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Title: Poetry - Form
Description: 1st Year Notes on Form in Poetry. The notes focus on simple forms (e.g. quatrains, couplets and tercets) as well as some more complex forms of poetry (such as ottawa rima, the Spenserian stanza and the sonnet). They also briefly cover form in Plath's 'Morning Song', and Mary Wroth’s 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (85)', amongst others.
Description: 1st Year Notes on Form in Poetry. The notes focus on simple forms (e.g. quatrains, couplets and tercets) as well as some more complex forms of poetry (such as ottawa rima, the Spenserian stanza and the sonnet). They also briefly cover form in Plath's 'Morning Song', and Mary Wroth’s 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (85)', amongst others.
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Reading English Notes – 6 October 2017
‘Form and Birth’:
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Poetry governed by traditions and schemes (rhyme schemes), which can be utilised or
disregarded
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Each
form has implicit rules and conventions
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Called ‘Common Metre’
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Unyielding,
offers little in the way of alternative interpretations
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Often paired with Quatrains to make up other
forms of poetry
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Baillie uses open couplets and frequent enjambment,
stressing connection between lines but also between child and the
fascinating world beyond – the verse stretches beyond limits itself
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The form of On My First Son
mirrors the bereavement commemorating the death of his heir, being
fragmented, deathlike and conclusive, which documents the voice’s
disruption of grief
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The tercet gives the
idea of focusing on a particular centre, and this idea is both adopted and
contradicted in Sylvia Plath’s Morning Song
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This line also marks the
first time that the voice uses the personal pronoun ‘I’
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The stanzas are linked together by imagery: ‘fat gold watch’, ‘magnifying’ (evokes
images of a magnifying glass), ‘mirror’, ‘pink roses’, ‘cat’s mouth’ and ‘balloons’
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The circularity of the poem is also emphasised by the repetition of
sounds in the first and last stanzas
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The last three symbols – Tactile, made to be touched and played
with
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Poem shows how form can both compliment and contradict – Tercet form can both
emphasise two lines and two ideas – both a centre, or a fixed point, and a circle
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Again, form is a way of
setting ideas apart, or just linking them together
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Lord Byron’s Don
Juan is written in this, and the form makes the poem both uniform and naturalistic,
like a conversation
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There are no long words, all written in
natural English, and the use of enjambment makes the ideas spill over into other
lines
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Byron uses bathos at the end of the poem – a
move from the exciting to the benign – in the last couplet
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Spenser’s The
Faerie Queen is written in this form, but with the last line in iambic hexameter (as
opposed to iambic pentameter), called an alexandrine
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The language in The Faerie Queen is ornamented, deliberately
artificial, reminding us that the poem is an allegory, and does not lay bare openly its
meaning, reminding us that we are dealing with crafted language and ideas, and not
with reality
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It has 14 lines, and two distinct forms: English
(Shakespearian) and Italian (Petrarchan)
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English
Italian
A
A
Stanza 1
B
B
A
B
B
A
C
A
Stanza 2
D
B
C
B
D
A
E
C
F
D
Stanza 3
E
E
F
C
G
D
G
E
Volta
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Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (85): An English sonnet, but the rhyme scheme of
ABAB BABA CDCD EE recalls the Italian sonnet
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The third stanza moves
on to reject and condemn lasciviousness, defining the argument in the poem
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In a similar way, the first stanza deals with movement, with the only fixed point being the
image of a ‘harbour’, which again could support the interpretation that Wroth is
condemning lasciviousness, hence the idea of moving (away from it)
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The third stanza uses legal language,
condemning lasciviousness as wickedness, and highlighting language as an agent of change
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When analysing form, look for:
Shifts in rhyme scheme/meter, as this often marks the introduction of new ideas, or
a shift in focus
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Traditional poems inherit and use readymade frames by taking a particular form
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Title: Poetry - Form
Description: 1st Year Notes on Form in Poetry. The notes focus on simple forms (e.g. quatrains, couplets and tercets) as well as some more complex forms of poetry (such as ottawa rima, the Spenserian stanza and the sonnet). They also briefly cover form in Plath's 'Morning Song', and Mary Wroth’s 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (85)', amongst others.
Description: 1st Year Notes on Form in Poetry. The notes focus on simple forms (e.g. quatrains, couplets and tercets) as well as some more complex forms of poetry (such as ottawa rima, the Spenserian stanza and the sonnet). They also briefly cover form in Plath's 'Morning Song', and Mary Wroth’s 'Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (85)', amongst others.