Hip hop started to become big in the seventies, and rhyme and flow, both poetic techniques, are very important to hip hop music. These poetic techniques have seemingly always been important to the writing and expressing of hip hop or rap music, and are always changing. For example as stated…

The form of poetry that is blues is very unique, as it originated as African American traditional music and follows a particular style and rhythm. It uses iambic pentameter, caesura, repetition, especially of the first lines in a stanza, and contains themes that are very “blue”, like unhappiness and pain…

The sonnet is a quite structured type of poem, usually having to consist of a rhyme scheme and iambic pentameter, as well as always just 14 lines. A common theme among sonnets throughout history as well as still today is love, all different kinds. In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote a…

The pantoum is a form of poetry that includes the repetition of the same end words in each of its six quatrains. Two of those repeating lines will occur in the first stanza and the last stanza, kind of as a way to bring the poem full circle, but by…

Haiku, in my opinion, is one of the most interesting and impressive forms of poetry, as it often says so much in just three phrases, just a few words. One of the most common focuses for haiku poems is seasons or nature, especially in earlier haiku, as it is easier…

The form of poetry that is ghazal seems to be very unique and unlike many other, more common forms of poetry. One of the most unique aspects of ghazal poetry is the repetition it includes at the end of each couplet, and repetition is mainly what brings the ideas of…

Robert Hass, in the book for this course, A Little Book on Form, provides these definitions of form: 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…

Through this experience in interviewing a few different people about their pandemic experiences I truly learned a lot more than I thought I would. I interviewed mainly young people in the same position as me, a college freshman who was a senior in high school when the pandemic started, but…