Using Sound to Create Meaning

In a taped discussion with Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren entitled "Conversations on the Craft of Poetry," (1959) Frost made an interesting statement: "One of the things that I notice with myself is that I can't make certain word sounds go together, sometimes they won't 'say.' This has got something to do with the way one vowel runs into another, the way one syllable runs into another. And then I never know -- I don't like to reason about that too much. I don't understand it, but I've changed lines because there was something about them that my ear refused. And I suppose it has something to do with vowels and consonants.... I don't want any science of it." 

1. Peer edit poem
2. Analyze Frost Poem- make note of sound devices you notice and how they create mood in the poem
3. Balancing Sound and Meaning in Poetry

Portfolio (including reflection!) and sound poem due next class

Poetry coffee house on Thursday