Week 2: The Sounds of Poetry

Thursday, August 29

• In class:
  • The Music of Poetry - lecture and discussion
• Assignment:
  • In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, read "Scansion" "Trimeter" "Tetrameter" "Pentameter"
  • Read “Listening” (the whole chapter) in Singing School.
  • Perform a metrical analysis of a poem from “Listening” in Singing School.
  • Post in our discussion group.