Poetry II Flashcards
What are the theoretical perspectives?
- Biographical approaches
- Reader-focused approaches
- Text-focused approaches
- Context-focused approaches
- Channel-focused approaches
Channel-focused approach?
Media studies, theatre context
Context-focused approach?
To what extent literary texts are rooted in the historical, political, economical, philosophical, religious, etc. contexts of their production
Text-focused approach?
- literary work itself as an independent entity
- text as a coherent whole
Reader-focused approach?
Relationship between reader and text
Biographical approach?
Text as expression of author: focuses on author
What is a stichic verse?
Continuous run of lines of the same length and the same metre. Most narrative verse is written in such continuous lines.
What is a (heroic) couplet?
Two rhyming lines of verse following immediately after each other.
Heroic couplet: two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter
What is a tercet?
A stanza with three lines of the same rhyme
What is a quatrain?
Most common/popular stanza forms in English poetry
Stanza comprising four lines of verse with various rhyme patterns
What is a heroic quatrain?
Iambic pentameter, rhyming abab
What is a ballad stanza (chevy chase stanza)?
Variant of the quatrain
Lines of iambic tetra meter alternate with iambic trimeter
Rhyme scheme: abcb or abab
What is a quintet?
Poetic form or stanza that contains five lines
What is free verse?
Irregular patterns of stress and syllables
What is a villanelle?
5 Tercets rhyming aba
Quatrain rhyming abaa
What is a pastoral?
Work that idealises rural life and landscapes
What is encoding?
To convey symbolically the capacity of poetry to encode ideology (J.D. Niles)
What is decoding?
To discover the underlying meaning of decode the poems imagery
What are poetry sub genres?
- lyrical
- Narrative
- Dramatic
- Didactic
- Performance
What are examples of performance poetry?
Rap and slam
What are examples of didactic poetry?
Practical vs. Moral
What is the purpose of a didactic poem?
Teach something, instructive
What is an example for dramatic poetry?
Dramatic monologue
What is a dramatic monologue?
Speaker (not the author) makes a speech and reveals his/her character
What are examples for narrative poetry?
Epic poetry, ballad
What is epic poetry?
Large scale (in length and topic)
Elevated use of language, supernatural elements
What is a ballad?
Song, originally transmitted orally, tells a story
Form of folk poetry
Usually a four-line stanza, alternating tetra meter and trimeter
What are examples for lyrical poetry?
Sonnet, ode, elegy
What is an elegy?
Formal lament for the death of a particular person
What is an ode?
Long lyric poem with a serious subject written in an elevated style
