Thursday

 Today we will discuss your explications and then continue our discussion on  TONE. Finally, we will look at chapter 11.

HOMEWORK: Read chapters 8 and 9. Write a journal/blog entry about how tone works in one of the poems we have read: "Love in Brooklyn" "The Telephone" or "The Flea"

Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause over a line-break. Enjambment would fall under the category of syntax.


Why would a poet use enjambment? To create interest by breaking standard syntax; to create tension; to create different levels or duality of meanings.

Questions to ask about enjambment:

Syntax: How do the poet’s syntactical choices change or expand the ideas in the poem?

1) Enjambment: How are lines broken? Are they broken before a grammatical or logical completion of a thought to create an enjambment? Or are they end-stopped, breaking after the completion of a sentence or other grammatical pauses? How does the use of enjambment create a duality of meaning in the lines?


No, enjambment is not always
better, but sometimes,
if you cut the line just
right, it produces a tension-
resolution effect.

Other times it makes the
lines harder to read.

Some poets break their lines
at exact syntactic boundaries.
This generates a high degree of predictability,
which makes the poem less interesting.




Click the link
  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/49493/i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in


My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -
It gives a lovely light.

- Millay



Chapter 11: Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance: 899-907, various poems

POETRY TEST: THINGS TO KNOW

Elements: Know both definitions and examples
Imagery, denotation, connotation, irony – verbal, situational, dramatic, sarcasm, metaphor, personification, metonymy, apostrophe, synecdoche, symbol, allegory, paradox, overstatement, understatement, allusion, tone, alliteration, assonance, consonance, internal rime, slant rime, end rime, approximate rime, refrain, meter, iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl, spondee, monosyllabic foot, line, stanza, cacophony, caesura, enjambment, onomatopoeia

Forms:
Structure, line breaks, how the poem looks, rhyme and rhythm and how it is created
Blues, Sestina, Villanelle, Pantoum, Sonnet (English, Italian, Spenserian, and hybrid), haiku, quatrain, tercets, couplets, litany, ballad.

Poems:
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “Home Burial” “Heights of Machu Picchu” “The Flea” “My Last Duchess” “The Wastelands” “To His Coy Mistress”, “The Waste Lands” “Nani” “The Colonel” “One Art” “Fern Hill” “The Waking” “My Mistress’ Eyes” “The Second Coming”