Dr. Reilly's Poetry Elective Fall 2017

Download the MP3 file After my brief introduction on tone, voice, performance, and sound in poetry, the students offer readings and sound scores of William Blake's "The Tyger" and Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." 0:00 Introduction 2:00 Tone 3:55 Voice (and some methods for analyzing it) 8:00 Performance 10:00 Sound in Poetry 14:10 Student recitations and scores of Blake's "The Tyger"          15:10 Allen Ginsberg performs "The Tyger"          18:29 Harry's performance and interview          24:40 Angela's performance and interview 31:00 Explanation of recitation and score exercise 35:30 Class cut-up recitation & score for Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" 43:20 Patti Smith performs "The Tyger" live

Download the MP3 file This podcast covers a variety of stanza structures and verse forms, moving from the heroic couplet to more complex forms, such as the triolet, rondel, rondeau, pantoum, villanelle, sestina, sonnet, ode, and blues lyric. 0:00 Introduction to Stanzas: Couplets, Tercets, Quatrains, Rhyme Royal, Ottava Rima, Spenserian Stanza 20:00 Rhyming Terminology 27:00 Introduction to Verse Forms 27:40 Haiku 29:18 Triolet 30:20 Rondel 31:25 Rondeau 33:05 Pantoum 35:37 Villanelle 39:03 Sestina 45:13 Sonnet 53:00 Ode 59:00 Blues Lyric