ENWR-106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: King James Version
College Writing II
Characteristics of Poetry
➔ Expression (mood)
➔ Rhyming (sometimes)
➔ Words
➔ Short or long in length
➔ Punctuation is negotiable
➔ Line breaks
➔ Symbolism - allegorical
➔ Historical insight helps interpretation
King James Bible
➔ Can be argued as poetry
➔ First bible written in language understandable by most
➔ Angered the knowledgeable
◆ He was killed for doing this
Meter
➔ Measurement of how many feet in a line
➔ Accented words versus unaccented words
➔ Coral is far | more red | than her lips’ red
Breaks in Poetry
➔ My name is Mikayla
➔ Pauses, breaks between words
Sonnets
➔ Tend to have 14 lines
➔ Shakespearean sonnets have a volta
◆ Change in perspective, shift
Emily Dickinson's: I’m Nobody! Who are you? 260
I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! They’d advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - somebody!
How public - like a frog -
To tell one’s name - the livelong June -
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