Alex B.Olivia Stallworth and Alexander Babbie- Inform Short Segmentyoutube.com/watch?v=m5cOU-dknS81 min read·Dec 5, 2021----
Alex B.A Transcription of the First Segment of Inform: O&AA- And welcome back to Inform on ****, I’m Alex-1 min read·Nov 20, 2021----
Alex B.Research Question One: How does poetry reflect overall societal attitudes?Poets: Shakespeare, Milton, Lil Nas X, Emma Lazarus1 min read·Nov 13, 2021----
Alex B.Young, Scrappy, and Hungry: the Power of Hip-HopAlthough hip-hop is often dissed as a poor form of art, the form of its stanzas has been around since Elizabethan times, and is lauded as…2 min read·Nov 1, 2021--1--1
Alex B.As is typical of the blues form, repetition is central to Estella Conwill Majoso’s “The Malcolm…The lack of punctuation and capitalization, combined with the rhythmic meter, compounds the reading of this poem as spoken word; if…2 min read·Oct 25, 2021--1--1
Alex B.Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow: Lyrical SonnetsWhile most other poetic forms mandate a strict formality, the sonnet’s form is relatively simple: sixteen lines in ABAB quatrains, and then…2 min read·Oct 11, 2021----
Alex B.Like the ghazal, the pantoum is well-known for its narrative style, often seeming like a short…The effects of the use of this weapon can be seen through contradiction, as this release ends up leading to “choirs crumb[ling], with…2 min read·Oct 4, 2021--2--2
Alex B.Simplicity is Deceiving: The Haiku FormOne of the beauties of constraining forms, especially those such as the ghazal and the haiku, is that it often allows for greater…2 min read·Sep 20, 2021--2--2
Alex B.inLinguistic ArchitectureThe Ghazal and RepetitionOne of a poetic form’s greatest powers is to evoke emotion, with each time that a motif appears adding to the effect of the last. In a…2 min read·Sep 13, 2021--2--2