A Poem From the Professor’s Journal ~ Wheel (quintain)
Wheel – A Poem From the Professor’s Journal
by Lynda McKinney Lambert
October 17, 2022 – 2022
The Poem: Wheel (Quintain)
Wheel is a Quintain that I wrote in 1991 in my notebook.
wheel
round, rotund
propel, force, control
You must steer your own car.
wheel
The Backstory:
Wheel is a Quintain, an early poem in my writing career. I wrote Wheel in my journal in a poetry course in 1991. We were studying the Quintain form in our classroom.
When I wrote this poem, I was a student at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania. I was working on an MA degree in English.
In the spring of 1991, I graduated from West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, with an MFA in Painting.
It took another four years to complete the MA degree. Finally, I received that degree in the spring of 1994.
I think movement and travel were dominant themes because I worked on the MA in English degree from several countries and three states in the USA.
Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Canada, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, and California.
“Wheel” is significant because I worked several jobs and traveled extensively during those years.
I imagined my car could drive without any directions to and from all the places where I worked and studied. This poem captures my state of mind in the early summer of 1991.
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More about the Quintain/Cincaine HERE.
Line 1, write one word, your subject – a noun.
On line 2, describe your subject in 2 words – adjectives
Line 3, put an action using 4 verbs
Line 4 is a feeling or statement
Line 5, a conclusion or restatement of the one-word subject.
- A Quintain is often called a quintet
- This can be a poem or a stanza with five lines.
- It can follow any meter or line length.
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