Today, please select a new poet's work to read and work with. In the lab, please complete the following tasks:
Diction: word choice. Select words in your poem carefully to carry the most meaning. All words have a denotative meaning and a connotative meaning. Understatement, euphemism, and other rhetorical strategies may be used to affect a poem's diction. Speaking to your elderly grandparents uses a different diction than speaking to your "homies".
Voice: The agent or "speaker" speaking through the poem. Also called the "persona".
Tone: Often the attitude of your speaker or the voice. Identified in a poem by diction.
HOMEWORK: Read your chosen poet's chapbook. Bring your book to next class to work with it.
1. Continue working on the eLearning module 1. If you haven't started this module yet, you are falling far behind. Please use the time in the lab to get caught up.Poetry Vocabulary: PLEASE STUDY THESE TERMS!
2. Read your poet's collection of poems.
3. Type up poems you have written in your journal. As you type up poems, consider the FORM and STRUCTURE of your lines (consider meter, rhythm, length of line, use of patterns or type of poem like lyric, narrative poems, or prose poem) as well as the diction, tone, and voice of your work. Avoid inversion and informational language. Check your own grammar and syntax.
Diction: word choice. Select words in your poem carefully to carry the most meaning. All words have a denotative meaning and a connotative meaning. Understatement, euphemism, and other rhetorical strategies may be used to affect a poem's diction. Speaking to your elderly grandparents uses a different diction than speaking to your "homies".
Voice: The agent or "speaker" speaking through the poem. Also called the "persona".
Tone: Often the attitude of your speaker or the voice. Identified in a poem by diction.
- Tone can be formal or informal depending on the diction a poet uses.
- Tone can be ironic, sarcastic, serious, pedantic, or hyperbolic depending on the voice a poet selects.
- Tone can be positive or negative or neutral. Selecting one of these tones can or should affect your diction.
Metrical Feet: Two classifications of poetry: open forms; closed forms.
A closed form (traditional poetry), cadence groups form a pattern.
An open form (free verse, mainly), cadence groups do not form a set pattern.
Poetry in open forms tends to stress meaning over versification.
Syllables: individual units of rhythm in a word or line.
Stress: this class. Also, the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word.
Unstressed: lighter stress, not so heavy as the stress above.
Metrical feet:
Enjambement (enjambment): If a line has no punctuation at the end and runs over to the next line, it is called run-on or better yet, enjambement (enjambment).
A closed form (traditional poetry), cadence groups form a pattern.
An open form (free verse, mainly), cadence groups do not form a set pattern.
Poetry in open forms tends to stress meaning over versification.
Syllables: individual units of rhythm in a word or line.
Stress: this class. Also, the emphasis placed on a syllable in a word.
Unstressed: lighter stress, not so heavy as the stress above.
Metrical feet:
1-foot = monometer2 Syllable Feet:
2-foot = dimeter
3-foot = trimeter
4-foot = tetrameter
5-foot = pentameter (the meter used in sonnets and blank verse lines; very common)
6-foot = hexameter
7-foot = heptameter
8-foot = octameter
9-foot = nonameter
10-foot = decameter
Iambic: stress is on the second of two syllable words: ex. reTURN, beCAUSE, atTACK, etc.3 Syllable Feet:
Trochee: reverse of the Iambic, stress is on the first of two syllables: MOTHer, SISter, BORing.
Spondee: Both syllables are stressed.
Anapest: stress is on the last syllable of a three syllabled word. Ex. Chevro-LET, rockandROLLCaesura: (plural: caesurae) a pause separating cadence groups (however brief) within a line. If the pause is a result of the end of a line pause, then this is end-stopping.
Dactyl: stress on first syllable followed by two non stressed. Ex. BU-da-pest, FOR-tu-nate
Enjambement (enjambment): If a line has no punctuation at the end and runs over to the next line, it is called run-on or better yet, enjambement (enjambment).
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