Week 6: Lines, Stanzas, Poetic Form

Monday, September 21

• Read "Line" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "Enjambment" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics

Tuesday, September 22

• Read "Stanza" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "Couplet" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "Tercet" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Alexander Pope "An Essay on Criticism"
• Tercet examples.
• Fady Joudah "The Tea and Sage Poem"

Friday, September 25

• Read "Sonnet" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "Villanelle" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "Sestina" in Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
• Read "sestina" by Elizabeth Bishop and write a brief Facebook group posting of the impact of the form on the poem.