The canto is a principal form of division in a long poem, especially the epic. The word comes from the Latin cantus, meaning "song," and has a corollary in the Sanskrit kāṇḍa, or "chapter." Famous examples of epic poetry which employ the canto division are Valmiki's The Ramayana (7 cantos), Dante's The Divine Comedy (100 cantos), and Ezra Pound's The Cantos (120 cantos).
Now I don't expect you to give me the epic length but it must at least contain 3
and I repeat 3 vignettes...that means three separate poems within a poem that continue a story. It doesn't mean it has to go on from the first in sequence, if fact most Canto's are related but have other thoughts or go off on tangents from the first one and they are poems that don't necessarily have to end. Therefore you can add and add and add to them.
Go read some examples if you are not sure or even go take a look at a poet on here named Lute...he writes them and they are very very good.
http://allpoetry.com/Lute
Ok, you can reserve and work on it or not reserve and work on it. Edit it up to the close of the contest. Learn something new about poetry and you can also go read my Bel Canto about Helen of Troy which I have just started and have but a mere 4 poems to it so far but I am going to keep going as I enjoy this style of story telling and poetry. Canto Duo - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4542389 :my second one that follows Bel Canto - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4511941
The subject can be anything but it is better to start it with something true to life or historical then branch it out or back to modern thoughts and happenings.
Anymore info just go google Canto's you'll be amazed
If you have one written then you may enter it but be warned if it doesn't fit the style I will DQ!
Remember don't describe me a Canto...write me your own version of one with your own story in it and internal rhyme is ok too.
Now I don't expect you to give me the epic length but it must at least contain 3
and I repeat 3 vignettes...that means three separate poems within a poem that continue a story. It doesn't mean it has to go on from the first in sequence, if fact most Canto's are related but have other thoughts or go off on tangents from the first one and they are poems that don't necessarily have to end. Therefore you can add and add and add to them.
Go read some examples if you are not sure or even go take a look at a poet on here named Lute...he writes them and they are very very good.
http://allpoetry.com/Lute
Ok, you can reserve and work on it or not reserve and work on it. Edit it up to the close of the contest. Learn something new about poetry and you can also go read my Bel Canto about Helen of Troy which I have just started and have but a mere 4 poems to it so far but I am going to keep going as I enjoy this style of story telling and poetry. Canto Duo - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4542389 :my second one that follows Bel Canto - http://allpoetry.com/poem/4511941
The subject can be anything but it is better to start it with something true to life or historical then branch it out or back to modern thoughts and happenings.
Anymore info just go google Canto's you'll be amazed
If you have one written then you may enter it but be warned if it doesn't fit the style I will DQ!
Remember don't describe me a Canto...write me your own version of one with your own story in it and internal rhyme is ok too.
Contest is Over
- Contest was judged on September 8, 2008
- Rewards: Gold: 2000
- Final notes: Well this was a most interesting exercise to say the least. My top two were and always will be worthy of Gold but as site does not allow it I had to choose. They are so well worth reading even though the length may be a problem for some it will be worth the reads I promise you that. Thank you for giving me some of the most enjoyable reads I have had even if I had to wait until the last minute to get some!
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Sicamous Revisited, July 2007
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Fortune has a strange way of
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epic story of ancient times
handed by word of mouth• Commented on by judge. Prewrite
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Prewrites on?? Intentional?
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Seriously? Yes because if anyone apart from Lute has one then I want to read it LOL
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I can't do form poetry
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rubbish!!! The only form to this is the vignettes...smaller poems itemized as I, II, III etc
They are free verse with no syllable count so what are you worried about
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Well, I'm also feeling lazy...
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all i could think of right now was dantes inferno, the translation by pinski, its a shame because this gives me some great ideas, but free verse doesnt work too well in this form, atleast to my eyes, ill definately try to cook something up for you though, give you something to read =P
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it is the famous one along with Pound's I don't mind internal rhyme but you should go read some of Lute's free verse ones they are wonderful and abstract too you'd enjoy them Coop.
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Ooooo Form Poetry!! YEAH!!
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Easy form too SIL, no syllables just give me a story and metaphor..like I said go read some of Lute's and you have seen mine, they are fun to do. A neverending poem
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It is? I must look it up
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Mairi bheag does them superbly, and Lane too. I'll try and find a link to one of theirs done this way.
I've written them (rhyming of course) in metered verse they often have other poetic links, related meter or repeating idioms but as far as I am aware the only rule is that there should be chapters that are different stages of the same story and they cannot flow seamlessly on to the other. I hope that's what Cheryl means anyway
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it's starting to sound hard!!! lol
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How about this ...
i)
I rose to see the sun arise
And sweetly kiss my cheek
I felt a sense of deep surprise
When I first heard it speak
It told me there would be a verse
Of beauty rich and rare
But I would only make it worse
And spread it every where
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Breakfast was cold
and uninviting
no sign at all
of the verse the Sun
had promised.
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I gambled and played all the day
And looked for the verse on the way
Such beauty I saw
But not any more
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Yes Yes!!! lol I knew you'd be able to Jacks the heads up even if it does rhyme and mine dont but eh...it's really well done anyway Thanks Jeff
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nope.. still don't get it.. is it supposed to be form? they all look different..
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I did them all differently on purpose. If I ennter they will be in related forms and linked like classical poetry is, and Cheryl will hate it
I am certain that that is not what she wants though, just write three poems. Just like chapters one three and six of a well written serialisation.
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lol you can enter it however you want Jeff I'll let you, you can go read mine for what they are worth it is just my preferred style as you know but a little bit of internal rhyme crept in here and there and I am upto no.6 with it now because I am enjoying them.
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You explain it much better than me lol thanks Jeff I got tongue tied
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Hrmmm, looking around I don't see much of a definition to this besides a poem made up of different poems. I know Ezra Pound did one...
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Almost like chapters bro...they follow on story to story that's basically all they are...stories usually related back to the previous but it may only be a brief mention not necessarily about the same thing. Pretty free wheeling actually lol
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Alright I am in.
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YAYAY
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Your link to Helen of Troy doesn't work, by the way.
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Now it does
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Fine.
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I might try this, Chez - great idea.
~ Nicolette
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Would love to see one here from you Nicolette, as you have read mine you know how much fun they can be and I have added to it now so it contains 5 Canto's
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You know I'm a Neruda fan, lol. Here is a link to his Canto General (extremely LONG)!!
http://translate.google.co.za/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.geocities.com/revistaversoados/webpoemas/webpoemarios/pn-cantogeneral.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=9&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DPablo%2BNeruda%2527s%2B%2522Canto%2BGeneral%2522%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
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I had a couple Canto's in a poem I hit a wall on..
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I haven't researched the Canto, I've glanced at them, but by your description I think I have a Canto of sorts, it fits your descriptions- each segment a separate vignette (though quite abstract!), a historical backdrop, segments semi-related and story progressing, but going off on tangents... yes, you may have given me a classification for the piece, if not in exact form then in a similar underlying method and madness... I'll have to research the Canto to see if it fits, or comes close, or can at least pass as being in a similar vein...
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