Week 4: Articulatory Acrobatics

Monday, September 11

  • In class:
    • Lecture on the sounds of poetry.
  • Assignment:
    • Read The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, “Alliteration,” “Consonance” and “Alliteration.”
    • In our Facebook Group, share an excerpt from a poem or song that makes use of alliteration, assonance, consonance, and/or onomatopoeia, explaining its contribution to the poem/song. This is due on Wednesday.

Wednesday, September 13

  • Class does not meet.
  •  Assignment:
    • Reply to at least two of your classmate’s postings in our Facebook Group.
    • Write a 1-page analysis of the use of sound (including everything: rhyme, meter, rhythm, alliteration, etc.) in a poem chosen from 100 Best-Loved Poems. Your goal is to explain the poet’s strategies   This is due on Friday.

Friday, September 15

  • Class does not meet today.
  • Turn in your Sound Analysis Assignment in this shared folder before midnight.
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By Leonardo Flores

Professor Leonardo Flores is Chair of the English Department at Appalachian State University. He taught at the English Department at University of Puerto Rico: Mayagüez Campus from 1994 to 2019. He is President of the Electronic Literature Organization. He was the 2012-2013 Fulbright Scholar in Digital Culture at the University of Bergen in Norway. His research areas are electronic literature and its preservation via criticism, documentation, and digital archives. He is the creator of a scholarly blogging project titled I ♥ E-Poetry, co-editor of the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3, and has a Spanish language e-lit column in 80 Grados. He is currently co-editing the first Anthology of Latin American Electronic Literature. For more information on his current work, visit leonardoflores.net.