Could someone direct me to the Perrine Questions?
I need them to evaluate a poem for class. Is there a place to find them online? Thanks!
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No doubt they were provided for you in some way. Perhaps in a syllabus or handout.
Yes, I’m quite sure they were, but I appear to have misplaced them, so if they have a home online as well, I would love to find that :) Thanks!
Phone someone in your class?
The are probably something specific that your instructor developed as they are not googleable.
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May I suggest you start with your school’s website, find your teacher on it, and see if your teacher has a portion of the web set aside for classroom materials?
Ok, guys… This person is just looking for help finding the materials. They are not asking us to do their homework for them. Let’s be a little more helpful, hmm?
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Hi @yellowpoppy Which poem? I am finding notes for “Grapes of Wrath” and Haiku.
Could you please clarify a bit and I will help you search?
Hey! How was I not helpful? My daughter is taking classes both at high school and at a local junior college, and most of her teachers do indeed post everything on the school’s site.
@Darwin Not you specifically… just the general tone of the answers.
I already checked my schools site and my professor has not posted it. the Perrine Questions are questions you are supposed to ask when evaluating any poem, they are not specific to one poem. I believe the list of Questions is taken from the book Sound and sense by Perrine. Perhaps they are not listed anywhere. I just know they have been mentioned in several classes about poetry and literature I’ve been in so I thought they were a kind of universal list of questions for critiquing literature.
Here are a bunch of reviews of Perrine’s Sound and Sense. Unfortunately, it looks as though this is not one of the books that have had bits put online.
I think it’s time to call a classmate and ask what they have.
We used to be on the phone[the one on the wall!] all hours doing homework together. Or call someone who took english courses last year?
As I have a minor in English from a well respected university and have never heard of the Perrine Questions, I can assure you that this is not a universal list of questions for critiquing literature. Perhaps they are an institutional standard which is why you hear of them at you school, but they are not universal. It sounds as if you know exactly where to find the questions, in Sound and Sense, but are not looking there. So… yeah.
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