week 5 critical #3

Blank verse

I first I thought blank verse was really easy because it was written in the form that we talk in. There is no rhyming, so you don't have the stress to make words fit. It also is very flexible with meter . But actually in order to write a good blank verse poem have to have some constraints. Or it will just come out sloppy and nothing would separate it from being a poem and and an essay. Its usually written in iambic pentameter. So it even though it doesn't rhyme it should have a beat to it. Since blank verse is easy it it requires you to have creativity. From looking at our packet this week Blank verse is usually long. Shakespeare used a lot of blank verse for his dramatic plays.

My favorite blank verse poem is:

Job Interview

Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife He would have written sonnets all his life? DON JUAN, III, 63-4 "Where do you see yourself five years from now?" the eldest male member (or is "male member" a redundancy?) of the committee asked me. "Not here," I thought. A good thing I speak fluent Fog. I craved that job like some unappeasable, taunting woman. What did Byron's friend Hobhouse say after the wedding? "I felt as if I had buried a friend." Each day I had that job I felt the slack leash at my throat and thought what was its other trick. Better to scorn the job than ask what I had ever seen in it or think what pious muck I'd ladled over the committee. If they believed me, they deserved me. As luck would have it, the job lasted me almost but not quite five years. William Matthews