Open AccessOf Jaguars, Anthropologists, and Cole Porter: Poetry & Revision
Author(s) -
David Cappella
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
learning landscapes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1913-5688
DOI - 10.36510/learnland.v4i1.372
Subject(s) - poetry , reading (process) , order (exchange) , process (computing) , literature , philosophy , art , linguistics , computer science , finance , economics , operating system
The educational purposes of examining the revision process of a specific poem are significant and, to me, profound. It is a specialized teaching tool, one that burrows into the workings of the imagination by encouraging students to ponder specific changes to the various drafts and to discuss them. Such language talk about changes and close reading explicitly reveals those decisive steps that a poet takes in order to allow the real poem to emerge.