ENGL 2100Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nonsense Verse, Lyric Poetry, Caesura
23 Feb 2016
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The lover as hero / the hero as lover. Greek and latin as well as modern foreign languages. An emphasis on the impact of education on social behavior and ethics. Learning was a way to advance in society and the basis of the social order. Classical literature provided models forms and genres. Writers experimented within established generic frameworks with the intention of. Art and artifice open and closed forms of poetry. Closed form a type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme, line length, and metrical pattern. Limerick = a short, humorous, often ribald or nonsense poem, especially one in five-line anapestic meter with a strict rhyme scheme (aabba) Haiku = use of three lines of up to 17 syllables (5 7 5); allusion to nature; use of a caesura to compare two images implicitly. Ballad = set forms shaped by music.
