Week 3: The Music of Poetry

Tuesday, September 3

  • In class:
    • The Music of Poetry – lecture and discussion
  • Assignment:
    • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Rhyme” “Alliteration” “Consonance” “Assonance” “Onomatopoeia”
    • Perform a brief analysis (1-2 paragraphs) of what some of these sound patterns contribute to your understanding of a poem from “Listening” in Singing School.

Thursday, September 5

  • In class:
    • The Music of Poetry – lecture and discussion
  • Assignment:
    • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Form” “Stanza” “Sonnet” “Sestina” “Free Verse”
    • In Singing School, read the introduction to “Form,” “God’s Grandeur,” “In Time of Plague”.
    • Perform a brief sound analysis of an excerpt from they lyrics of a song you like.
    • Post a link to the song, the excerpt, and your analysis in our GroupMe discussion group before class on Tuesday.
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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.