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Creative Writing: Poetry, Lesson Four
Professor Chaucer's good mood continues. Maybe he's over his emo fit from last week. Or maybe he's just that well-adjusted. Unfortunately, Kiki seems to be missing from class, so there are no snacks today. And Chaucer is a little worried about his missing TA.
[Kiki, if you're planning on contacting Chaucer before class begins, drop me a comment and I'll edit this.]
Today we'll continue our discussion on the elements of poetry, and then I'll talk a bit about your assigned reading.
[Lecture 1] Alliteration refers to a "succession of similar sounds" -- the repetition of the same consonent sounds at the beginning of a series of words. Repetition of the first consonent sound in the word is called initial alliteration, while internal or hidden alliteration refers to the repetition of consonent sounds within the words. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a series of words.
Pause, or cesura, refers to a light but definite pause within a line, often occuring at a punctuation mark, although also occasionally found at the end of a line. An end-stop is the punctuated pause at the end of a line. A run-on line ends with no puncuation and only the slightest pause before continuing to the next line.
A Symbol is a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself.
Allegory refers to a description, usually narrative, in which people, places and things are employed in a continuous system of equivalents.
Parody takes place when a writer imitates and pokes fun at another; imitating tone, form, language and other elements. A good parody maintains an understanding of the original work rather than simply flinging abuse at it, and has an ear for the sounds and rhythms of the original.
[LECTURE 2] Your assigned reading was a poem called Troilus and Criseyde. There are a number of versions of this story in existance -- the one you read for class today was written by me, in fact. This is a love story, one that ends in tragedy. It tells of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and his beloved Criseyde. The tale was mentioned by Homer, although first really written down in the poem Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. My main source in composing my own version was Boccaccio's Il Filostrato.
Troilus and Criseyde can be called a "courtly romance", or roman courteois, a genre of narrative prose that was particularly popular with the aristocracy of the middle ages. The French poem Romance of the Rose is a particularly well-known example of courtly romance, and one that has been translated numerous times through the years by a number of authors -- including yours truly. Medieval romances tend to recount the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight, often of super-human ability, who, abiding chivalry's strict codes of honour and demeanour, fights and defeats monsters and giants, thereby winning favour with a beautiful, but fickle princess. The story of the medieval romance focuses not upon love and sentiment, as the terminology might suggest, but upon adventure. Romancers wrote many of their stories in three, thematic cycles: the Arthurian (the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table); the Carlovingian (the lives and deeds of Charlemagne, and Roland, his principal paladin); and the Alexandrian (the life and deeds of Alexander the Great).
The poetic form used for Troilus and Criseyde is rhyme royal. This form employs a series of stanzas consisting of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). This allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for longer narrative poems.
***Assignment for Next Week: Write a poem in the rhyme royal scheme. The poem must consist of a minimum of two stanzas (each stanza containing seven lines in either tercet-couplet or quatrain-tercet form), and must follow the pattern of courtly romance as discussed in the lecture.
Reading for Next Week: Read the assigned haikus. (Haikus are short -- please read all sixteen by the "old masters" and all ten "new" poems.)***
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[Kiki, if you're planning on contacting Chaucer before class begins, drop me a comment and I'll edit this.]
Today we'll continue our discussion on the elements of poetry, and then I'll talk a bit about your assigned reading.
[Lecture 1] Alliteration refers to a "succession of similar sounds" -- the repetition of the same consonent sounds at the beginning of a series of words. Repetition of the first consonent sound in the word is called initial alliteration, while internal or hidden alliteration refers to the repetition of consonent sounds within the words. Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds within a series of words.
Pause, or cesura, refers to a light but definite pause within a line, often occuring at a punctuation mark, although also occasionally found at the end of a line. An end-stop is the punctuated pause at the end of a line. A run-on line ends with no puncuation and only the slightest pause before continuing to the next line.
A Symbol is a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself.
Allegory refers to a description, usually narrative, in which people, places and things are employed in a continuous system of equivalents.
Parody takes place when a writer imitates and pokes fun at another; imitating tone, form, language and other elements. A good parody maintains an understanding of the original work rather than simply flinging abuse at it, and has an ear for the sounds and rhythms of the original.
[LECTURE 2] Your assigned reading was a poem called Troilus and Criseyde. There are a number of versions of this story in existance -- the one you read for class today was written by me, in fact. This is a love story, one that ends in tragedy. It tells of Troilus, a Trojan prince, and his beloved Criseyde. The tale was mentioned by Homer, although first really written down in the poem Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure. My main source in composing my own version was Boccaccio's Il Filostrato.
Troilus and Criseyde can be called a "courtly romance", or roman courteois, a genre of narrative prose that was particularly popular with the aristocracy of the middle ages. The French poem Romance of the Rose is a particularly well-known example of courtly romance, and one that has been translated numerous times through the years by a number of authors -- including yours truly. Medieval romances tend to recount the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight, often of super-human ability, who, abiding chivalry's strict codes of honour and demeanour, fights and defeats monsters and giants, thereby winning favour with a beautiful, but fickle princess. The story of the medieval romance focuses not upon love and sentiment, as the terminology might suggest, but upon adventure. Romancers wrote many of their stories in three, thematic cycles: the Arthurian (the lives and deeds of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table); the Carlovingian (the lives and deeds of Charlemagne, and Roland, his principal paladin); and the Alexandrian (the life and deeds of Alexander the Great).
The poetic form used for Troilus and Criseyde is rhyme royal. This form employs a series of stanzas consisting of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter. The rhyme scheme is a-b-a-b-b-c-c. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (a-b-a, b-b, c-c) or a quatrain and a tercet (a-b-a-b, b-c-c). This allows for a good deal of variety, especially when the form is used for longer narrative poems.
***Assignment for Next Week: Write a poem in the rhyme royal scheme. The poem must consist of a minimum of two stanzas (each stanza containing seven lines in either tercet-couplet or quatrain-tercet form), and must follow the pattern of courtly romance as discussed in the lecture.
Reading for Next Week: Read the assigned haikus. (Haikus are short -- please read all sixteen by the "old masters" and all ten "new" poems.)***
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finallysigns in, and sits down, prepared to take notes. Her last poem was kinda crappy, and it's always best to take notes. After all, more learning means a better understanding of human nature.TALK TO THE PROFESSOR
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And you do realize that Phale will try to keep Kiki at the shop until well after supper, right? But he'll be more than happy, I'm sure, to call in Kiki's apologies about missing class. ;)
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*squees about the date and awaits the post with much curiosity* ]
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makeget the call. ;)]Re: OOC