Readers Journal: Rhythm and Meter in Poetry
The purpose of the Readers Journal is to provide you with a place to explore ideas, discuss reading, and ask questions about the texts you read for this course. The readers journal will ask you to reflect on the readings for the week with questions as prompts, but your response does not need to be in essay format. If it makes more sense to provide a bulleted list or outline, please do so. The language style in the readers journal can be more informal than your other writing assignments, but please be sure to use academic terms and ideas from the reading to support your ideas. When referring to the events of the story, call it plot so as to familiarize yourself with the academic vocabulary of literature.
Assignment Instructions
Based on your reading of poetry this week and your understanding of and appreciation for rhythm and meter in poetry, discuss how rhythm and meter contribute to a poems power.
Select from the Poem Selections List [DOWNLOAD] a rhythmic poem as an example for your ideas in response to these questions:
How does rhythm and meter contribute to the meaning of this poem?
How does rhythm and meter contribute to your enjoyment of this poem? What would the poem be like if it were exactly the same, but lacked the rhythmic elements?
Why do so many poets choose to use rhythmic elements in their poems? What is it about our culture that appreciates and demands rhythm to poetry?
Requirements
Word Count: 600 – 900
APA Formatted Reference page (if needed)
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