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How to Write a Pantoum Infographic: Pantoum of the Opera

By Will Willingham 24 Comments

A certain poet I know claimed that writing a pantoum felt like being dragged down the cold, winding steps to the catacombs. But we’ve been writing pantoums long enough this month that we know it doesn’t have to be like that. Some have even found that writing form poetry offers a certain freedom.

To help you see how to write a pantoum, and get your poetry out of the dungeon, we’ve put together another helpful infographic.

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I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Comments

  1. Elizabeth W. Marshall says

    March 27, 2013 at 8:15 am

    Oh JOY, was this just for me?!?!? I love it. And now I am really looking forward to writing my next pantoum. This is a great tool. Ya’ll surprise me everyday with your poetic goodnesses. 🙂

    Reply
  2. L. L. Barkat says

    March 27, 2013 at 9:36 am

    if a certain poet I know loved writing form poetry, these infographics wouldn’t be half as fun as they are.

    carry on 😉

    Reply
  3. Maureen Doallas says

    March 27, 2013 at 9:05 am

    Love this! You are, bar none, the best when it comes to creating poetry info-graphics.

    Can’t you just hear the music
    what the pantoum makes its own?
    A swing from a light, a fall in dark night
    oh, surely, you’ll flee from your room.

    Reply
  4. Donna says

    March 27, 2013 at 9:34 am

    I feel I should try to for this into an unlimited series of 4 line stanzas, but really I have only two words: WONDERFUL!

    Reply
  5. Megan Willome says

    March 28, 2013 at 9:30 am

    I fell in love with Phantom when it came to the stage, and now I’ve fallen in love with your infographic.

    Reply
  6. Monica Sharman says

    April 1, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    I only know Phantom of the Opera as a musical (saw it three times on stage), so this is totally appropriate to me, that you’d connect Phantom with pantoum. (Thinking of the repeated melodic themes that appear throughout the musical.)

    Reply
  7. Moya says

    April 10, 2013 at 10:22 am

    I am a fan mixing media. Such a fun read! And I now know what a pantoum is 🙂

    Reply
  8. Moya says

    April 10, 2013 at 10:24 am

    *i am also a fan OF mixing media 😉

    Reply

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