Study sheet: Anglophone Poetry Forms and Analysis

📋 Course Outline

1. Course Assessment and Study Materials
2. Poetic Forms and Vocabulary
3. Shakespeare and Imagist Poetry
4. Harjo and Poetic Organization

📖 1. Course Assessment and Study Materials

📝 Essential Points

• The final-semester CM and TD assessment includes a one-hour multiple-choice test on the course, notions, concepts, and vocabulary, three TD grades, an oral presentation, a one-and-a-half-hour written assignment during the semester, and a one-and-a-half-hour final assignment.

• The January resit consists of a 20-minute oral examination on a poetry brochure, in the same format as DNL.

📖 2. Poetic Forms and Vocabulary

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Line : a verse in a poem
• Stanza : a group of lines in a poem
• Couplet : a two-line stanza or poem section
• Sonnet : a fixed poetic form
• Free verse : uses irregular lines and no fixed rules
• Haiku : a very short poem originating in Japan
• Elegy : a melancholy poem that laments a person's death and ends in consolation

📝 Essential Points

📌 Syllabic poetry counts syllables, whereas accentual poetry organizes rhythm through stresses.

💡 Memory Hook

S-C-Q: sonnet, couplet, quatrain

📖 3. Shakespeare and Imagist Poetry

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• End-stopped line : ends with punctuation, such as a period, at the end of the line

★ Must-know

• William Shakespeare's Sonnets were published in 1609, and Shakespeare is presented as a major poet known for love sonnets.

• Ezra Pound's “In a Station of the Metro” was published in 1913 and is a modern two-line poem associated with Imagism.

📌 Pound's “In a Station of the Metro” has no rhyme and focuses on one image, reflecting Imagism rather than a conventional rhymed poem. — Ezra Pound, 1913

Further detail

• Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 belongs to the sonnet tradition and is discussed in relation to differences between Shakespeare's sonnets and Petrarch's Italian poems, especially their organization.

💡 Memory Hook

Shakespeare develops sonnets, whereas Pound concentrates on one modern image

📖 4. Harjo and Poetic Organization

🔑 Key Concepts & Definitions

• Iambic pentameter : consists of five groups of two syllables, or five feet, with one unstressed syllable and one stressed syllable in each group

★ Must-know

• Joy Harjo's “An American Sunrise” was published in 2017 and is presented as prose poetry with a political agenda concerning Native American rights.

📌 Prose poetry has no line breaks, no stanzas, and no regular rhythm, whereas verse is organized through lines and stanzas.

Further detail

• An alexandrine contains 12 syllables with a pause in the middle.

• To scan a line is to identify its stressed syllables and analyze its rhythm.

📌 Poetry is distinguished from prose by its organization into lines and stanzas as well as by its musicality, while prose poetry keeps prose-like organization without line breaks.

💡 Memory Hook

Prose poetry uses no line breaks, whereas verse organizes meaning through lines and stanzas

📊 Synthesis Tables

Poetic Organization

Form	Organization	Rhythm or feature
Sonnet	Fixed form	Fixed poetic structure
Free verse	Irregular lines	No fixed rules
Prose poetry	No line breaks or stanzas	No regular rhythm
Iambic pentameter	Five feet of two syllables	Alternating unstressed and stressed syllables