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Poetry and Art. What do we do with them. Quote. Do not worry about what a poem is or whether you can write one. No one knows exactly what a poem is, anyway. Think of a poem as just as shape of words on a page—whatever shape you want—a shape of words trying to see and feel life more clearly.
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Poetry and Art What do we do with them
Quote Do not worry about what a poem is or whether you can write one. No one knows exactly what a poem is, anyway. Think of a poem as just as shape of words on a page—whatever shape you want—a shape of words trying to see and feel life more clearly. g. lynn nelson
What’s in a poem? • Imagery: The elements in a literary work used to evoke mental images, not only of visual, but sensational and emotional as well • Tone: The speaker’s attitude in style or expression toward the subject, e.g., loving, ironic, bitter, pitying, fanciful, solemn, etc. Tone can also refer to the overall mood of the poem.
Structure in Poetry • Couplet – 2 lines • End-stopped line – thought stops at the end of the line • Enjambment – Sentence/phrase runs over multiple lines • Foot: Group of syllables (2, 3, or more) • Meter: number of feet per line • Free verse –no rhyme, no rhythm • Quatrain- 4 lines of a poem • Rhyme scheme – pattern of rhyme • Stanza – group of lines
Scansion • Scansion: The analysis and graphic display of a line's rhythm performed by scanning the line to determine its metrical categorization and describe the rhythmical pattern of a poem. Whose woods these are I think I know His house is in the village, though; u / u / u / u / Whose woods | these are | I think | I know u / u / u / u / His house | is in | the vill- | age though;
Sounds in Poetry • Alliteration: the repetition of the initial sounds (usually consonants) of stressed syllables in neighboring words or at short intervals within a line or passage, usually at word beginnings, as in "wild and woolly“ • Assonance: The relatively close juxtaposition of the same or similar vowel sounds, but with different end consonants in a line or passage, thus a vowel rhyme, as in the words, date and fade.
Alliteration Definition Example The repetition of initial consonant sounds in two or more words or syllables. The wild and wooly walrus waits and wonders when we walk by.
Sounds in Poetry • Consonance: The close repetition of the same end consonants of stressed syllables with differing vowel sounds, such as boat and night, or the words drunk and milk • Onomatopoeia: The use of words which imitate sounds, like whispering,clang and sizzle
Onomatopoeia Definition Example Naming a thing or an action by imitating the sound associated with it. Buzz, hiss, roar, woof
Language at its best Figurative Language
Definition Language that communicates ideas beyond the original meaning of the words. It stimulates vivid pictures in the reader or listener’s minds.
Metaphor Definition Example Comparing two things without using like or as. The desert is a burning carpet.
Idiom Definition Example Phrase or expression whose words have a different meaning from their usual meaning. Carla didn’t mean to let the cat out of the bag.
Hyperbole Definition Big exaggeration, usually with humor Example I ate a mile-high ice cream cone.
Simile Definition Example A figure of speech comparing two unlike things using the words like or as The sun is like a watchman looking down.
How to read poetry and art - TPCASTT • Title: Ponder the title before reading the poem. What does it literally mean? • Paraphrase: Translate the poem into your own words • Craft: Think about all the literary techniques, devices, and figurative language beyond the literal • Attitude: Observe both the speaker's and the poet's attitude (tone) • Shifts: Note shifts in speakers and in attitudes (All poem’s have shifts) • Title: Examine the title again, this time on an figurative/interpretative level • Theme: Determine what the poet is saying
Journey's End by J. R. R. Tolkien In western lands beneath the SunThe flowers may rise in Spring,The trees may bud, the waters run,The merry finches sing.Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night,And swaying branches bearThe Elven-stars as jewels whiteAmid their branching hair.Though here at journey's end I lieIn darkness buried deep,Beyond all towers strong and high,Beyond all mountains steep,Above all shadows rides the SunAnd Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,Nor bid the Stars farewell.
ART We can use some of the same language to look at art that we use to analyze poetry. Art has: • A title that can be both literal and figurative • A story • A way the story is told or presented • A medium in which it is presented • A feeling that it gives the viewer • A theme or moral to the painting
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Figures of Speech to figure out! • Allusion • Apostrophe • Metonymy • Extended Metaphor • Oxymoron • Synecdoche
Workshop • In groups of 3-4, pick a figure of speech that you do not know: • Allusion • Apostrophe • Metonymy • Extended Metaphor • Oxymoron • Synecdoche • Create a poster that includes: • a definition and explanations of varieties • examples • a visual symbol • a song, rap, or poem using the figurative language • a slogan (like Nike – just do it!) • You will have 5 minutes in class to teach everyone about this type of figurative language. Their test grades depend on you!
