The Spiral Stairwell: Mother Love

Monday 14 December 2009

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Mother Love by Rita Dove.

Calling upon the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Mother Love examines the love between mother and daughter, two tumblers locked in an eternal somersault: each mother a daughter, each daughter a potential mother.

Note: Why can I not find her poem "Mother Love" online?

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The Plan

week	Topics
1	‘In the beginning was the word’: creation myths
2	‘It’s all a lie, but there’s a why’: parables and fables, fairy and folk tales
3	‘What is Poetry?’—the Good, the bad and the ugly
4	Poetry and ‘the Condition of Music’
5	Scratching the Surface of Poetry—and Diving Deep
6	Silence! (in Poetry)
7	Style: Your Own Personality
9	Stealing, Alluding and Answering in Poetry (nothing new—and Homer did it too)
10	Poetry: Building Your House
11	‘And Then And Then’: telling (tall) stories
12	‘Who’s Talking?’—style in fiction
13	‘The Art of Saying Less’—implicating the reader
14	Revisioning. Radical and refining rewrites.

week

Topics

1

‘In the beginning was the word’: creation myths

2

‘It’s all a lie, but there’s a why’: parables and fables, fairy and folk tales

3

‘What is Poetry?’—the Good, the bad and the ugly

4

Poetry and ‘the Condition of Music’

5

Scratching the Surface of Poetry—and Diving Deep

6

Silence! (in Poetry)

7

Style: Your Own Personality

9

Stealing, Alluding and Answering in Poetry (nothing new—and Homer did it too)

10

Poetry: Building Your House

11

‘And Then And Then’: telling (tall) stories

12

‘Who’s Talking?’—style in fiction

13

‘The Art of Saying Less’—implicating the reader

14

Revisioning.

Radical and refining rewrites.

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