ENGLISH 1A03 Lecture Notes - Sonnet 130, Edmund Spenser, John Donne
25 Feb 2013
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To constitute or compose a usually basic element, part, or characteristic of: to produce (a tense) by inflection, to make (a word) by derivation or composition. Form is as much a process as a thing, the manner in which a thing unfolds. Avoid thinking of form as a kind of box-shape that a certain number of words get poured into. The form of a poem is not necessarily a decision that a poet makes before he or she starts writing. Certain kinds of content or subjects will prescribe certain forms: those forms in turn will influence how the content is organized an generated. Words exist in both space and time. Poetic form is both a recognizable shape (or shaping influence) and a way of moving through that shape. Convention is a norm, something that is steady and gets maintained over the period of time.
