Tuesday, January 15, 2013

poetry discussion jan 15



Poetry
Look like: paragraphs, anything you want, triangles, space of the page used in a variety of ways to affect how a poem is read etc…
Structure: shapes, in relation to emotional content; no structure at all (words all over page); stanzas
No punctuation, or it varies
May or not contain words that look or sound like their sounds (Onomatopoeia)
Spacing: line breaks, long or short lines, prose lines(sentences/paragraphs)
Words/language: point of view, speaker voice determines word choice,
Titles (relevance?)
Emotion: aggressive adjectives, description, capitalizing (or not at all), sound (various uses of), alliteration (personification, irony etc)
Concrete (exactly, direct, material, sensory, nouns, descriptive, etc.) vs abstract (interpretation, conceptual)
Senses!!

Sonnet
Short poem
Structure: specific, rhyme (specific scheme shakespeare) or not rhyme, 14 lines, iambic pentameter (Shakespeare; specific # of syllables and stress on every other one);
song
about: love, physical beauty, jealousy, relationships between people and things, hate, time, sex, life/human tendencies

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