blogs of grass, dec 4

For this blog, I want you to get inside the formal poetic fabric of Whitman's Song of Myself. Take 1-3 strophes that you found really compelling and inviting as you read the piece. While it is true that Whitman is renowned for his Free Verse poetry, this does not mean that there aren't many poetic forms functioning within his poetry. He does not write with regular end rhyme or meter, but he does deploy assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, alliteration, etc. We'll refresh some of these terms before you do the reading, and then I want you to deploy them as you write your 300-word blog on the strophe(s) that you've chosen.