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Creative Writing The world of Poetry ENTER

Poetry True or False? • All poetry has to rhyme. Click on the answer you choose. True FALSE

False! Poetry is the art of expressing one’s self and the things surrounding them. • Notice Rhyming is not included in the definition. • Many people assume Poetry is nothing more than rhyming words in a love poem, however that is not the only way to write poetry. Why?

Wrong • The Answer is False. • Click on the link for an explanation. Review

What does it mean? • There are just as many ways to write poetry as there are to express yourself: Infinite. • Three main factors are length, form, and subject • Next let’s review some important words. • Then we will start withthe three main types of Poetry, each displaying the different factors. Let’s go over them, then test your knowledge! Vocab

Important Vocab to Remember • Poem- a product of self-expression that uses the nature of song and speech that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical. Next

Important Vocab to Remember • Line- a sting of words, similar to a sentence, but does not need punctuation. • Most poems will use punctuation at some point, be it a period at the end or a comma here and there. Lines end in poems to add emphasis or a pause on certain words to give meaning, similar to commas in a regular sentence. Next Previous

Important Vocab to Remember • Stanza- a group of lines that form a meaning, equivalent to a verse in a song. Next Previous

Important Vocab to Remember • Title- an extra line to add clarity to the poem. • A title does not have to be what the poem is about, most will instead use it to clarify the true meaning of their poem. Since Most poems tend to be metaphorical, so this is a very common technique. Metaphorical poems can be read differently by every reader, titles help the author communicate the intended meaning to the reader. Onward Previous

Check it out! Rhyming Summary Non Rhyming Free-Verse

Rhyming • Many different types. • Any subject from love to death and everything in between. • Note the definition of poetry. Review Back Next

Rhyming • An endless amount of different forms, if the author chooses to follow a form. • If there is no specific form, like in a Limerick or Sonnet, then the poem is called Free-Verse. • Poems can also rely on the flow of words like in Syllabic poems, which can rhyme, but do not have to. Back Next

Rhyming Limerick Sonnet Syllabic Free-Verse Back Next Form

Limerick • Typically 5 lines • Normally used for humor and quite often very obscene. BACK Example

Limerick The limerick packs laughs anatomical Into space that is quite economical. But the good ones I've seen So seldom are clean And the clean ones so seldom are comical. Unknown Author Clear Pattern, the last word in each line rhymes like this, A A B B A The pattern of a Limerick is A,A,B,B,A BACK New Example

Limerick There Once was a Man called Reg Who Went with a Girl in a Hedge Along came his wife With a big Carving Knife And cut off his meat and two veg ~ Matt Barton A A B B A Notice the pattern is the same, A,A,B,B,A. Also notice that the topic of this poem is not the same as the last example Previous Ex. Back to Rhyming

Sonnet • Typically 14 lines. • Older style, less modern. • Shakespeare was famous for his many, many sonnets. • Others poets have written sonnets as well, just not as many. BACK Example

Sonnet Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments, love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come, Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. ~William Shakespeare A B A B C D C D E F E F G G BACK New Example

Sonnet The Oven Bird There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in the showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And comes that other fall we name the fall. He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing. The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing. ~Robert Frost A B A B C D C D E F E F G G Previous Ex. Back to Rhyming

Syllabic • Several ways to approach Syllabic poems. • All forms use a fixed number of syllables per line. • Typically the last line is the only exception. • Stress and tone are the two main elements. • These can rhyme but do not have to. BACK Example

Syllabic Roses are red, Violets are blue, Sugar is sweet And so are you ~Unknown Author Notice, even though the last line does not match the syllabic pattern completely; all words only have 1 syllable the last word rhymes with a previous line to make it fit still. 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 BACK New Example

Syllabic "No Swan So Fine" "No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan, with swart blind look askance and gondoliering legs, so fine as the chintz china one with fawn- brown eyes and toothed gold collar on to show whose bird it was. Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth Candelabrum-tree of cockscomb- tinted buttons, dahlias, sea urchins, and everlastings, it perches on the branching foam of polished sculptured flowers — at ease and tall. The king is dead. ~Marianne Moore 7 8 6 8 8 5 9 7 8 6 8 8 5 9 She used a pattern of syllable line by line and did not use rhymes. Previous Ex. Moving on

Non Rhyming • As mentioned, not all poems have to rhyme. • Next are examples of types of poems that do not. Next Back to Rhyming

Non Rhyming Story/ Narrative Paragraph Free-verse Previous Ex. Next Form Back

Story/Narrative • Poetry can take on multiple elements at once. This example uses a paragraph form and the element of a story. • Ballads and Epics are also forms of narrative poetry. • This is an example of a Ballad. • Ballads are narrative poems in stanzas. They can rhyme, but do not have to. They are often spoken and passed as folk-lore. BACK Example

Story/Narrative Rainbow yetiOver the rainbow there is an army of yetis ready to attack the fair tail world called earth they have been building their army under the great General Shea-yeatiface-ducksauce, who rides his magic unicorn into battle screaming remember the titans, which means nothing because we are all yetis here. Our great leader Master Dictator Yeti is said to have lots of the money, but we don’t need money because we can fly and everything we ever wanted comes from our fur. … ~Talon Full Poem at, http://www.youngwritersproject.org/taxonomy/term/21022 Note how the subject is about potatoes and yetis. Poetry can be about anything. BACK New Example

Story/Narrative This one does rhyme. As I mentioned, narratives typically use more than one element of poetry. This one uses rhymes and is in the form of a ballad. Be With Me This is a ballad for the good timesSo put a battery in your legPut a rock beat over anythingGet it stuck there in your headYou can be with meI got nothing to rely onI've broken every boneEverybody's stop believingBut you know you're not aloneYou can be with meThis is a ballad for the good timesAnd all the dignity we hadDon't get het up on the evil thingsYou ain't coming backYou can be with meIf you want to beYou can be with me.... ~James Dickenson Previous Ex. Back to Non Rhyming

Paragraph • Exactly as the title suggests, this form is in the form of a solid block of text rather than stanzas. • The story/narrative example, “Rainbow Yeti,” was also an example of paragraph. Review BACK Example

Paragraph The List of Many Famous Hats Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famoushat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat forshow. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all hon-estywasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at acorner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. Thefirst one isn't even funny: Simply it was a white rubber bathingcap, but too small. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his… ~James Tate Full Poem at http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15578 Also note the subject of this poem is famous hats; nothing real serious. BACK Back to NON Rhyming

Free verse • Free-Verse poems are the most common in modern poetry. • There is no set structure. • Rhyming and syllabic flow is allowed, but you do not have to have a specific structure binding the poems. BACK Example

Free verse • These poems are the easiest to do because the lack of rules binding them. • They can sometimes be in a block of text like a paragraph or ballad, however there is a distinct difference. Free-verse poems do not care how their lines end. All paragraph form and ballads end their lines specifically to give extra meaning and emphasis on certain words. Free-verse does not take this into consideration. BACK Example

Free verse Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. ~Carl Sandburge There are two stanzas, but non of the two have a specific form and no set pattern is found. BACK New Example

Free verse Washed Away Nothing's changed except me and the facts And the sadness I didn't mean to start. But it feels different now you've said It's wrong, and I still can't see your point. And I think as water runs over my hands that That's really all there is or can be. The gold is wearing off the infamous ring And something wears away from around my heart. ~Katherine Foreman This example seems to be a narrative, just one with no set structure. Previous Ex. Back to forms

Summary for Poetry • Poetry has an infinite amount of forms and the poet doesn’t even have to follow one. • Poetry is a form of free expression. • There are no constraints to the subject of a poem. Review Next

Summary for Poetry • Poems can be about anything and be as long or short as the poet wants. • Some are two lines, some are four or five pages long. • Poetry doesn't even have to make sense to the reader since it is the poets self-expression. • Let’s test what you have learned! Back Quiz

Quiz Time!! • Let’s test what we have leaned. • If you find there is something you did not understand, you may go back and review. Review Begin

Question 1 • What is poetry? The art of expressing one’s self and the things around them. Rhymes and fancy language. Mushes stuff about love and dying.

Good Job! • The art of expressing one’s self and the things around them. Review Next

Try Again • Not quite. • These view are bias view created when a person does not understand the truth about poetry. • Try again or review. Review Try again

Question 2 • Poetry is based on, Choose the answer that best fits. Self Expression Love and life Anything

Good Job! • Poetry is essentially whatever the poet wants it to be. • Be it yetis, hats, love, death, a bird, anything and everything. Sometimes poets write poems about nothing and they make no sense, because they are not supposed to. Review Next

Very Close • Try again. • This is very close, but not quite. Review Try again

Question 3 True or False? • You have to write poetry in specific forms. True FALSE

Right! • Poetry doe not have to follow a form, this is called Free-Verse. Review Next

Not Quite! • Poetry has forms you can follow, but you do not have to. Review Try again

Question 4 • Poems have to be (length), At least one stanza A page There are no length constraints

Very Good! • Correct! • There are no length constraints in poetry. A single word on a page could be called poetry. • Poems can be as long or as short as they want. • The art of Free-Expression. Review Next

Try Again • Not quite right, give it another shot. Review Try again

Question 5 • True or False? Everyone has to understand a poem for it to be good. True FALSE

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