Week 6 WS - 5 and 6 Nov

SOUND PATTERNING II: METRE AND RHYTHM

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

• Go back to Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' and find instances of the following types of irony (be prepared to defend your choices): antiphrasis, sarcasm, parapipsis, litotes, situational irony
• Study the handout for Week 5 on Sound Patterning (Metre and Rhythm)
  
•  Read the poems by William Blake and Wilfred Owen under Week 5 you and prepare their scansion (mark the stressed and unstresssed syllables and divide the lines into poetic feet). Try to decide on the prevalent metre. We will comment on how these texts use metre (including irregular features) to emphasise certain concepts, contrasts and immages.
  
• Read the poems by Emily Dickinson and John Donne (also under Week 5) and be prepared to talk about their themes and structure: What form do they use? What kind of stanza? You do are not asked to perform the scansion on these two poems.
  

PRINT OUT THE POEMS for this week – unless you can handwrite in your appliance.

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