Weekly Outline
Week 1, 1/14 -- Introductions
Week 2, 1/21 -- What is literature? What is identity?
Week 3, 1/28 -- Narration, paper #1 due
Week 4, 2/4 -- Character, Setting, Symbol, Theme
Week 5, 2/11 -- Quiz #1, film
Week 6, 2/18 -- Poetry
Week 7, 2/25 - - Poetry, paper #2 due
Week 8, 3/4 -- Poetry
Week 9, 3/11 -- Poetry, paper #3 due
Week 10, 3/18 -- (out of class work on blog)
Week 11, 3/25 -- SPRING BREAK
Week 12, 4/1 -- Quiz #2 on poetry, Theory
Week 13, 4/8 -- Poetry paper #4 due, Theory, film
Week 14, 4/15 -- Theory
Week 15, 4/22 -- Theory, quiz #3
Week 16, 4/29 -- Paper #5 due
Week 17, 5/6 - Final Exam PARTY
1. Poetry originally began as an oral phenomenon. Many cultures would chant and recite words and use musical instruments as well. It is easier to remember repeating words and also helps with emphasis. Poetry was also believed to happen in your "mind's ear" and in your voice. Poets would choose certain words since they had a distinct sound that made the poem unique.
ReplyDelete2. Ancient Greeks were the first to create a vocabulary and meter to understand poetry. In the English language, the stressed syllables are what is being measured. Different types of poetry is determined based on how many syllables are in each line and overall.
-Natalie Diciaula
1. Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. Cultures have used poetry even when they may not have realized it. Cultures would chant or play certain beats that meant different things which was a form of poetry. They use rhyming to make things easier to remember and put a lot of emphasis on what they are saying.
ReplyDelete2. Poets use a tool called structure, even though not all poems follow a structure. A poems meter is the poem's rhythm structure, and it is usually established by having a certain pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in the words on each line.
-Stephen Stroop
1. Rhythm and poetry go hand in hand because life has a rhythm. Poetry is used to express stories, whether fictional or realistic, and by using a rhyme scheme it adds more emphasis. When poetry began, only the smartest intellects were writing, by using rhythm they could prove how intelligent they were.
ReplyDelete2. Poetic meter works by identifying syllables that are stressed and syllables that are not stressed. The pattern of stressed syllables give a type of rhythm structure and each poem has a unique structure.
1. A rhyme is brought upon for a certain purpose of a pleasing effect to a poem which makes this a very pleasing experience. It helps children learn because they love reading them and patterns gives them a great technique to make learning easier.
ReplyDelete2. It’s a technique to follow poems and structure. Such as poems can be broken into stanzas and paragraphs. The breaking of text is planned or to break sentences in the middle.
- Hampton schaffer
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The English are and have always been a religious society, especially as Christians. In early times before the invention of the printing press the leaders who were normally priests needed a more effective way to spread the word to people of all academic levels. The idea that rhyming could produce sounds more captivating to the listener. Rhyming also played a large role in music, which was a huge part of the church.
ReplyDelete2. Poetic meter is the specific method of how a song or poem should be written and what it must consist of. There are several different type of meters that are specifically formulated for different types of audiences these include syllabic and falling meters off the top of my head. Poetic meter also allows the church to have more control over how writings are published.
1. Poetry can take on many different forms. Poetry can be shown in song (and songs generally sound a lot better when they rhyme), and other means such as literary works. In ancient times, religious poetry was chanted by religious leaders because the common folk were unable to read Latin. Poetry can be tied back to probably long before written language, and songs can be together in poetry. Rhyming made the songs more memorable and passionate.
ReplyDelete2. Poetry’s poetic meter stresses and doesn’t stress certain syllables in order to make the poem more favorable to the reader. It can lead to a beautiful structure and the different rhythm can actually change the meaning of a poem in a way. For example, a poem that is childish about a silly wolf chasing kids can sound adventurous is read fast, but if you change where syllables are stressed, it can become an unnerving poem very quickly.
- Elizabeth Clemmons
1. Rhyme has become so important to English poetry because there is a focus on the poem "flowing" well. It is considered a rule that the poem has to sound well when read, so rhyming is important to that. It also makes poetry easier to remember if there is a set rhyme scheme it follows.
ReplyDelete2 Meter is a something that is used to understand how poetry is organized. It is the stressed and unstressed syllable of the poem, and having a good order of which will make the poem easier to read. In poetry, there are many different types of meter that one can use, and all effect how the poem sounds. The meter of a poem can effect the overall tone of it.
Allison McDowell
1. Rhyme has traditionally been seen as central to English poetry because poems that rhyme are easier to remember and recite. Poems that rhyme enable the words to flow smoothly out of the speaker’s mouth.
ReplyDelete2. Poetic meter is the amount of syllables contained on a foot. The most common and basic meter of all sonnets in English is iambic pentameter.
Joseph Ledo-Massey
1. Rhyme has mainly been seen as central to English Poetry for many reasons. Rhyme allowed others to effectively understand what was trying to be relayed from priest and higher religious figures. Rhyming not only made words easier to understand, but added a little something that would make them unforgettable.
ReplyDelete2. The poetic meter provides the poem with structure that sets it apart from all the others. With this meter a poet is able to stress certain things and dull others. Poetic meters can be used to add flare to a previously boring poem.
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1. Rhyming has allowed for others to understand what was trying to be relayed from priest and other religious figures. The rhyming allowed for the religious chants to be more memorable and passionate.
ReplyDelete2.The poetic meter is used to measure patterns of stressed syllables that occur. The syllables are measured in what is called a foot.
-William Canaday
1. Because poetry was originally an oral art (most poems were not written down until later), poetry used the music of rhyme to help the listener remember the poem. It was a lot easier for the listener and the reciter to remember a poem that rhymes as to one that doesn't.
ReplyDelete2. Ancient Greeks were the first to establish a vocabulary for discussing poetry. They used the words rhythm and meter. Meter means measure in greek. Most traditional poetry in English uses the accentual-syllabic form of meter, meaning its rhythmic pattern is based on both a set number of syllables per line and a regular pattern of accents in each line.
Poetry were brought forth through chanting and chanting sounds a lot better is if it rhymes. And that"s all I know on that subject other than it just sounds good. Meter is the rhythm established by a poem, and it is usually dependent not only on the number of syllables in a line but also on the way those syllables are accented. This rhythm is described as a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
ReplyDelete-zach harder
1. Many of the English poets tried to experiment with unrhymed verse, but were unsuccessful because many people reading the poem wanted to have a rhyme pattern to follow. It's easier to memorize poems that rhyme, and it's easy to follow because it's harmonic and corresponding.
ReplyDelete2. Poetic meters make structures of stressed syllables, while some are not stressed. It gives a rhythm to the structure of the poem and how we read it.
madi
Rhyming is easier to interpret and also has a more fluent sound. Rhyming also makes the poem easier to remember. I found that most poems that don't rhyme are more difficult to read and follow.
ReplyDeletePoetic meters help set the pace and tone which assist the reader in accurately conveying the proper mood of the story.
Daniel Dearing