WHAT IS PO

ETRY?

UNIVERSAL: ALMOST AS ANCIENT AS LANGUAGE

SAYS MORE AND MORE INTENSELYLanguage: Communicates info Communicates experiencePersuades

THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATING EXPERIENCE IS THE CRITERIA OF LITERATURE.

LiteratureBROADENSDEEPENS

experience.

THE EAGLE” BY LORD TENNYSONHe clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

“WINTER,” BY SHAKESPEARE• Why is this poem included? • Shows a series of concrete details to help us experience this winter

life ourselves.• What point is raised and shown?• That poetry does not have to be either beautiful or contain any great

moral to be poetry.

“DULCE ET DECORUM EST”• First, simply note down why the poem is included in this

chapter, “What is Poetry.”• Again, what is the point? What are the authors using this poem to

SHOW us.

• Secondly, use this poem as your FIRST of THREE for poems to analyze this chapter.

POETRY IS A MULTIDIMENSIONAL LANGUAGE• Poetry has at least four dimensions:

• Intelligence• Senses• Emotions• Imagination

• Ultimately, what qualifies as poetry depends on an informed reader. It achieves its extra dimensions by drawing more fully and consistently than ordinary language on a number of language resources (coming up in later chapters).

ASSIGNMENT:“The Eagle” this is part of your NOTES for the chapter. “Dulce et Decorum Est”* This may count as the FIRST of THREE POEMS you analyze

Select TWO more POEMS on your own. Try to find poems that truly appeal to you, not just the shortest, easiest ones.

Remember:Write down the title of each of the poems.Number the questions, and write full answers so I don’t have to

refer back to the question to understand your answer.