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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106 FOUNDATIONS OF ENGLISH POETRY, WEEKS 2-5
WEEK 4: STANZA, RHYME, INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL POETICS including the stanza as a proposition of order, the relation of stanza form to genre, & rhyme's large family of relations
PROSE READING: BOOKS & PHOTOCOPIES: READING ON LINE : Notes
on Classical Poetics, Imitation, Affective & Formalist Theories masculine/feminine rhyme, slant (or half or near) rhyme, internal rhyme, eye rhyme, broken rhyme, alliteration, consonance, assonance; antithesis; stanza, strophe; metaphor, simile, trope, conceit, personification, apostrophe, metonymy, synecdoche, analogy, irony; *Dramatic poetry, Lyric, Narrative poetry, Satire, Genre,
Optional: Metaphysical poetry, love poetry For this week, get your reading off the “Form & Genre Lists.” Sonnets: Read a generous selection from the sonnets listed, including several at the beginning of the tradition. Be sure to include all types: Petrarchan, Shakespearean, Spenserian, Miltonic, & curtal Other stanza forms: Again, read widely in the forms listed below. I recommend you read several poems in each form before switching to another form, in order to get the sound and shape of each one in your ear. Heroic couplet WHAT WE’LL DO IN CLASS 1) Discuss stichic & stanza forms, including heroic & short
couplets, blank verse, quatrain. Come armed with poems you want to talk
about.
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