Madeline TrottaDisrupting the Sonnet in Brooks’ “The Rites for Cousin Vit”The sonnet is a highly structured yet simultaneously versatile form, offering poets opportunities to use different rhyme schemes, stressing…Oct 6Oct 6
Madeline TrottainLinguistic ArchitectureDecay and Creation in Pamela Stewart’s “Punk Pantoum”The pantoum is form of poetry that was created in Malaysia to communicate ideas about everyday life and the reflections that can be gleaned…Sep 29Sep 29
Madeline TrottaBeing Adrift in a Haiku of Kobayashi IssaDue to the traditionally short length of the haiku poetic form, haikus often utilize sharp images to communicate meaning and create emotion…Sep 131Sep 131
Madeline TrottainLinguistic ArchitectureForlorn Hope in “Tonight” by Agha Shahid AliIn the poetic form of the ghazal, repetition — specifically repetition of a particular phrase at the end of every couplet, and twice in…Sep 82Sep 82
Madeline TrottaDefinitions of FormRobert Hass, in the book for this course, A Little Book on Form, provides these definitions of form:Sep 6Sep 6