Instruction
In this discussion you'll think about how poems sound. What difference, if any, do you hear between a song and a poem?
Begin by reading "We Real Cool" by Gwendolyn Brooks and "Here a Pretty Baby Lies" by Robert Herrick, both in your textbook. Compose a short post in which you analyze these poems in terms of their prosody. How do they sound? Do they have rhythm or meter? Tell us which musical devices they use (possibilities: stanza, rhythm, rhyme, sound effects, repetition, assonance, alliteration). How do these musical devices contribute to the meaning or the emotional impact of the poem?
We Real Cool
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.
Here a pretty baby lies
Here a pretty baby lies
Sung asleep with lullabies
pray be silent, and not stir
Th' easy earth that covers her.