The Verse Technique and Poetry course
was aimed at poets and non-poets alike, on the basis that techniques
for rhythmic writing, assonance and rhyme are invaluable aids
to exciting prose writing as well as poetry. PG encouraged students
to think of verse technique as a useful foundation for subsequent
courses in any creative writing discipline.
Class processes are not recorded here, but the topic sheets
distributed to students during the course were as follows:
- Stressed & Unstressed Syllables
and Metre
- Assonance & Rhyme (including
single, double, triple and "hidden" rhymes)
- Metrical Schemes (including rules
governing classical forms such as sonnet, villanelle, triolet,
haiku, ottava rima, etc)
- Evocative language: stimulating
the imagination
- Poetical use of rhetorical devices (in
terms of patterns of sounds and/or ideas, opposites and contradictions,
word play, inclusion by omission, etc)
- Depth of meaning (including discussions
of how to engage the intellect and the meaning and use of subtext)
- Written voices:(the voice as subtext,
descriptive text vs self-description, etc)
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