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Poetry Lecture 2 (January 2022) Final Lecture Version
Poetry Lecture 2 (January 2022) Final Lecture Version
Poetry Lecture 2 (January 2022) Final Lecture Version
• Run-on lines
• Provocative imagery!
• Irregular meter
Use of rhyme
Rhyme: abba
Rhyme in the sestet
Sestet: cdcddd
• One can argue that the rhyme in the sestet
give a sense that the poem ends on an
____________ note.
• Function of eye-rhyme?
• There can be variations to the rhyme
scheme in the octave and sestet
• Answer: _________________________
• Padlet: https://
padlet.com/gyeoh2002/bhof4u9frzatvbhm
• What’s the poem’s broader context? Who
is the poem addressing?
viceroy = governor
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed
through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
• The use of sound
• (1) Simile
• (2) Metaphor
• (3) Alliteration/Consonance
Antonio:
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
Poem C: Bishop “One Art” – a villanelle
gesture/master
• The use of a half-rhyme
• Why?
Conclusion: checklists!
• (1) If you wish, you can use the checklist
given by Barnet and Cain.
• (1) Simile
• (2) Metaphor
• (3) Alliteration/Consonance