Day 5: Monday, July 13

• Announcements
• Reading on Perusall due tomorrow at 10 am
• Notation workbook pages due tomorrow at 11:59pm
• Reading in Bradley Book of Rhymes for Wednesday
• Poetic Devices presentation
• Group poem activity
Poetic Devices
Words and Music
Poetic Devices
• Rhyme and rhyme-like
• Form
• Scansion
• Figurative Language
Rhyme and
Rhyme-like: A big black bug bit a big black bear.
alliteration
Rhyme and There is a place where the sidewalk ends,
And before the street begins,
Rhyme-Like: And there the grass grows soft and white,
And there the sun burns crimson bright,
Near rhyme And there the moon bird rests from his flight,
To cool in the peppermint wind.
(or half-
-Shel Silverstein
rhyme)
(a form of poetic license)
Rhyme and
Rhyme-Like: Flood/wood
Been/seen
Eye rhyme Laughter/daughter
 Vowel sound repetition

Rhyme and Black cast

rose float

Rhyme-Like: Time’s scythe

Assonance
Proud cowl
Rhyme and
Rhyme-Like: Consonant sound repetition
Consonance
Onomatopoeia
Oh
CRASH!
My
BASH!
it’s
BANG!
the
ZANG!
Fourth
WHOOSH!
Of
BAROOM!
July
WHEW!
Forms
• Sonnet
• Sestina
• Haiku
• Limerick
• Blank Verse
• Free Verse
Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, Shakespearean
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
Sonnet
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope, 3 Quatrains
With what I most enjoy contented least; 1 Couplet,
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, which is a
Haply I think on thee, and then my state, turn
(Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.
Figurative Language
Metaphor
In a Station of the Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough

Ezra Pound
Similie
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;

T.S. Elliott, ”The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock”

Turn/Volta
• Turn of thought or argument, usually at the end of a poem (sonnet
form especially)
Stressed: /
Unstressed: u
Divide feet: |
Speaker: narrator

Interlocutor: addressee of the speaker—this person may or may not

speak in the poem, but we understand that they are taking part in a
dialogue.

Would you, could you, in a box?

Would you, could you, with a fox?
Apostrophe When a speaker addresses an absent person or inanimate object.

With his ebony hands on each ivory key

He made that poor piano moan with
melody.
O Blues!
Swaying to and fro on his rickety stool
He played that sad raggy tune like a
musical fool.
Sweet Blues!
Coming from a black man's soul.
O Blues!
Enjambment: Continuation of a poetic sentence from one line to the
next.

End-stopped: Line and sentence stop together.

 The Electric Slide Boogie

Audrey Lorde

New Year's Day 1:16 AM

and my body is weary beyond
time to withdraw and rest
ample room allowed me in everyone's head
but community calls
right over the threshold
drums beating through the walls
children playing their truck dramas
under the collapsible coatrack
in the narrow hallway outside my room

The TV lounge next door is wide open

it is midnight in Idaho
and the throb easy subtle spin
of the electric slide boogie
step-stepping
around the corner of the parlor
past the sweet clink
of dining room glasses
and the edged aroma of slightly overdone
dutch-apple pie
all laced together
with the rich dark laughter
of Gloria
and her higher-octave sisters

How hard it is to sleep

in the middle of life.
Group Poetry Activity
• Introduce yourself to your group members!
• I will come to each group to send you your poem.
• On your own (turn off camera): Assign scansion markings to the
poem.
• Compare with your group. Discuss the differences in interpretations.
• What other poetic devices do you notice in your poem? (if time, and
throughout)
• We will reconvene and each group will report (someone will share
their screen and someone will read the poem aloud).
Explication
The attempt to analyse a literary work thoroughly, giving full attention to its
complexities of form and meaning. The term has usually been associated
with the kind of analysis practised in the USA by New Criticism and in Britain
under the name of practical criticism or close reading. Explication in this
sense is normally a detailed explanation of the manner in which the
language and formal structure of a short poem work to achieve a unity
of form and content; such analysis tends to emphasize ambiguities and
complexities of the text while putting aside questions of historical or
biographical context. A less thorough form of analysis is the French school
exercise known as explication de texte, in which students give an account of
a work’s meaning and its stylistic features. in
224......... Adjective: explicatory or explicative. See
also CRITICISM, EXEGESIS, HERMENEUTICS.
Oxford Dictionary of Literary
Terms
Song Setting as Explication
• The original idea of this course!