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Poetry and Poetics

Poetry and Poetics. Based on Michael C. Thompson’s “Music of the Hemispheres”. Poetry engages us emotionally and cognitively We will study the interpretive and technical sides of poetry Poetry is found everywhere, including novels. Poetics: The study of the technical aspects of poetry.

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Poetry and Poetics

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  1. Poetry and Poetics Based on Michael C. Thompson’s “Music of the Hemispheres”

  2. Poetry engages us emotionally and cognitively We will study the interpretive and technical sides of poetry Poetry is found everywhere, including novels Poetics: The study of the technical aspects of poetry Music of the Cerebral Spheres

  3. Goals • Reduce stereotypes: • poetry is not “effeminate” • Not all poetry is “pretty”—poems can be about tragedy, love, hate, etc. • Understand Technical aspects • Become familiar with great poets and poems • See poetry as a high art form and a complex model of thinking

  4. Love poems use soft sounds M n o s f l r Let’s try it out! “My Mary’s asleep by that murmuring stream…Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.” Soft Sounds

  5. Romeo and Juliet—love scenes O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy.Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,Nor arm, nor face. O, be some other nameBelonging to a man.What's in a name? That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet.

  6. Use rough, hard consonants G b t k d Try it out! “Double double toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble” --Macbeth’s witches Scratchy, Rough Sounds

  7. “Channel Firing” by Thomas Hardy That night your great guns, unawares, Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgment-day And sat upright. While drearisome Arose the howl of wakened hounds:

  8. PB TD KG Two degrees of the same sound—more vocal power on the second Used for villains, monsters, hatred, etc. Stopped Consonants

  9. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Chapter 1: A throng of bearded men, in sad-coloured garments and grey steeple-crowned hats, inter-mixed with women, some wearing hoods, and others bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

  10. Stopped sounds • “Whole lotta going on” • Whole lotta going on” • “Whole lotta SHAKIN’ going on” • Little Richard

  11. Hamlet…Here a lonely heartCRACKSHere CRACKS a lonely heart

  12. More Sounds • Rain sounds: shsh fffffff sssssss rrrrrrr thtthththththt Give it a try—all together now!

  13. “The Cloud” by Shelley I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their Mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.

  14. Slyvia Plath When asked to look outside…she saw a dark cemetery by moonlight. Fumy Spiritous Mists inhabit this place

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