The Croft Poetry Club
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We are a welcoming and inclusive club with lots of enthusiasm for hearing, writing, studying and discussing poetry.
Here are the dates of our forthcoming meetings:
Thursday 4th October at the Croft Tea Room (9.30am - 10.45am). Theme: Change.
Thursday 18th October at St Mary's Church Centre (10.30am - 11.30am). Theme: Chivalry - Gallantry - Valour.
Admission to our meetings at the Croft Tea Room: £5 for tea / coffee + cake.
Here are the dates of our forthcoming meetings:
Thursday 4th October at the Croft Tea Room (9.30am - 10.45am). Theme: Change.
Thursday 18th October at St Mary's Church Centre (10.30am - 11.30am). Theme: Chivalry - Gallantry - Valour.
Admission to our meetings at the Croft Tea Room: £5 for tea / coffee + cake.
Poetry books on sale at the Croft Tea Room include Marvellous Dreams the new anthology of original art and poetry by members and friends of the Croft Poetry Club. You can also buy at the Croft Tea Room the poetry books by club members Beverley Gillard and Linda Needham.
Art & Artists: The Croft Poetry Club meeting 6th September 2018.
What do the following famous artists have in common? - Brueghel, Tracey Emin, Modigliani, Henry Moore, Vincent van Gogh and John Waterhouse? Answer: When the Croft Poetry Club chose art and artists as theme for the September meeting attended by 14 members at the Croft Tea Room, these artists were featured in the fine variety of verse that was heard. The poets included Emily Dickinson, U.A. Fanthorpe and Lord Alfred Tennyson. One of many highlights was a recital of Don McLean's hit song Vincent relating the tragic story of Vincent van Gogh. Image: Brenda Smith's pastel drawing of Starry Night after Vincent van Gogh. |
The Metaphor: Croft Poetry Club meetings in April and May 2018.
On theme of the metaphor, our members were led by Monica in a most enjoyable and instructive pair of meetings at St Mary's Church Centre. How to distinguish a simile from a metaphor? That little question on its own proved to be engaging. Perhaps it's true to say that in poetry and indeed in everyday speech, the simile is used much more often: the comparison of one thing with another of a different kind e.g. 'as brave as a lion'. The metaphor is different because it applies a name or descriptive term or phrase to an object or action to which is it is imaginatively but not literally applicable e.g. (as Shakespeare wrote) 'all the world's a stage'. And let's add here that a famous and much-enjoyed poem like 'The Road Less Travelled' (by Robert Frost) is an example of a 'sustained metaphor.' Members rose admirably to the challenge of composing a short poem that contained at least one metaphor. Many of us confessed that this was difficult ... or, at least, more difficult than we might have anticipated. But certainly it was a valuable, and fun, learning exercise. Thank you, Monica. Photo: Shakespeare statue, Leicester Square in London. |
