Poetry

1. Poetry Learning ballads, free verse, sonnets, haiku, odes, lyric poem epic and limericks.

2. Styles of Poetry Poetry is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.

3. Ballads Free Verse Sonnets Haiku Odes Limericks Epic Lyric Poem Could play with music Doesn’t need rhythm Certain number of lines Certain number of syllables Extensive Subcategories

4. Getting Familiar with the terms: Ballads • A narrative song with a recurrent refrain • A ballad is a poem usually set to music • A narrative poem composed of short verses, intended to be sung or recited • Example: Untitled • Characteristics: stanza form, imagery

5. Free Verse • Verse depending for its poetic effect upon irregular rhythmical pattern, either absence or irregularity of rhyme, and the use of cadenced speech rhythms rather than conventional verse forms • Characteristics: informal • Example: Wishing Well p 452 lit. bk

6. Can you write in free verse? Good Tips rhythm or no rhythm long or short simple or complex

7. Sonnets • A verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme • Rhyme scheme usually follows: ababcdcdefefgg (Elizabethan, Shakespeare) or abbaabba (Italian) • Characteristics: 14 lines, rhyme scheme Example: How do I love thee?

8. Odes • A lyric poem with complex stanza forms • A long, stately poem in stanzas of varied length, meter, and form • Example: Alexander’s Feast • Characteristics: lengthy, complex, no conventional rhyme scheme

9. Limericks • A limerick is a five-line poem with a strict form; rhyme scheme usually aabba • Limericks are frequently witty or humorous, and sometimes obscene with humorous intent • Example: Tim, Old Man in a Boat • Name your limerick!!

10. Haiku • Haiku is a kind of Japanese poetry • Poetry that is three lines long. The first line is five syllables, the second line is seven syllables, and the third line is five syllables long. • Examples: Baked Goodies, Falling on the Ground, and Haiku Space. • Can you haiku?

11. Write your haiku poem! Good Tips first line has five syllables second line has seven syllables third line has five syllables

12. Epic Poem • Long narrative poem • Celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero • Deals with traditions, mythical or historical, of a nation • See sample Tiddalick

13. Lyric Poem • that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions. • Dying (aka I heard a fly buzz when I died )byEmily Dickinson • I heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm. • Click the following link for the full version of Dying