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Birthdays & Birthstones Poetry Prompt—The Tempest as Fairy Tale

By Kortney Garrison 2 Comments

birthday candles poetry promptIn the first act of The Tempest, Prospero tells his daughter Miranda that she is a princess and he is the Duke of Milan.

Prospero: Twelve year since, Miranda, twelve year since,
Thy father was the Duke of Milan and
A prince of power.

Miranda: Sir, are not you my father?

—William Shakespeare, The Tempest

All Miranda knows is life on the island; her father’s words sound like a fairy tale. A similar unveiling happens in The Winter’s Tale. Perdita, the royal daughter, is raised by a shepherd. She finds out her true heritage when she wants to marry a prince.

Megan Willome has been leading a workshop here at Tweetspeak using children’s literature as inspiration for our own writing. These late Shakespearean romances aren’t children’s stories. But there’s something of the fairy tale about them: common girls who fall in love with boys of noble birth.

Try It

Write a fairy tale poem about a royal birth where magic is afoot and things aren’t what they seem. Give attention to place. Island. Middle of the woods. Edge of a misty cliff. Or, try your hand at a Tempest poem, after doing a little research about it.

Photo by Brimstone, Creative Commons, via Flickr. Post by Kortney Garrison.

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Kortney Garrison is a writer, home educator, and Community Director at Read-Aloud Revival.
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  1. Megan Willome says

    May 6, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    Kortney, this is brilliant!

    Reply
    • Kortney Garrison says

      May 8, 2018 at 8:58 am

      Thanks so much, Megan. Excited to see the goodness that comes out of this workshop!

      Reply

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