Sound and Sense: October 5, 2017

Focus: How can sound devices help us unlock poetry?

1. Warming up: Describing three different oceans using only your sense of sound

Relaxing ocean waves
Somewhat stormy ocean waves
Violent ocean waves


2. Offering you some of my favorite poetic sound devices

Euphony: Pleasing to the ear, harmonious

Cacophony: Harsh, discordant, unpleasant sounds

Alliteration: Repetition of consonant sounds at the beginnings of words (the snake slithered silently)

Assonance: Repetition of vowel sounds (or, as Eminem refers to it, "Word Bending")


3. Enjoying several poems together using only our ears

• What sounds are you noticing?

• How do the sounds contribute to/create the larger meanings of the poems?

4. Getting into groups with your fellow sonnet-fans and listening to the sound devices in your poems

HW:
1. Bring your laptop, your East of Eden book, your Socratic tickets, and your earbuds to class tomorrow.

2. Start reading your sonnet aloud and/or writing out it; memorize it by Monday, Oct 23.