WEDNESDAY: THINGS TO KNOW/DO

Spenserian Sonnets go HERE 


So what do iambic mean:

unstressed, stressed syllables - such as into the sun.

Anapest: unstressed, unstressed, stressed - such as intervene, or all must die.

Dactyl: stressed, unstressed, unstressed - such as enterprise or color of

Trochee: stressed, unstressed - went to church to

Spondee: YOU ASS! stress stress

or:
(1) IAMBIC (the noun is "iamb"): an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable, a pattern which comes closest to approximating the natural rhythm of speech. Note line 23 from Shelley's "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples":
And walked with inward glory crowned

(2) TROCHAIC (the noun is "trochee"): a stressed followed by an unstressed syllable, as in the first line of Blake's "Introduction" to Songs of Innocence:
Piping down the valleys wild

(3) ANAPESTIC (the noun is "anapest"): two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable, as in the opening to Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib":
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold

(4) DACTYLIC (the noun is "dactyl"): a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables, as in Thomas Hardy's "The Voice":
Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me


TONE: The author’s implicit attitude toward the reader or the people, places, and events in a work as revealed by the elements of the author’s style. Tone may be characterized as serious or ironic, sad or happy, private or public, angry or affectionate, bitter or nostalgic, or any other attitudes and feelings that human beings experience. 


1) We also need to discuss: "The Heights of Macchu Picchu".

Neruda's poem is actually the 3rd poem in the book, "The Heights of Macchu Picchu" which is one book in a collection called CANTO GENERAL (which Neruda modeled after LEAVES OF GRASS) and which contains the history of South America (and an unfavorable view of U.S. relations with South American countries). Think IMPERIALISM. SO what is Macchu Picchu about?

2) Spenserian Sonnet:

Invented by Edmund Spenser, author of the classic THE FAERIE QUEENE, it has the pattern: ABABBCBCCDCDEE

The pattern sets up four distinct line-groups (like the English sonnet). The quatrains (ABAB BCBC CDCD) set up three distinct but related ideas and couplet acts as a commentary. Line 9 usually starts the volta.

see Spenser Sonnet 75