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Creative Writing: Poetry, Lesson Eight
Tuesday, February 28, 8th period
This is Professor Chaucer's last poetry class at Fandom High, and he's looking very solemn. There's an Australian shepherd puppy curled up quietly next to his desk -- the dog will look familiar to anyone who went by the school clinic during Dr. House's last few weeks in town. Once everyone is seated, Chaucer stands and addresses the class.
"Before we get started, I just wanted to remind everyone that this will be my last class at Fandom High. I've really enjoyed teaching all of you, and getting to know all of you, and I hope you've taken away even a small percentage of what I've learned from this class.
"I want to introduce you to the professor who'll be taking over for me, beginning next week. This is Professor Miles Raymond. I know you'll all afford him the same attention and hard work that you've given me."
[LECTURE: DICKINSON] Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) liven in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was educated at the nearby Amherst Academy, a former boys' school which had opened to female students just two years earlier, where she studied English and classical literature, learning Latin and reading the Aeneid over several years, and was taught in other subjects including religion, history, mathematics, geology, and biology.
Dickinson's poetry is often recognizable at a glance, and is unlike the work of any other poet. Her facility with ballad and hymn meter, her extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in her manuscripts, and her idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery combine to create a unique lyric style.
During a religious revival that swept Western Massachusetts during the decades of 1840-50, Dickinson found her vocation as a poet. Most of her work is reflective of life's small moments and some larger issues in society. Over half of her poems were written during the years of the American Civil War.
[LECTURE: LAZARUS] Emma Lazarus (1849 – 1887) is best known for The New Colossus, a sonnet written in 1883 that is now engraved on a bronze plaque on a wall in the base of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet won a contest, sponsored by the New York World as part of their campaign to raise funds for the statue's construction.
Lazarus wrote her own original poems, and many adaptations of German and Italian poems, notably those of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Lazarus' latent Judaism was awakened after reading the George Eliot novel Daniel Deronda, and this was further strengthened by the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s. This led Lazarus to write articles on the subject and to begin translating the works of Jewish poets into English. She is known as an important forerunner of the Zionist movement. For example, she argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland thirteen years before Herzl began to use the term Zionism.
[LECTURE: TERZA RIMA] Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. The two possible endings for the example above are d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e. There is no set rhythm for terza rima, but in English, iambic pentameters are generally preferred.
The first known use of terza rima is in Dante's Divina Commedia. In creating the form, Dante may have been influenced by the sirventes, a lyric form used by the Provencal troubadours. The three-line pattern may have been intended to suggest the Holy Trinity. After Dante, other Italian poets, including Petrarch and Boccaccio, used the form. The first English poet to write in terza rima was Geoffrey Chaucer, who used it for his Complaint to His Lady. Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in what is, in comparison with Italian, not an inflected language, terza rima has been used by Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life). A number of 20th century poets also employed the form. These include Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot.
Examples:
Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
Complaint to his Lady by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
[DISCUSSION] No discussion on the lesson today. Instead, you'll be watching a film entitled Dead Poets Society. Please don't emulate the characters in this film, all right?
[WRITING ASSIGNMENT] Due March 14: Write a poem using the terza rima form.
***ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT LESSON: Enjoy your vacation, try not to get into too much trouble, and start your reading: the following poems by Robert Burns.***
Auld Lang Syne
A Red, Red Rose
To a Louse
To a Mouse
Tam O'Shanter
The Twa Dogs
CLASS ROSTER
Martin Blank
Connor MacManus
Han Solo
Jack Harkness
Kiki Takayama (TA)
DEATH
Sharon Valerii
Phoebe Halliwell
Auditing: Greg House
This is Professor Chaucer's last poetry class at Fandom High, and he's looking very solemn. There's an Australian shepherd puppy curled up quietly next to his desk -- the dog will look familiar to anyone who went by the school clinic during Dr. House's last few weeks in town. Once everyone is seated, Chaucer stands and addresses the class.
"Before we get started, I just wanted to remind everyone that this will be my last class at Fandom High. I've really enjoyed teaching all of you, and getting to know all of you, and I hope you've taken away even a small percentage of what I've learned from this class.
"I want to introduce you to the professor who'll be taking over for me, beginning next week. This is Professor Miles Raymond. I know you'll all afford him the same attention and hard work that you've given me."
[LECTURE: DICKINSON] Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) liven in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was educated at the nearby Amherst Academy, a former boys' school which had opened to female students just two years earlier, where she studied English and classical literature, learning Latin and reading the Aeneid over several years, and was taught in other subjects including religion, history, mathematics, geology, and biology.
Dickinson's poetry is often recognizable at a glance, and is unlike the work of any other poet. Her facility with ballad and hymn meter, her extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in her manuscripts, and her idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery combine to create a unique lyric style.
During a religious revival that swept Western Massachusetts during the decades of 1840-50, Dickinson found her vocation as a poet. Most of her work is reflective of life's small moments and some larger issues in society. Over half of her poems were written during the years of the American Civil War.
[LECTURE: LAZARUS] Emma Lazarus (1849 – 1887) is best known for The New Colossus, a sonnet written in 1883 that is now engraved on a bronze plaque on a wall in the base of the Statue of Liberty. The sonnet won a contest, sponsored by the New York World as part of their campaign to raise funds for the statue's construction.
Lazarus wrote her own original poems, and many adaptations of German and Italian poems, notably those of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Lazarus' latent Judaism was awakened after reading the George Eliot novel Daniel Deronda, and this was further strengthened by the Russian pogroms in the early 1880s. This led Lazarus to write articles on the subject and to begin translating the works of Jewish poets into English. She is known as an important forerunner of the Zionist movement. For example, she argued for the creation of a Jewish homeland thirteen years before Herzl began to use the term Zionism.
[LECTURE: TERZA RIMA] Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d. There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet. The two possible endings for the example above are d-e-d, e or d-e-d, e-e. There is no set rhythm for terza rima, but in English, iambic pentameters are generally preferred.
The first known use of terza rima is in Dante's Divina Commedia. In creating the form, Dante may have been influenced by the sirventes, a lyric form used by the Provencal troubadours. The three-line pattern may have been intended to suggest the Holy Trinity. After Dante, other Italian poets, including Petrarch and Boccaccio, used the form. The first English poet to write in terza rima was Geoffrey Chaucer, who used it for his Complaint to His Lady. Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in what is, in comparison with Italian, not an inflected language, terza rima has been used by Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life). A number of 20th century poets also employed the form. These include Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden, William Carlos Williams, and T. S. Eliot.
Examples:
Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost
Complaint to his Lady by Geoffrey Chaucer
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
[DISCUSSION] No discussion on the lesson today. Instead, you'll be watching a film entitled Dead Poets Society. Please don't emulate the characters in this film, all right?
[WRITING ASSIGNMENT] Due March 14: Write a poem using the terza rima form.
***ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT LESSON: Enjoy your vacation, try not to get into too much trouble, and start your reading: the following poems by Robert Burns.***
Auld Lang Syne
A Red, Red Rose
To a Louse
To a Mouse
Tam O'Shanter
The Twa Dogs
CLASS ROSTER
Martin Blank
Han Solo
Jack Harkness
Kiki Takayama (TA)
Sharon Valerii
Phoebe Halliwell
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