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Finding a needle in a haystack
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "These equal syllables alone require, If you say this line aloud, all the words cause your mouth to scrunch up.... Though oft the ear the open vowels...
Weblog: MatthewHenderson
Tracked: February 24, 2007 10:37 AM
Free verse is not free
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "Tell me, Mr. Brontosaurus, / Have you got a lesson for us?" (from a song by Sting) This web page was very helpful in what I should...
Weblog: JennaMiller
Tracked: February 25, 2007 2:06 PM
HEAR ME HEAR ME!
Excerpt: Poetry is meant for the ear."Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: CorinneLauer
Tracked: February 25, 2007 3:03 PM
Rhythm Makes the World Go Round
Excerpt: But rhyme depends, for much of its power, upon rhythm -- that is, the repeated pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line. Rhythm creates a steady wave, upon which the reader's ear floats.Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear''...
Weblog: MacKenzieHarbison
Tracked: February 25, 2007 3:42 PM
The Unexpected Things in Life
Excerpt: "drill a bicuspid" and "still maladjusted" (from a song in Little Shop of Horrors) Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)...
Weblog: JenniferPrex
Tracked: February 25, 2007 3:46 PM
Accent and Rhyme
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Country songswriters are notorious for stretching rhymes ("Well, I got to feelin' kinda ill, so I begged for you to take the wheel (pronounced 'will')"...
Weblog: HallieGeary
Tracked: February 25, 2007 4:28 PM
Chronic Pauser, please no applause!
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If you find yourself automatically pausing at the end of every line, regardless of whether the meaning of the poem calls for a pause at that point;..."...
Weblog: BethanyMerryman
Tracked: February 25, 2007 4:48 PM
Rhymes!!!
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Instead of simply fixating on rhyme, or on a tick-tock rhythm, focus also on the sounds of specific words throughout your poem. I think my biggest problem...
Weblog: MargaretJones
Tracked: February 25, 2007 5:07 PM
The deadly rhythm
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "So there are two kinds of rhythm going on here -- the monotonous march of the "feet", and the pauses indicated by the sense of the poem...
Weblog: CoreyStruss
Tracked: February 26, 2007 1:54 AM
Poetic Performance
Excerpt: Jerz, ''Poetry is for the Ear'' -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If you find yourself automatically pausing at the end of every line, regardless of whether the meaning of the poem calls for a pause at that point;...
Weblog: BethanyBouchard
Tracked: February 27, 2007 10:46 PM
If this were a song, I wouldn't have to make sense.
Excerpt: Country songswriters are notorious for stretching rhymes ("Well, I got to feelin' kinda ill, so I begged for you to take the wheel (pronounced 'will')"; rap artists often find extremly intricate and clever ways to work with words. But rhyme...
Weblog: EllenEinsporn
Tracked: April 4, 2007 1:33 AM