HW due 3/2: Villanelles

March 1, 2016 By

1. Read and annotate the four villanelles!
2. Villanelle–Remember, this is a fixed form poem! While you will see in tonight’s readings at least one of the villanelles deviates slightly from the traditional villanelle form, your villanelle should mirror Dylan Thomas’. It should be typed. You must closely follow the form requirements of the villanelle. Including:

  • 19 lines of verse (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)
  • Rhyme scheme
  • Set number of syllables/beats per line (you choose a number and stick to it)
  • Don’t forget the refrains! The fist and third line of verse repeat throughout and follow a specific pattern.

Use proper heading:

Sean Leon (your name of course)
Poetry Seminar
10/5/15
#3: Villanelle

3. Be sure to turn in your 30-word poem tomorrow if you haven’t done so already.

HW due 10/5: Villanelle and Wordsworth

October 2, 2015 By

1. Villanelle–Remember, this is a fixed form poem! It should be typed. Title is optional. You must closely follow the form requirements of the villanelle. Including:

  • 19 lines of verse (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)
  • Rhyme scheme
  • Set number of syllables/beats per line (you choose a number and stick to it)
  • Don’t forget the refrains! The fist and third line of verse repeat throughout and follow a specific pattern.

Use proper heading:

Sean Leon (your name of course)
Poetry Seminar
10/5/15
#1: Villanelle

2. (Also Due 10/5!) Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth. As for annotating focus, ignore form and pay all of your attention to discerning meaning/theme.

HW due 9/30: Villanelles, Couplets, and Keats!

September 29, 2015 By

1.Read and annotate John Keats Ode to a Nightingale. As we go through the term, we will explore various schools of poetry and we will do this chronologically. So, tonight we begin with the English Romantic, Keats!

2. Today, you (and your partner) were assigned a couplet with a set meter. Tonight you are to write an accompanying couplet continuing the meter and including rhyme. You must maintain the theme/narrative established in your assigned couplet. Tomorrow, you are you partner will have a few minutes to finalize your quatrain (the assigned couple plus your couplet equals four lines of verse…a quatrain). Then, we share!

3. Continue working on your villanelle. Remember, your poem must have a set meter but it doesn’t have to be iambic pentameter. Your chosen meter must be repeated throughout the poem. And don’t forget your refrain and its repetition throughout the poem.

HW due 9/29: Poetry Scansion and Villanelle

September 28, 2015 By
  1. Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night–Poetry Scansion. Label the rhyme and meter of the poem. This means review as many lines of verse necessary to establish metrical trends in the poem (i.e meter). Then, label the meter (i.e. trochaic pentameter).
  2. Villanelle–This is poem number 2 for us! The Dylan Thomas poem is a classic villanelle so revisit it for form requirements. Begin to draft your poem tonight and bring in a work in progress tomorrow.

HW12G due 2/23: Confessional Poem and Villanelle

February 13, 2015 By

1. Confessional Poem! Free verse… No length requirement…

2. Villanelle–Unlike the confessional poem, this is a fixed form poem! You must closely follow the form requirements of the villanelle. Including:

  • 19 lines of verse (5 tercets and 1 quatrain)
  • Rhyme scheme
  • Set number of syllables/beats per line (you choose a number and stick to it)
  • Don’t forget the refrains! The fist and third line of verse repeat throughout and follow a specific pattern.

Additionally, for both poems I would like to see you practice with some of the elements of poetry we have discussed in class: alliteration, assonance, consonance, caesura, end stop, enjambment. Further, poetry is a celebration of the “painterly” nature of writing using image and various tropes (i.e. metaphor, symbolism, etc). Let’s see that as well in your poetry…

3. Letters to a Young Poet–We will begin reading when we return, so please have your copy upon your return.

HAVE A WONDERFUL BREAK!

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