Poetry

Session 9 Reading Questions

1. What is meant by "a poem's sound"?

2. Discuss rime in poetry?

3. Do you find it easy or hard to determine the meter pattern of a poem when you have to consider the stresses? Please explain.

4. Meters are classified by what two things: stressed ______________ and ___________ lengths.

Session 10 Readings Questions

5. What is the difference between closed form and open form?

6. What is a stanza? Describe syllabic verse.

7. What is symbol? Discuss why some symbols are difficult to determine.

8. What is a myth? What type of myth is used in Yeats' "The Second Coming"?

9. What is your definition of poetry?

10. Explain the poem "I Heard a Fly Buzz - When I Died" by Emily Dickinson.