Poetry: Tone & Form

1. Poetry: Tone & Form ENC 1102 Alling

2. All slides contain info. from Roberts & Zweig’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading & Writing “Tone: The creation of attitude in poetry”&“Form: The Shape of Poems”

3. How does a poet create tone? Diction—denotation & connotation

4. How does a poet create tone? Participants & situations

5. How does a poet create tone? Seriousness or humor

6. How does a poet create tone? Irony (making a point by emphasizing a discrepancy or opposite)

7. How does a poet create tone? Metaphors & similes

8. How does a poet create tone? Understatement, overstatement (hyperbole), & other figures of speech

9. How does a poet create tone? Speaker—self-awareness, background, relationship to listeners/readers

10. How does a poet create tone? Form—Length, repetition, stanza choices, etc.

11. How does a poet create tone? Level of formality—graceful words, slang, rhymes, etc.

12. How does a poet create tone? By using all devices to create a Consistent intention

13. If poet controls his/her tone: may gain reader’s agreement, at least for a time; may stimulate, enrich, & inspire readers

14. What is poetic form? shape, structure, pattern, or lack thereof

15. Two major forms of poetry Closed-formopen-form

16. What is closed-form poetry? clearly-recognizable shape, structures, or patterns; uses traditional conventions & restrictions

17. Some types of closed-form poems Sonnetlyricodeelegyballadhymnalhaikuvillanelletriolet

18. What is open-form poetry? Free from restrictions of closed form, such as meter or rhyme

19. What is open-form poetry? embraces spoken rhythms; topic itself shapes # of lines, line lengths, physical appearance on page (e.g. varying line lengths w/ importance of ideas, creating pauses, relying on progression of images, etc.)

20. Some types of open-form poems Free verse (new, original ways to arrange words & lines)Visual poetryprose poems

21. Recognizing Tone & Form You read & analyze Example poems