week 5

Week 5: This week we learned about poetry and how to analyze its content. To my surprise a lot of its analysis is done by researching the author and his background. I consider the research that studies the author’s geographical, political, and social setting, a starting block for examining his poetry. I always thought that poetry was hard to read, but it wasn’t until this week that I learned that it was much harder to write. During this week we wrote a ballad—a poem consisting of quatrains (four line stanzas) of alternating lines of iambic (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter (six syllables), known as ballad meter (wikipedia).