Free Verse

 

Free Verse is free from the limitations of fixed meter and rhyme; but this is not to say that it lacks poetic techniques. In fact, its freedom allows the poet to pick and choose among many rhyming, metric and language devices to develop each line successively. Free verse is very rhythmic, often patterned after the spoken word. In free verse, the poet makes frequent use of such devices as image, symbol, internal rhyme and figurative language. The difficulty of free verse lies in achieving unity within the poem, given the endless possibilities for developing the ideas.

 

After reading Wallace Steven’ 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, write your interpretation of the verse, you are assigned, below:

 

Verse______

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the presentations, fill in the remainder of the interpretations below:

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III.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IV.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

V.

 

 

 

VI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

IX.

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

XI.

 

 

 

 

 

 

XII.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

XIII