CRWR 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enjambment, Free Verse, Hear Music
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First off, try and go for specific details in your language rather than generalities. Ex of generalities: i feel sad / i feel happy / it"s nice out / dinner was great. I could hear music vs. i could hear music coming from her headphones. Details that appeal to our senses, which are: sight, smell, sound, taste, touch. Aristotle"s poetics: starting point for all literary criticism in western civilization (4th c. He describes poetry separated into three types: lyric, epic, and dithyrambic. This is the first outlining of literature based on genres, or separate categories delineated by distinct style, form, and content. Lyric: a large category about a subject and contain little narrative content. The voice of the dramatic poem is an invented character not to be identified by poet. Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern. Adheres to a formal pattern/ structure in terms of meter, stanza length, and rhyme.
