English 2230F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conceit, Eye Rhyme, Enjambment
1 Apr 2016
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An italian word that means a place to stand (a stopping place) It isn"t just a verse within a poem: you should think of the poem like a building, and the stanza as a room in the building. It is a place for us to meditate, a room furnished with language. The spaces separate these rooms with ime: the black is space, the white within stanzas is ime (marked by silence) Enjambment is when the end of a line pushes or strides over into the next line. A rhyme helps to shape, furnish, produce a measurement of possibiliies within the room (rhymes create movement and expectaion of what else may be in the poem: rhyme and meter shape what is possible within individual stanzas. Limericks (poems of one stanza) and sonnets create diferent expectaions. We recognize them because of their paricular rhythms, the kinds of rhymes used, and whether the stanza poses paricular quesions.
