Module 10: Discussion Forum: Open Form

Instructions: This discussion requires a more developed response. Each discussion response should be at least 100 words. Respond to TWO of the discussion posts of your peers. Your responses must be at least 50 words.
Video: How to Locate Sound Devices and Caesuras (See end of Module 9 video with Toomer’s”Tell Me”) (Links to an external site.)
Topic:
Sound devices and caesuras (Links to an external site.), or cesuras, are used in open form poems to create “music” instead of using a specific rhyme scheme or meter. Analyze the use of open form and identify the sound devices and strategic pauses (caesuras) in Stephen Crane’s “The Heart” (627) and Walt Whitman’s “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” (628). 
Tip: Sound devices refer to assonance, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. You will find the definitions on page 589 and definitions and examples at the end of a Cheat Sheet for Poetry.
Alliteration: Repetition of same consonant sound
Assonance: Repetition of same vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u)
Caesura: A pause in the middle of a line of verse usually marked by punctuation
A Note about Caesuras

a. In Greek and Latin prosody: the division of a metrical foot between two words, especially in certain recognized places near the middle of the line.
In English prosody: a pause or breathing-place about the middle of a metrical line, generally indicated by a pause in the sense.

“Caesura, n.” OED Online, Oxford University Press, September 2020, www.oed.com/view/Entry/26025. Accessed 20 October 2020.
This makes sense because a pause at the end of a line is expected unless it runs on to the next line for a reason, which is enjambment. The pause in the middle of the line is far more dramatic.
Here is an example from the last three lines of Hopkins’ “The Windhover” (Links to an external site.):
No wonder of it: sher pld makes plough down sillion
Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,
    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.
See how he uses the colon and the commas to pause for dramatic effect? It also helps the reader take a breath with all of the alliteration and assonance.

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