Hello, Andrew! I wanted to say thank you for all your videos, they have helped me tremendously in my poetic journey, be it reading or writing. I hope you will continue teaching us the tiny intricacies of this beautiful art form we call poetry.
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
I will--thanks for the kind words!
@travishancock91204 ай бұрын
Well, I am a songwriter, and I have always been impressed with the lyrical authority or Sting, who wrote beautiful, poetic lyrics for his songs. My hope is that by learning more on the subject of poetry I will be able to replicate that beauty and flow in my own work. Thanks for the lesson.
@WritingwithAndrew3 ай бұрын
You bet--you can do it!
@danii_maciasr9866 Жыл бұрын
Watching this an idea occurred to me. Would you mind analyzing a poem on video? I think that breaking down a poem you consider influential to you (for whatever reason) is quite instructional, to say the least. Anyhow, loved the video, thanks for providing us such quality content.
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
I think that's a great idea--I've been thinking the same thing the last few days. Putting it on the list!
@AsuraSantosha Жыл бұрын
Hello friend! So happy to see the next in the poetry series!
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
Glad to hear it!
@PapaBeersАй бұрын
Excellent information! You've answered so many of my questions from delving into amateur scansion.
@WritingwithAndrewАй бұрын
Glad to hear it!
@devorahallen465710 ай бұрын
Poetry is so cool. Like, the feel and rhythm just feels so natural when it's done right, and it seems at first like it's all artsy-fartsy and right-brainy. But the closer you look, the more you realize it's the perfect melding of language and math.
@N.KayKerr Жыл бұрын
Cute title pun.
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
lol thanks
@forthrightgambitia103210 ай бұрын
The greatest poem using amphibrach is, in my humble opinion Byron's "The Destruction of Sennacherib": "The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee." The words seem to imitate the sound of galloping horses.
@timothyhume3741 Жыл бұрын
First time I've seen you blink, I mark this down in homemade ink. Black walnut, burdock root, charcoal, lamp black just plain old soot. Ho shoot, oh shoot, what a hoot. Cheers and thanks for the footfalls of so many feet.
@ormulyce Жыл бұрын
Into the metrical poetry’s hurdle, this video is an incredible kick!
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ormulyce Жыл бұрын
@@WritingwithAndrew my pleasure.
@VajraDhara-bl9cw10 ай бұрын
Dear Mr. Andrew where can I read your poetry??? I really want to read you work!? Thank you for what you are doing; the videos are as if not more compelling than the material you are presenting!!! Amazing! Thank you 😊🙏 😊🙏😊🙏
@joshuaharper372 Жыл бұрын
It is often quite fun and instructive to see where truly excellent poets vary the meter in their poems (particularly in strict forms), since there is often a very compelling reason for the change. Any time a poet sets up a pattern and then changes it, the change may mark an important transition or peak moment. (This is most evident in skillful and experienced poets, of course.)
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely!
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely!
@swivellogic Жыл бұрын
Uh oh. They both say Unstressed’ ‘ ‘ 😮 1:47
@darkengine59316 ай бұрын
I'm really starting to think syllabic scansion of rhythm (beyond stressed syllables) is often counter-productive since rhythm is a function of timed patterns first and foremost, not merely stress patterns, and merely focusing on syllables without paying attention to their varying lengths and pauses in between gives us no understanding of actual rhythm. To focus purely on syllables ignores the foremost aspect of rhythm which is time. Your videos emphasizing time have made more sense out of scansion to me than any of my previous courses on poetry. A drummer who alternates between kick drum and snare drum, for example, in a consistent accented pattern still won't sound the slightest bit rhythmic if his timing is chaotic and all over the place. Such is the same as I see it with rhythm in prose and poetry; it doesn't matter how consistently we conform to syllabic stress patterns if the timings are all over the place. Example: >> Jim had flown today. A syllabic scansion will reveal this as trochaic, but it isn't at all rhythmic when read in a natural way; it's rhythmically jarring and all over the place because of the length of "FLOWN" -- unless we read it like a kindergarten teacher to quantize the timings of the stressed syllables: >> JIMmm had FLOWN tooDAYyy. Yet we can actually improve the natural rhythm of this without reading it in such a contrived way by breaking from strict trochaic feet: >> Jimmy had flown today. And to my ears, this actually sounds _"more trochaic"_ -- not less -- despite disrupting the syllabic tuple meter; it actually better conforms to an actual rhythmic duple meter through this syllabic disruption. Or alternatively stick to the trochaic pattern, but we need a longer stressed syllable than "Jim" to match "FLOWN": >> Marge had flown today. Both versions are rhythmic improvements to my ears, alleviating rhythmic tension/dissonance and smoothing out the timings and lengths of notes while conforming them better to a time-oriented, rhythmic pattern. The more I think about timings, lengths, and natural pauses and the less I obsess on syllables as I was taught to do, the more I'm alleviating years worth of confusion I've had about the subject since my first introduction to poetic scansion.
@WritingwithAndrew6 ай бұрын
Interesting--rhythm is an experience of timing, but, since English is a stress-timed language, that timing is a function of syllable stress. Glad it's helping!
@darkengine59316 ай бұрын
@@WritingwithAndrew I've also failed to previously understand why passages like this flow so nicely against the orthodox scansion, from George R.R. Martin: >> The PALE pink LIGHT of DAWN SPAR-kled on BRANCH and LEAF and STONE. "DAWN SPAR" doesn't seem to create much of a harsh rhythmic disruption. There is a brief temptation to pause after "DAWN" or elongate it, but it doesn't seem to mess up the overall iambic flow much at all. Yet if we replaced "DAWN" with a terse syllable like "DAY", suddenly the tension becomes much harsher and the temptation to pause much greater unless we alleviate by inserting something after it like "DAY had SPAR". Yet thinking about this in terms of time, it's much easier for me to tell why "DAWN" doesn't create such a rhythmic disruption. While it's only a single syllable, it's a fairly drawn out one, so the time between "DAWN" and "SPAR" isn't so uneven compared to the time between other stressed beats. "kle on" also doesn't seem too jarring, since the "kled" sound connects to "SPAR" for "sparkled" and doesn't include the short pauses we make between words. So it's not too much of an elongation of time between "SPAR" and "BRANCH".
@darkengine59316 ай бұрын
@@WritingwithAndrew I'm noticing certain syllables are "stretchier" (more elastic) than others as well. For example, "cat" has minimal "elasticity"; it wants to be pronounced naturally in a very fixed timing as a staccato word. Meanwhile, "cart" seems like a more flexible syllable that can smoothly stretch in a legato fashion to fill out gaps in stress timings without a jarring and abrupt pause. "Dawn" above also seems reasonable stretchy this way. 1. The GUILD MAS-ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED him a FINE. 2. The SCARRED MAS-ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED him a FINE. 3. The DIR-ty MAS-ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED him a FINE. 4. The JE-lly MAS-ter GLARED at MAX and CHARGED him a FINE. #1 and #2 should be more rhythmically dissonant than #4, jamming two stress syllables ("GUILD/SCARRED MAS") right next to each other, but they actually seem even smoother to me than #4 and I think both because of the length and elasticity of "GUILD" and "SCARRED" syllables, while "JE-lly" is very rigid and terse. #3 seems fairly smooth thanks to the length and elasticity of "DIR" in "DIR-ty".
@geoffreycanie4609 Жыл бұрын
this is what my class is doing tomorrow morning
@WritingwithAndrew Жыл бұрын
Exciting! I guess that's today by now...I hope it went well!
@Pietro-vr4sy Жыл бұрын
11:41 LMAOO
@Tabby.chanel5 ай бұрын
Thanks for making me hate poetry. Not you in particular - but this horrible academic approach to poetry.
@WritingwithAndrew5 ай бұрын
Let's not confuse traditional meter in particular with poetry in general