Poem traditions
For the next two weeks, we will steep ourselves in poetry, reading all the poems collected in our textbook. Read as many of the poems as often as you can, then select one you particularly like, and create a poem that imitates or is inspired by what you selected.
This assignment is due in Week 3.
Poetry Writing Analysis
In a well-crafted essay of three to four pages (excluding the pages on which your own poem and the poem you are working with are placed), refer to our lecture and consider the following questions.
1. Does your poem extend or argue with the tradition of the poem you selected to imitate?
2. What relationship to historical context does your primary poem bear?
3. What relationship to historical context does your own poem bear?
4. What is the role your reader plays as a participant in creating the poem’s meaning?
5. Look at William Wordsworth’s Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads, particularly his concept of “the overflow of powerful emotion…recollected in tranquility” compared to T. S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent, in which he rejects emotion: “It is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor, without distortion of meaning, tranquility” from which poetry is crafted. (These essays are online and easily found.)
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