Tuesday, January 15, 2013

poetry discussion jan 15


Poetry
Mysterious; no specific particular meaning or thoughts/feelings but more open to reader interpretation; multiple possible ways of reading; layers of meaning
(literal and metaphorical)
No set style
Metaphor (lots!)
Imagery!!! Other senses used a lot too… sensory description/evoke senses
Not in traditional stanzas; paragraphs/prose/long lines; line breaks; visual use
of page space
Reader interpretation/understanding is (more) open
Emotion: word choice (onomonopia; sound words; personification,
Concrete(see, touch, smell; descriptive etc) vs abstract(not material; freedom,
peace, love, etc…)
made up words; invention
rhythm; sound; words; alliteration; patterns; repetition
rhyme or no rhyme (often there’s not)



Sonnets
Couplet (final 2 lines “in conclusion” or turn around, etc)
Structure: rhyme scheme (Shakespeare); long lines; sound structure (iambic pentameter—syllables and stress on particular syllables); 14 lines long
No structure/other structure: more spacing of words/lines; Mullen: doesn’t finish sentences, runs on from one line to the next, no punctuation
Play with/change idea of sonnet form; modernize sonnet

“About”: love, different ways of love, modern interpret of Shakespeare love,
physical beauty, hardship/challenges, sex, teen pregnancy
-references to other poets/poems/traditions

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