIATION, MD, VIA ZOOM
This month, I am hosting an online workshop to discuss and have fun with the last lines of poems, eight kinds, through the Eastern Shore Writers Association, and registration is free. Link below with more details.
It has been interesting to see different poets do different things, as I have prepared for this presentation. For instance, the famous couplet conclusion of a Shakespearean sonnet (conclusion ending) resonates with a less obvious imagistic closing tercet of Jack Gilbert’s “A Brief for the Defense” (image ending).
Right now I have eight kinds of endings in my taxonomy. Of course, I consider these eight categories, as applied, often primary. That is, usually there are other resonances afoot.
For instance, Shakespeare’s closing couplet in Sonnet 18 concludes the poem’s argument, but also resonates by refocusing on many levels, say from season to art, when compared to the opening line. Likewise, Gilbert in the above poem uses an image that creates an open-ended resonance, yet on further examination, the image also summarizes the poem’s argument as well as shifts the poem’s opening theme when compared to its first line.
Link below with more details.
LINK: https://www.easternshorewriters.org/event-6073413
Cheers,
G. H. Mosson