Poetry, often honored as the language of the soul, is a unique form of expression that eclipses traditional prose. Meter serves as one of the key contributors to confer the beauty and cadence to poetry. Meter, in the realm of poetry, is akin to the heartbeat that gives life to the verses. It is the systematic disposition of stressed and unstressed syllables that paints a picture with the sounds which shapes the poem's emotional impact and intellectual resonance. Meter functions as an apparatus for poetic expression, allowing poets to choreograph language with precision and artistry.
Study of meter along with rhyme, accents, syllables, rhythm etc. is called Prosody. Number of beats in a line tells how lengthy a verse is like tetrameter, pentameter etc. and arrangement of beats in a line tells which meter is applied like iambic meter, trochee meter etc. In some poems meter is not used, in some rhyme is not used and (Blank verse), in some poems, both are not used (Free verse).
Poetry, often honored as the language of the soul, is a unique form of expression that eclipses traditional prose. Meter serves as one of the key contributors to confer the beauty and cadence to poetry. Meter, in the realm of poetry, is akin to the heartbeat that gives life to the verses. It is the systematic disposition of stressed and unstressed syllables that paints a picture with the sounds which shapes the poem's emotional impact and intellectual resonance. Meter functions as an apparatus for poetic expression, allowing poets to choreograph language with precision and artistry.
Poetry, often honored as the language of the soul, is a unique form of expression that eclipses traditional prose. Meter serves as one of the key contributors to confer the beauty and cadence to poetry. Meter, in the realm of poetry, is akin to the heartbeat that gives life to the verses. It is the systematic disposition of stressed and unstressed syllables that paints a picture with the sounds which shapes the poem's emotional impact and intellectual resonance. Meter functions as an apparatus for poetic expression, allowing poets to choreograph language with precision and artistry.
Study of meter along with rhyme, accents, syllables, rhythm etc. is called Prosody. Number of beats in a line tells how lengthy a verse is like tetrameter, pentameter etc. and arrangement of beats in a line tells which meter is applied like iambic meter, trochee meter etc. In some poems meter is not used, in some rhyme is not used and (Blank verse), in some poems, both are not used (Free verse).
Poetry, often honored as the language of the soul, is a unique form of expression that eclipses traditional prose. Meter serves as one of the key contributors to confer the beauty and cadence to poetry. Meter, in the realm of poetry, is akin to the heartbeat that gives life to the verses. It is the systematic disposition of stressed and unstressed syllables that paints a picture with the sounds which shapes the poem's emotional impact and intellectual resonance. Meter functions as an apparatus for poetic expression, allowing poets to choreograph language with precision and artistry.
This weeks poems are fixed forms forms with tight constraints rochellwa9f
This week's poems are
fixed forms
: forms with tight constraints on variables like number of lines, meter, line-length, rhyme, or line ending words. First, sonnets: by three sixteenth century authors participating in the vogue of writing long sequences of sonnets devoted to (mostly) unrequited love, and then by four twentieth century authors who use the form to different ends. Second, villanelles: another poem by Bishop, and one by Martha Collins (a wonderful poet who lives hear Harvard Square). Finally, a poem that invents a new form, initially as a tribute to Brooks and now used by other writers. Hayes has a weekly column in the NYT Magazine featuring a poem by someone else that he likes with a few sentences about why; if this tickles your fancy, check it out.
Things to mark up/questions to ask when you read a poem (a running list):
This is an expansion of the questions in the first poetry analysis.
Are there repetitions, exact ("cold dark deep and absolutely clear") or with variation ("the squat pen rests [, snug as a gun.][. I’ll dig with it]")? Pay attention to them!
Are there regularities in line length?
What controls or motivates the end of a line?
If the lines aren’t all the same number of syllables (aka, in a regular meter), does variation in line length correlate to anything in the poem?
Ask the same question about stanzas—if there is not a regular stanza form (as in Heaney, "Digging"), where do verse paragraphs get longer or shorter?
If there is (as in Moore, "The Fish," e.g.), how do topics (and sometimes sentences) get distributed in and across stanzas?
Is there an organized rhythm?
If yes, are there places of important variation in pattern or emphasis?
Think also about repeated patterns of syntax as contributing to rhythm (e.g., 3x "Adjective was the noun I verbed," in Dunbar), and notice where these patterns of syntax change (as in the last line of that poem).
Are units of meaning (phrases and sentences) aligned with units of meter, so lines end with punctuation—or not?
Are there places that stand out as different, as in, the only end-stopped line or enjambment or caesuras?
Or does the general "habit" of the poem (e.g., to end each line with punctuation) change at some point?
What places and times exist in the poem?
Does the verb tense or mood shift (e.g. from past to present, from declarative—"I saw"—to conditional—"I would have seen")?
Who is in it? Where and when are they?
Where: "offstage", near/far in Frost.
When: remembered past, Yeats; past + ongoing present, Whitman.
Who is speaking and being spoken to or about? Pronouns: I, we, they, you (who?), one (so formal and impersonal!).
Are there key terms ("home") being evaluated and/or vocabularies of words grouped under related concepts (worth and value)?
Questions to ask about a poem: if they seem boring/trivial OR too hard/confusing to answer, they might not be the most revealing questions about a given ...
A clicker style question that gives the wavelength of a standing wave and asks the learner to identify the corresponding envelope from five choices. Solution explores two methods to identify the correct envelope--one discusses the wavelength and the length of the string, while the second explores an approach incorporating antinodes.
This slideshow was prepared for my students at PVS College of Arts & Science. This is to be used by the teacher community the world over to teach elements of poetry to UG students of Indian Universities. This is prepared as per the syllabus of UG programme in English of University of Calicut. Your opinion on Elements of Poetry and this slideshow can be incorporated here.
Tragic Plot-Its constituent parts, Importance of plot, Poet as a maker of plot not story, The construction of plot, the magnitude of plot, organic unity of plot, Fatal and fortunate plots, peripety and anagnorisis, complication and denouement, Freytag pyramid, Aristortle's concern, Dramatic unities
Difference from Plato's Concept of Imitation, New Dimensions, Poetry linked with Music, Medium of Poetic Imitation, Object of Imitation, Manner of Imitation, Artistic Imitation: A Process of Ordering and Arranging
This weeks poems are fixed forms forms with tight constraints rochellwa9f
This week's poems are
fixed forms
: forms with tight constraints on variables like number of lines, meter, line-length, rhyme, or line ending words. First, sonnets: by three sixteenth century authors participating in the vogue of writing long sequences of sonnets devoted to (mostly) unrequited love, and then by four twentieth century authors who use the form to different ends. Second, villanelles: another poem by Bishop, and one by Martha Collins (a wonderful poet who lives hear Harvard Square). Finally, a poem that invents a new form, initially as a tribute to Brooks and now used by other writers. Hayes has a weekly column in the NYT Magazine featuring a poem by someone else that he likes with a few sentences about why; if this tickles your fancy, check it out.
Things to mark up/questions to ask when you read a poem (a running list):
This is an expansion of the questions in the first poetry analysis.
Are there repetitions, exact ("cold dark deep and absolutely clear") or with variation ("the squat pen rests [, snug as a gun.][. I’ll dig with it]")? Pay attention to them!
Are there regularities in line length?
What controls or motivates the end of a line?
If the lines aren’t all the same number of syllables (aka, in a regular meter), does variation in line length correlate to anything in the poem?
Ask the same question about stanzas—if there is not a regular stanza form (as in Heaney, "Digging"), where do verse paragraphs get longer or shorter?
If there is (as in Moore, "The Fish," e.g.), how do topics (and sometimes sentences) get distributed in and across stanzas?
Is there an organized rhythm?
If yes, are there places of important variation in pattern or emphasis?
Think also about repeated patterns of syntax as contributing to rhythm (e.g., 3x "Adjective was the noun I verbed," in Dunbar), and notice where these patterns of syntax change (as in the last line of that poem).
Are units of meaning (phrases and sentences) aligned with units of meter, so lines end with punctuation—or not?
Are there places that stand out as different, as in, the only end-stopped line or enjambment or caesuras?
Or does the general "habit" of the poem (e.g., to end each line with punctuation) change at some point?
What places and times exist in the poem?
Does the verb tense or mood shift (e.g. from past to present, from declarative—"I saw"—to conditional—"I would have seen")?
Who is in it? Where and when are they?
Where: "offstage", near/far in Frost.
When: remembered past, Yeats; past + ongoing present, Whitman.
Who is speaking and being spoken to or about? Pronouns: I, we, they, you (who?), one (so formal and impersonal!).
Are there key terms ("home") being evaluated and/or vocabularies of words grouped under related concepts (worth and value)?
Questions to ask about a poem: if they seem boring/trivial OR too hard/confusing to answer, they might not be the most revealing questions about a given ...
A clicker style question that gives the wavelength of a standing wave and asks the learner to identify the corresponding envelope from five choices. Solution explores two methods to identify the correct envelope--one discusses the wavelength and the length of the string, while the second explores an approach incorporating antinodes.
This slideshow was prepared for my students at PVS College of Arts & Science. This is to be used by the teacher community the world over to teach elements of poetry to UG students of Indian Universities. This is prepared as per the syllabus of UG programme in English of University of Calicut. Your opinion on Elements of Poetry and this slideshow can be incorporated here.
Tragic Plot-Its constituent parts, Importance of plot, Poet as a maker of plot not story, The construction of plot, the magnitude of plot, organic unity of plot, Fatal and fortunate plots, peripety and anagnorisis, complication and denouement, Freytag pyramid, Aristortle's concern, Dramatic unities
Difference from Plato's Concept of Imitation, New Dimensions, Poetry linked with Music, Medium of Poetic Imitation, Object of Imitation, Manner of Imitation, Artistic Imitation: A Process of Ordering and Arranging
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• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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2. The Foot
It is a basic metrical unit which consists normally of
one accented (stressed) syllable plus one or two
unaccented (unstressed) syllable.
A slanting line /indicates the division between feet.
3. Types of Feet
Iambic
A foot with one unstressed syllable followed by
one stressed syllable.
For Example
the Sun x = unstressed
(x −) − = stressed
the University
(x −)
4. Types continued…
Trochaic
A foot with one stressed syllable followed by one
unstressed syllable.
For Example
went to
(− x)
prone towards
(− x)
5. Types continued…
Anapestic
A foot with two unstressed syllables followed by
one stressed syllable.
For Example
to the shore
(x x −)
till the end
(x x −)
6. Types continued…
Dactylic
A foot with one stressed syllable followed by two
unstressed syllables.
For Example
en-ter-prise
(− x x)
Unity is strength
(− x x)
7. The Line
The second unit of measurement.
It is measured by naming the number of feet in it.
It shows that both these units of measurements are
interdependent.
Different names are given to show different number(s)
of feet in a single line.
8. Different Names of the Line
Monometer
A line of one foot.
For Example
/One crow/
Dimeter
A line of two feet.
For Example
/The pitch/ /pines fade/
9. Names continued…
Trimeter
A line of three feet.
For Example
/The trees/ /a-round/ /were tall/
Tetrameter
A line of four feet.
For Example
/I have wrapped/ /my dreams/ /in silk/ /en cloth/
10. Names continued…
Pentameter
A line of five feet.
For Example
/All things/ /with-in/ /this fad/ /ing world/ /hath end/
Hexameter
A line of six feet.
Heptameter
A line of seven feet.
Octameter
A line of eight feet.
11. The Stanza
It is the third unit of measurement.
It consists of a group of lines whose metrical pattern is
repeated throughout the poem.
The number of stanzas in a single poem depends upon
the length of that poem.
A long poem may consist of several stanzas, even
books, for example John Milton’s Paradise Lost.
While a short poem may be consisting of only two
stanzas, for example William Blake’s “The Sick Rose”.
12. Blank Verse
It is a poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Often a serious subject is best dealt with in unrhymed
lines.
It differs from prose in the way of having stressed and
unstressed pattern in the lines.
For Example
John Milton’s Paradise Lost
13. Free Verse
As the name suggests it is a type of poetry which is not
written in a regular rhythmical pattern, or meter.
It is, by definition, no verse at all.
The length of the lines are not equal i.e. one line may
be very small and the next one might be very long.
14. Scansion
It is the process of measuring verse.
For Example
/I wan/ /dered lone/ /ly as / /a cloud/
(x −) (x −) (x −) (x −)
To scan any specimen of verse, we do three things:
1. We identify the prevailing foot;
2. We name the number of feet in a line; and
3. We describe the stanza pattern
15. Example
I wandered lonely as a Cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and Hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden Daffodils;
Beside the Lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
1. Name of the foot: Iambic (x −)
2. Number of feet in a line: 4 (tetrameter)
3. Stanza of six lines
4. Rhyme-scheme: abab cc
