1. A/ HS 1 Literature Poetry ‘The written voice’

2. How do we recognise poetry? What is it that we expect from a poem? Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. One fine day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other, Drew their swords and shot each other. If you don’t believe my tale Ask the blind man He saw it all.

3. How do we recognise poetry? Sound effects –rhyme, rhythm, assonance, consonance, alliteration Visual appearance –the shape the words make on the page Setting or scene Speaker –Who speaks? How do they speak, or in what register? Tone

4. ‘Jabberwocky’ ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogroves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jujub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!’ He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought – So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought.

5. Sound effects in ‘Jabberwocky’ ’Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesa did gyre and gimble in the wabe:b All mimsy were the borogroves,a And the mome raths outgrabe.b ‘Beware the Jabberwock, my son!a The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!b Beware the Jujub bird and shuna The frumious Bandersnatch!’b ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alliteration: initial consonants of words recur Assonance: vowel sounds recur Parallelism: repeated syntactic form

6. ‘Easter Wings’ by George Herbert Lord, Who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With Thee O let me rise, As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me. Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

7. ‘Easter Wings’ by George Herbert From The Temple 1633 online at http://www.ccel.org/h/herbert/temple/

8. Lewis Carroll, ‘The Mouse’s Tale’ From Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1865

9. Register and tone Simple (and silly) experiment –In English, write down all the different ways you can think of for saying ‘hello’.

10. Register and tone Simple (and silly) experiment –In English, write down all the different ways you can think of for saying ‘hello’. –‘Hi’, ‘Hello’, ‘G’Day’, Alright’, How ya doin’?’ –‘Good afternoon’, ‘How do you do?’

11. Register and tone Simple (and silly) experiment –In English, write down all the different ways you can think of for saying ‘hello’. –‘Hi’, ‘Hello’, ‘G’Day’, Alright’, How ya doin’?’ –‘Good afternoon’, ‘How do you do?’ –‘Your highness’ –‘What you’se lookin’ at?’ Even a simple greeting is inflected by how we say it. A poet manipulates tone and register to create their scene and speaker

12. –Take a poem on its own terms; –Assume there is a reason for everything; –Remember that poems exist in time, and times change. Norton anthology p.629-30

13. ‘next to of course god america i’, e. e cummings ‘next to of course god america i love you land of the pilgrims’ so forth oh say can you see by the dawn’s early my country ‘tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than those heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?’ He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

14. ‘next to of course god america i’, e. e cummings ‘next to of course god america ia love you land of the pilgrims’ so forth ohb say can you see by the dawn’s early mya country ‘tis of centuries come and gob and are no more what of it we should worrya in every language even deafanddumbb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorrya by jingo by gee by gosh by gumb why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-a iful than those heroic happy deadb who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterc they did not stop to think they died insteadb then shall the voice of liberty be mute?’a He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of waterc

15. ‘next to of course god America I love you land of the pilgrims’ so forth Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early My country ‘tis of centuries come and go and are no more what of it we should worry in every language even deafanddumb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorry by jingo by gee by gosh by gum why talk of beauty what could be more beaut- iful than those heroic happy dead who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter they did not stop to think they died instead then shall the voice of liberty be mute?’ He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

16. ‘next to of course god america i’, e. e cummings ‘next to of course god america ia love you land of the pilgrims’ so forth ohb say can you see by the dawn’s early mya country ‘tis of centuries come and gob and are no more what of it we should worrya in every language even deafanddumbb thy sons acclaim thy glorious name by gorrya by jingo by gee by gosh by gumb why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-a iful than those heroic happy deadb who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughterc they did not stop to think they died insteadb then shall the voice of liberty be mute?’a He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of waterc

17. ‘Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister’ Robert Browning 1842 Questions we ask as readers –What does the title mean? –Who speaks? –Where are we? What is the scene? –What is the tone of this poem?

18. Gr-r-r-there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would not mine kill you!

19. Gr-r-r-there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would not mine kill you! What? your myrtle-bush wants trimming? Oh, that rose has prior claims-- Needs its leaden vase filled brimming? Hell dry you up with its flames!

20. III Whew! We'll have our platter burnished, Laid with care on our own shelf! With a fire-new spoon we're furnished, And a goblet for ourself, Rinsed like something sacrificial Ere 'tis fit to touch our chaps — Marked with L. for our initial! (He-he! There his lily snaps!)

21. VII There's a great text in Galatians, Once you trip on it, entails 50 Twenty-nine distinct damnations, One sure, if another fails. If I trip him just a-dying, Sure of heaven as sure can be, Spin him round and send him flying Off to hell, a Manichee?

22. ‘We Real Cool’ — Gwendolyn Brooks THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL. We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.

23. As a young girl vying for my father's attention … I’d change/ into my dungarees… hide/my long hair under an army helmet emerge/ transformed into the legendary Che of grown-up talk. Strutting/ I’d tell of life in the mountains, of carnage and rivers of blood, and of manly feasts with rum and music to celebrate victories. para la libertad […] and to return invisible, as myself, to the real world of her kitchen.

26. The Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com.ezproxy.its.uu.se/

27. A/ HS 1 Literature Next lecture The Sonnet, ‘a moment’s monument’ Read the following in the Norton pp. 619, 646, 649, 833-44.