Weeks 2-3: The Sounds of Poetry

Monday, August 29

  • In class:
    • The Music of Poetry – lecture and discussion
  • Assignment:
    • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Scansion” “Trimeter” “Tetrameter” “Pentameter”
    • Write a 1-2 paragraph metrical analysis of “When I Was One and Twenty” and “The Tyger” (you can print them out from here) (scan poems, identify metrical patterns and variations and discuss why the authors chose to write them that way) and post it in our ASULearn forum before next class.

Wednesday, August 31

  • In class:
    • The Music of Poetry – lecture and discussion
  • Assignment:
    • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read “Rhyme” “Alliteration” “Consonance” “Assonance” “Onomatopoeia”
    • Choose a poem from The American Voice Anthology of Poetry (ASU Library) and perform a 1-2 paragraph analysis of the use of sound devices discussed.
    • Post in our ASULearn forum before next class.

Monday, September 5 – Labor Day (no class)

Wednesday, September 7

  • 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”
    • Perform a 1-page sound analysis of the poem/song you posted on the Catchy Lines assignment, using all the relevant elements of sound we’ve discussed: metrical analysis and so on.
    • Post a link to the song, the excerpt, and your analysis in our ASULearn forum before next class.
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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.