Creative Thoughts

Imitating Sentence Patterns

1. Model Sentence: To regain the stage in its own character, not as a mere emulation of prose, poetry must find its own poetic way to the mastery the stage demands—the mastery of action.                                                                                                                                            Imitation Sentence: To be an individual, not a clone of society, one must find their inner self      in a unique way – find the integrity of life.

     2.  Model Sentence: He went through the narrow alley of Temple Bar quickly, muttering to himself that they could all go to hell because he was going to have a good night of it.

 Imitation Sentence: She walked through the grocery store briskly, telling herself the quicker she moved the less people she would run into.

 3. Model Sentence: The gallows stood in a small yard, separate from the main grounds of the prison and overgrown with tall prickly weeds.

Imitation Sentence: The flowers grew next the porch, away from the vegetable garden and covered in pollen from bees.

 1. Model Sentence: To regain the stage in its own character, not as a mere emulation of prose, poetry most find its own poetic way to the mastery the stage demands—the mastery of action.

Variation of the Pattern: To find its own poetic way to the mastery of the stage—the mastery of action—one must regain the stage in its own character, not as a mere emulation of prose.

Alternative Expressions: To achieve the mastery of action by finding its own poetic way to the mastery the stage demands, one must regain the stage in its own character, not as a mere emulation of prose.