I have chosen the Organic form for my poetic form. I plan to research George Oppen. The poems I am going to be reviewing are “The Forms of Love” and “Street”, both by George Oppen. My two influential ideas are: Forms Constrain and Forms Differ My Podcast Format: I think…

The poetic tool of hip-hop is one that is utilized by many hip-hop artists. It has been a major literary source for over twenty years. It has made an impact as a genre while also being the primary force behind the “spoken word” movement. For rappers who were speaking in…

The Blues evolved from the late nineteenth century from southern field hollers and work songs. The work songs were structured around African music, verbal, and communal patterns. Later, the songs were influenced by Europen and Hawaiin instrumental techniques. The Blues is an “American poetic form with roots in oral performance…

The Sonnet is a European poetic form primarily used by feminists, African Americans, and the progressive working class. As a result, the Sonnet has a history of five hundred years in literature in Great Britain or Ireland. The Sonnet has represented the claims of popular language over learned Latin. In…

A pantoum is a poetic form that originated in France in the 1800s. The poetic form contains between eight and twelve syllables in each line. The first two lines of the Pantoum “…prepare us in image, sound, and suggestion for the meaning proper in the last two (Salleh 254). It…

The poetic form, Haiku, originated from Japan consisting of a five-seven-five pattern of syllables. The earlier term for Haiku is Hokku which means “starting verse.” This meant that it, “…functioned as a kind of shorthand that marked the time and place of the renga’s composition by referring to traditional seasonal…

The Ghazal presents “a formal unity based on rhyme and refrain and prosody” (210), and is formed through independent couplets that are held together. The couplets are autonomous with the ability for each to be presented differently such as comically, tragically, romantically, and so on. Not only are the couplets…

One meaning of form that has currency has the meaning “traditional form,” which usually means the use of rhyme and meter. Another meaning is that it refers to one of a number of traditional kinds poems that apply particular rules of composition. As in “the sonnet is a form.” Another meaning is “external shape.” Another is “the arrangement and relationship of basic elements in a work of art, through which it produces a coherent whole.”

My name is Brienn DeCarlo and this is my introduction video. https://youtu.be/0p_MWZ0CJUA