Tara writes (Tara Star poetry)·Jan 22Words falling from my mouth on Careless Dayspoem: My brain over-running. Should I be More Dramatic?!
Tara writes (Tara Star poetry)·Jan 4I’ll Howl like a Wolf at the Moon (Taylor Swift, The ProphecyHi, I’m Tara, poet
Naveen Mufti·Sep 29, 2025Mother of Exiles: Hope and Refuge in Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”The sonnet, described as a “fourteen-line labyrinth” (Hacker 297), originated in Europe and entered American literature near the end of the…A response icon1A response icon1
Justice shoats·Sep 22, 2025Critical Conversation Pantoum & SyntaxThe book An Exaltation of Forms, authored by Vince Gotera. This chapter explains the structure of a pantoum and discusses the role of…
Naveen Mufti·Sep 22, 2025“Atomic Pantoum”: When Conflict Sparks BlindnessThe pantoum was brought into Western literature through the colonial appropriation of the Malay-Indonesian pantun. The pantun follows a…A response icon1A response icon1
Zaara Omar·Sep 13, 2025Haiku- Seasons and TimeHaiku is a form of poetry that is defined by its strict structure, based on a set of syllables. It follows a 5–7–5 syllabic format. Haiku…A response icon3A response icon3
InLinguistic ArchitecturebyNaveen Mufti·Sep 8, 2025Bridging Distance Through the Rain: Rafique Kathwari’s “Jewel House Ghazal”The ghazal is a poetic form with roots in 7th-century Arabia (Ali 210). Though the form is often characterized by disunity through its…A response icon5A response icon5
Sophia Maddalone·Sep 6, 2025Repetition and Disconnection in Hall’s SouvenirDaniel Hall explores different styles of poetic form, such as repetition and rhythm, in his poem “Souvenir.” My thesis is that through…A response icon2A response icon2
Emma Parmerter·Sep 5, 2025Definitions of FormsRobert Hass, in the book for this course, A Little Book on Form, provides these definitions of form:
