Week 7: Structure and Form

Monday, November 13

  • In class
    • Finish discussion of Concrete Poetry and introduce internal and external structure.
    • Discuss assigned poems.
  • Assignment
    • In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Stanza and Structure.

Wednesday, November 15

  • In class
    • Lecture on Stanza and Structure.
  • Assignment
    • In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Sonnet, Sestina, Villanelle, Haiku.

Friday, November 17

  • In class
    • Lecture on Closed Form, Sonnet, Sestina, Villanelle, Haiku
  • Assignment
    • In the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read entries on Free Verse.
    • Choose a poem from Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation or 100 Best-Loved Poems
    • Analyze the internal and external structure of the poem explaining what they contribute to the goals of the poem.
    • Post your brief analysis (1 paragraph) in our Facebook Group by the end of class on Monday.
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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.