I can't tell which syllables are stressed and which are just going along for the ride. It's moderately infuriating. Iambic pentameter is going to be the death of me. Every time I think of a nice line, it isn't in the right format. Bob Saget, you're a poem nazi. I mean it. I can't wait untill we're free from the Shakespearean tarpit our class seems to be trapped in. It'll make my life sooooooooo much better. I learned to like Lear a bit. I can appreciate reading and discussing sonnets. Writing them is just frivolous and frustrating. ARG.
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Frustrating: yes. Frivolous? Hardly. I mean, if we wanted easy work we would simply write haiukus (or dirty limericks). Here is one just for you:
MS complains much
Assault of sonnet form is
Out of control. WRITE!
JJ:
I think you're wrong in saying that haikus are easy. Your haiku actually isn't legit because it gives no indication of what season it is, nor what time of day. I also used to mess around with haikus a lot and the best ones I've read or written follow a stress pattern where every other syllable starting with the first one in every line is stressed and all the rest are unstressed. A sentence-like thought should also be completed within a line. Your comment makes me sad.
--Little Red
First of all, I would just like to congratulation Sio on her sheer ownage of Bob Saget. Secondly, I would like to say that I meant the word frivolous in the following sense of the word: "of little or no weight, worth, or importance; not worthy of serious notice" Because it simply isn't useful to me. Writing dirty limericks would be fun, at least that would serve me in some way. Fun is good. Some people (Bob Saget) hate fun. Sonnets, in contrast, make me want to tear off someone's limbs. This whole assignment could be entirely overlooked and we wouldn't really lose any valueable lesson. I understand that there are 10 sylables in each of the 14 lines with five metered feet and the sylables are arranged in a pattern of "stressed, unstressed". That's all I really feel like I need to know. You can't just say "BE CREATIVE! NOW!" and expect top quality work, at least, not from me. It's quixotic and makes me rather angry.
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