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POETRY~A medium for creative expression~
POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
POET
• The poet is the author of the poem.
SPEAKER
• The speaker of the poem is the “narrator” of the poem.
POETRY FORM
• FORM - the appearance of the words on the page
• LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem
• STANZA - a group of lines arranged together
A word is dead When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just Begins to live
That day.
Rhyme Scheme
• Rhymes at the end of lines of poetry• To indicate the rhyme scheme of a
poem, use a separate letter of the alphabet for each rhyme
Rhyme Scheme
Darkness settles on roofs and walls, a_But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; a_The little waves, with their soft, white hands, b_Efface the footprints in the sands, b_And the tide rises, the tide falls. a_
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from “TheTide Rises, the Tide Falls”
Internal Rhymes
• Rhymes within lines of poetry
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon there came again a tapping somewhat louder than before
- Edgar Allan Poe, from “The Raven”
~IMAGERY~
Appeals to the five senses
The bear in the back room is wormy
Its meat is all stinky and squirmy,
So I’m reading a book
About how to cook
And another about taxidermy.
~SIMILE~
“Sometimes when the moon
Looks like a slice of orange impaled on a tree fork….”
From “Insomniac”
by Patricia Y. Ikeda
~a comparison using the words “like” or “as”
“It seems to meYou’ve lived your lifeLike a candle in the
wind”
Elton John
~METAPHOR~
My brother is
A PIG!
~a direct comparison; does NOT use “like” or “as”
Metaphor
Dreams
Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren fieldFrozen with snow.
- Langston Hughes Image from http://goinglocoinyokohama.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/hughes.jpg
~PERSONIFICATION~
~giving human qualities to inhuman things or objects
“…And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know
that we were gone”
Sara Teasdale
The fog comes
on little cat feet
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
Carl Sandburg
~ONOMATOPOEIA~
“Black is the clear glass now that he glides,
Crisp is the whisper of long, lean strides…”
from “The Skater of Ghost Lake”
by William Rose Benet
~when a word sounds like what it means
Onomatopoeia
• In “The Bells”, by Edgar Allan Poe, he creates a frenzied mood
by choosing words that imitate the sounds of alarm bells Oh, the bells, bells, bells!What a tale their terror tellsOf Despair!How they clang, and clash, and roar!
5 What a horror they outpourOn the bosom of the palpitating air!Yet the ear, it fully knowsBy the twanging And the clanging
10 How the danger ebbs and flows.
ONOMATOPOEIA
• Cafeteria
Boom! Went the food trays. Clap! Clap! Goes the teacher.Rip! Went the plastic bag.Munch! Munch! Go the students.Slurp!!! Went the straws.Whisper Is what half the kids in the room are doing.Crunch! Crunch! Go the candy bars.
• By: Rachael
ALLITERATION
• Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
ASSONANCE
• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.
Lake Fate Base Fade
“Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.”
- John Masefield
“Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.”
- William Shakespeare
HAIKU
A Japanese poem written in three lines
Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five Syllables
An old silent pond . . .
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.
Hyperbole
• An over exaggeration
• School Fight
• You can’t hear a pin dropAs all the kids gather around;They are vulturesWaiting for the corpseOf the one who loses.The tall kid…He swings his fist with his hurricane force.A torrential spray of bloodExplodes from the smaller boy’s noseAnd covers the tiled floor.The vultures fly awayAs the teachers quickly approach.
Slant Rhyme
• Rhymes involving sounds that are similar but not exactly the same
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were
- E.E. Cummings, from “maggie and milly and molly
and may”
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,
Meter
A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables– Free verse does not have a regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables– Sounds like ordinary speech
When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed syllables (or strong beats) and unstressed syllables (weaker beats) in each line
They then repeat the pattern throughout To avoid singsong effect, poets usually vary the basic
pattern
Kinds of Stanzas
Couplet = a two line stanza
Triplet (Tercet) = a three line stanza
Quatrain = a four line stanza
Octave = an eight line stanza
Hello, iambs!
• Each line has four unstressed syllables alternating with four stressed syllables
‘Twas brillig, and the slithy tovesDid gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,And the mome raths outgrabe.
- Lewis Carroll, from “Jabberwocky”
An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of
an unaccented syllable Ufollowed by an accented
syllable /.
U /a gain
U / U / im mor tal ize
Iambic pentameter
U / U / U / U / U /• One day I wrote her name u pon the strand, U / U / U / U / U /• But came the waves and wash ed it a way: U / U / U / U / U /• A gain I wrote it with a sec ond hand, U / U / U / U / U /• But came the tide, and made my pains his prey
» Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, Sonnet 75
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Shakespearean Sonnet
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme
scheme.
The poem is written in three quatrains and ends with a couplet.
The rhyme scheme isabab cdcd efef gg
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of
May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a
date.Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his
shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.