Dr. Reilly's Poetry Elective Fall 2017

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download the MP3 file Today we discuss the concept of accentual verse and explore line forms that differ from accentual-syllabic iambic pentameter. The students also read their adaptations of Emily Dickinson's poem #620 ("Much Madness is Divinest Sense") and William Wordsworth's "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways." Introduction of Accentual Meter Student Readings 8:20 Review of Accentual Meter & Introduction of Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic Verse 20:45 Student Readings of Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic Verse 26:10 Syllabic Verse in English 31:04 Student adaptations of Dickinson and Wordsworth 33:18

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download the MP3 file Today, we introduce techniques for measuring language and learn why they are useful for performing and interpreting poems. We discuss the relationship between sentence structure and the line unit and address how sound functions as a structuring agent in poetry. A Brief History of Meter and Rhythm in English Poetry 1:38 Syntactic Rhythm and the Line Unit (End Stops, Enjambments, and Caesurae) 4:50 Student Readings of End Stopped and Enjambed Lines 10:20 Sound as a Structuring Agent (Formal Closure, Rhyme, Assonance, Alliteration) 19:20 Student Readings (Experimenting with Rhymes and Phonemic Pairings) 27:59

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download the MP3 file After three classes, we review concepts of metrical structure and rhythmic variation in the line and foot (the basic unit of measurement in accentual-syllabic poetry). We conclude the podcast with an exercise, wherein students read to a metronome to identify patterns of stressed accents within the line. Meter and Rhythm in Iambic Pentameter 0:26 Non-Iambic Feet (Trochees, Anapests, Dactyls, Spondees, Pyrrhics) 2:34 Metronome Exercise 7:18  

If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element Download the MP3 file Welcome to the Sound and Sense podcast. Here, I outline the upcoming course and podcast. Then, the students introduce themselves with impromptu poems accompanied by bongos and maracas. Introduction of the Course and Podcast 0:00 Student Introductions 3:16