(Leaf Series) #5- Renaissance (Blank Verse)

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LoveBug

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0 posted 2001-05-26 11:51 AM

Hey guys! I'm sorry that I'm not being regular with these installments of my series, but I'm kinda busy with stuff now. This piece is in blank verse, unrhyming lines of iambic pentameter, created in Italy but perfected by Shakespeare during the time period that I'm writing about. I haven't exactly perfected this style, though!

Oh, and I know that most of my pieces have been about Europe, but I'm going over to China next, so never fear!

‘Twas darkness over Europe, thick as death
No thought, no quest for love and art did live
But then, quite suddenly, the dark was gone
And art and love and thinking came alive!

The light first came to Italy, to men
Who finally saw the value of the arts
Their money poured to men with strength of thought
Who finally had recourses to bank

And from the dark brown bronze, the David rose
And Mona Lisa smiled her famous smile
The Sistine Chapel came to life that time
And Galileo spoke his shocking words

Soon all of Europe felt the light of thought
The patrons of the arts, no longer rare
Then Shakespeare penned down each beloved word
And others brought lost art, beneath the past

We still hold close the artists of that time
The thinkers who, in turn, taught us to think
The darkness that was thoughtless life did lift
The light those thinkers lit, it still shines on

"Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel."-Machiavelli

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1 posted 2001-05-26 03:45 PM

"We still hold close the artists of that time
The thinkers who, in turn, taught us to think
The darkness that was thoughtless life did lift
The light those thinkers lit, it still shines on"...the whole poem was beautiful...but the last stanza i just loved...made me think about it...beautiful...just beautiful...awesome job here...the format was wonderful as well...thanks for sharing and hope to see more...

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2 posted 2001-05-26 07:29 PM

Yes, i agree. Extremely well done. Blank verse is not a simple tool, and you used it well.

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3 posted 2001-05-26 09:02 PM

Well done Erica!!! I really enjoyed this one. You told the history well!

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4 posted 2001-05-27 12:45 PM

excellente!!

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5 posted 2001-05-27 08:07 AM

Truly awesome, Erica. You've captured History in all its glory. *claps* This series is kicking some major butt.

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6 posted 2001-05-27 11:46 AM

This was good, I really liked the way it was written.

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