Term Tuesday

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Term Tuesday

• A discussion of literary and rhetorical terms

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Enjambment
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Definitions

• When the units of sense in a passage of poetry
  don't coincide with the lines, and the sense runs
  on from one line to another, the lines are said
  to be enjambed

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In class example by Henry Vaughan

• With that some cried, "Away!" Straight IObeyed,
  and ledFull east, a fair, fresh field could
  spySome called it Jacob's bed,A virgin soil
  which noRude feet ere trod,Where, since he
  stepped there, only goProphets and friends of
  God.

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These lines are enjambed

• With that some cried, "Away!" Straight IObeyed,
  and ledFull east, a fair, fresh field could
  spySome called it Jacob's bed,A virgin soil
  which noRude feet ere trod,Where, since he
  stepped there, only goProphets and friends of
  God.

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Purpose

• Pulls the reader through the poem
• Quickens the pace
• Sounds more natural than a pause every five feet.
  

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Literary Example T. S. Eliots The Waste Land

• April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out
  of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire,
  stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept
  us warm, coveringEarth in forgetful snow,
  feeding A little life with dried

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End-stopped

• This is the opposite of enjambed
• The line is stopped at the end with a mark of
  punctuation.

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Example of End stopped

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
• Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
• And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
• (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18)

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Writing your own

• Write a 4 line poem about the finding yourself
  with a partner. Create two versions of the poem.
  One is end-stopped, one is enjambed.

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Mrs. OBriens Finding Herself-enjambed

• Not finding yourself at the age of
• Thirty-four is a disgrace! Willy Loman
• Shouts from his play to me today. I at
• Forty-one keep searching.

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Mrs. OBriens Finding herself--end-stopped

• I think of all the people that Ive been
• You only see the shell that holds them in.
• A daddys girl farming at age ten,
• At twenty--wife, at thirty--mother hen.