Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Twitter Assignment #5
1. Tweet a "phrase" from one of Claude McKay's poems and say why it matters to the poem.
2. Tweet the name of one McKay poem so far that you might write on for your paper.
2. Tweet the name of one McKay poem so far that you might write on for your paper.
Reflection Letter
Reflection on your writing process: letter to the professor. Answer the following questions in a brief letter to the professor. 1. Do you understand my comments? Do you have concerns? 2. What was the most difficult part of the assignment for you? How did you overcome it, or where did you get stuck? 3. Looking back, what would you do differently next time? 4. What writing skills or techniques do you think we need to work on most as a class going forward?
Monday, April 13, 2015
Class Agenda 4.13
1. Papers back Wednesday
2. Quiz: Based on the poems we read for today, which one interested you the most and why?
3. Poetry terms:
Line: A basic structural component of a poem. Lines can be written in free form, in syllabic form (e.g. haiku) or in metrical form. In the official classification, metrical lines can vary in length from the monometer (one foot) to the octameter (eight feet).
Meter, feet stress: Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. Meter gives rhythm and regularity to poetry.
However, the English language does not always fit exactly into metrical patterns so many poems employing meter will exhibit irregularities.
In English verse the most common meters are: iambic, dactylic, trochaic and anapestic. Other meters are occasionally used, such as spondaic and pyrrhic. There are also a number of classical Greek meters which are very rare indeed - such as amphibrachic, amphimacer and choriambic.
Iambic meter
An end stressed two syllable foot e.g. from In Memoriam by Lord Tennyson
I DREAMED | there WOULD| be SPRING | no MORE
This example is an iambic tetrameter - i.e. it has four iambic feet and therefore the total number of syllables in the line is eight. Iambic is an example of rising meter.
Trochaic meter
A front stressed two syllable foot.
e.g. The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
BY the | SHORES of | GIT chee | GUMee,
This example is trochaic tetrameter - i.e. four two syllable feet. Therefore the total line has eight syllables. Trochaic meter is less commonly used than iambic meter. Trochaic is an example of falling meter.
Anapestic meter
An end stressed three syllable foot e.g. The Destruction of the Sennacherib by Byron:
And the SHEEN | of their SPEARS | was like STARS | on the SEA,
This line is an anapestic tetrameter i.e. it has four feet containing three syllables each. Therefore the total number of syllables in the line is twelve.
Dactylic Meter
A front stressed three syllable foot e.g. The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
WE that had | LOVED him so, | FOLlowed him | HONoured him,
This line is an example of dactyllic tetrameter i.e. it has four feet containing three syllables each. Therefore the total number of syllables in the line is twelve.
Each of the above meters can be used in lines with varying numbers of feet. The number of feet in a line is usually classified as follows: monometer (one foot), dimeter (two feet), trimeter (three feet), tetrameter (four feet), pentameter (five feet), hexameter (six feet), heptameter (seven feet) and octameter (eight feet).
Free Verse: Verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse, instead, relies upon the natural rhythms of everyday speech. The American poet Walt Whitman was a pioneer of free verse (see Song of Myself). However, it was fellow Americans T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound who are generally regarded as the major instigators of free verse in English. Free verse is particularly associated with both the imagist and modernist movements. See also vers libre.
2. Quiz: Based on the poems we read for today, which one interested you the most and why?
3. Poetry terms:
Line: A basic structural component of a poem. Lines can be written in free form, in syllabic form (e.g. haiku) or in metrical form. In the official classification, metrical lines can vary in length from the monometer (one foot) to the octameter (eight feet).
Meter, feet stress: Is the regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that make up a line of poetry. Meter gives rhythm and regularity to poetry.
However, the English language does not always fit exactly into metrical patterns so many poems employing meter will exhibit irregularities.
In English verse the most common meters are: iambic, dactylic, trochaic and anapestic. Other meters are occasionally used, such as spondaic and pyrrhic. There are also a number of classical Greek meters which are very rare indeed - such as amphibrachic, amphimacer and choriambic.
Iambic meter
An end stressed two syllable foot e.g. from In Memoriam by Lord Tennyson
I DREAMED | there WOULD| be SPRING | no MORE
This example is an iambic tetrameter - i.e. it has four iambic feet and therefore the total number of syllables in the line is eight. Iambic is an example of rising meter.
Trochaic meter
A front stressed two syllable foot.
e.g. The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
BY the | SHORES of | GIT chee | GUMee,
This example is trochaic tetrameter - i.e. four two syllable feet. Therefore the total line has eight syllables. Trochaic meter is less commonly used than iambic meter. Trochaic is an example of falling meter.
Anapestic meter
An end stressed three syllable foot e.g. The Destruction of the Sennacherib by Byron:
And the SHEEN | of their SPEARS | was like STARS | on the SEA,
This line is an anapestic tetrameter i.e. it has four feet containing three syllables each. Therefore the total number of syllables in the line is twelve.
Dactylic Meter
A front stressed three syllable foot e.g. The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
WE that had | LOVED him so, | FOLlowed him | HONoured him,
This line is an example of dactyllic tetrameter i.e. it has four feet containing three syllables each. Therefore the total number of syllables in the line is twelve.
Each of the above meters can be used in lines with varying numbers of feet. The number of feet in a line is usually classified as follows: monometer (one foot), dimeter (two feet), trimeter (three feet), tetrameter (four feet), pentameter (five feet), hexameter (six feet), heptameter (seven feet) and octameter (eight feet).
Free Verse: Verse without formal meter or rhyme patterns. Free verse, instead, relies upon the natural rhythms of everyday speech. The American poet Walt Whitman was a pioneer of free verse (see Song of Myself). However, it was fellow Americans T.S.Eliot and Ezra Pound who are generally regarded as the major instigators of free verse in English. Free verse is particularly associated with both the imagist and modernist movements. See also vers libre.
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Twitter Assignment 4
1. Tell the rest of the class what McKay poem you want to discuss in our next class.
2. Go back through the Tweets from class so far, and REPLY to TWO of them as if it were class discussion.
2. Go back through the Tweets from class so far, and REPLY to TWO of them as if it were class discussion.
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-Transfer guidance
-Professional skills development
-Summer internship either abroad or in the U.S
-Bilingual conversation partners
-Networking with business leaders, non-profit professionals, LaGuardia alumni and cultural experts
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Class Agenda 4.1
1. Quiz:
a. What was the most memorable poem you read and why? (full points)
b. Why did you give up trying to read the poems? Did you try to read them out loud? (some points)
c. Why didn't you do the reading? (pride)
2. Rhyme Scheme (basic)
ambiguity-: (1) a statement which has two or more possible meanings; (2) a statement whose meaning is unclear. Depending on the circumstances, ambiguity can be negative, leading to confusion or even disaster (the ambiguous wording of a general's note led to the deadly charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War). On the other hand, writers often use it to achieve special effects, for instance, to reflect the complexity of an issue or to indicate the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility, of determining truth.
The title of the country song "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" is deliberately ambiguous; at a religious level, it means that committing a sin keeps us out of heaven, but at a physical level, it means that committing a sin (sex) will bring heaven (pleasure). Many of Hamlet's statements to the King, to Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, and to other characters are deliberately ambiguous, to hide his real purpose from them.
Alliteration: the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word, such as the repetition of b sounds in Keats's "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" ("Ode to a Nightingale") or Coleridge's "Five miles meandering in a mazy motion ("Kubla Khan"). A common use for alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such phrases as "tittle-tattle," "bag and baggage," "bed and board," "primrose path," and "through thick and thin" and in sayings like "look before you leap."
Some literary critics call the repetition of any sounds alliteration. However, there are specialized terms for other sound-repetitions. Consonance repeats consonants, but not the vowels, as in horror-hearer. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, please-niece-ski-tree.
3. McKay - biography
4. poem(s)
a. What was the most memorable poem you read and why? (full points)
b. Why did you give up trying to read the poems? Did you try to read them out loud? (some points)
c. Why didn't you do the reading? (pride)
2. Rhyme Scheme (basic)
ambiguity-: (1) a statement which has two or more possible meanings; (2) a statement whose meaning is unclear. Depending on the circumstances, ambiguity can be negative, leading to confusion or even disaster (the ambiguous wording of a general's note led to the deadly charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War). On the other hand, writers often use it to achieve special effects, for instance, to reflect the complexity of an issue or to indicate the difficulty, perhaps the impossibility, of determining truth.
The title of the country song "Heaven's Just a Sin Away" is deliberately ambiguous; at a religious level, it means that committing a sin keeps us out of heaven, but at a physical level, it means that committing a sin (sex) will bring heaven (pleasure). Many of Hamlet's statements to the King, to Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern, and to other characters are deliberately ambiguous, to hide his real purpose from them.
Alliteration: the repetition of the same sound at the beginning of a word, such as the repetition of b sounds in Keats's "beaded bubbles winking at the brim" ("Ode to a Nightingale") or Coleridge's "Five miles meandering in a mazy motion ("Kubla Khan"). A common use for alliteration is emphasis. It occurs in everyday speech in such phrases as "tittle-tattle," "bag and baggage," "bed and board," "primrose path," and "through thick and thin" and in sayings like "look before you leap."
Some literary critics call the repetition of any sounds alliteration. However, there are specialized terms for other sound-repetitions. Consonance repeats consonants, but not the vowels, as in horror-hearer. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds, please-niece-ski-tree.
3. McKay - biography
4. poem(s)
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