ENG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Galway Kinnell, Simile, Free Verse

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 110
• Professor: Ruth Panofsky

Document Summary

Type of poem: lyric poetry expression of a single singer; personal expression delivered reference to emotion to that singer emotion of expression comes from the individual (personal) Before even reading the poem, you can tell that it is in the first person, it"s a personal experience my and papa . You can visualize a waltz and the three beats - ironic treatment of waltz. Lines are all over the place, no periods only commas. Enjambment: technique when lines of poetry run one into another. Free verse: doesn"t rhyme, written freely, no structure, doesn"t have a regular rhyme scheme. Reading repetitions of sounds and words to establish rhythm. Poem is about blackberries and the lusciousness but it is also talking about the art of writing, and the lusciousness art of using words art of blackberries vs art of the use of words (metaphor) Repetition: the letters b (blackberry, black), p(prickle, penalty), s (squinched, splurge, syllabled)