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Poetry: The Basics

Poetry: The Basics. By: Carley Burke. What is poetry?. literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Stanza. Definition: A group of lines that form a unit of the poem.

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Poetry: The Basics

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  1. Poetry: The Basics By: Carley Burke

  2. What is poetry? literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm

  3. Stanza • Definition: A group of lines that form a unit of the poem. • Purpose: Long poems are usually broken up into stanzas to make them easier to comprehend • Example: I Love To Write Poems (First Stanza) I love to write Day and night What would my heart do But cry, sigh and be blue If I could not

  4. Verse • A single metrical line of poetry • One line of poetry from within a stanza • Example: “What would my heart do” This line was taken from the stanza on he previous slide.

  5. Sonnet • A fourteen line poem that follows a strict rhyme scheme (octave followed by sestet) • Example: Shakespeare’s “Sonnet Number 18” Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

  6. Lyric • A short poem, often songlike, with the emphasis not on narrative but on the speaker's emotion or reverie. Whereas a narrative is set in the past, telling what happened, a lyric is set in the present, catching a speaker in a moment of expression • Example: "If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! "Excerpt from 'If' by Rudyard Kipling

  7. Meter • A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Examples: • Iambic • Trochaic • Spondaic

  8. Meter • Iambic (X /) : That time of the year thou mayst in me behold • HINT:da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM • Trochaic (/ X) : Tell me not in mournful numbers • HINT: DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da • Spondaic (/ /) : Break, break, break/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea! • HINT: DUM-DUM

  9. Quiz On the following slide, there will be three example of meter. Identify which is Iambic, Trochaic, and Spondaic meter. Hint: Iambic = da DUM da DUM Trochaic = DUM da DUM da Spondaic = DUM DUM DUM

  10. Quiz • “i HAD a LIttleDOG,It's FUR was SOFT as WOOL;It FOLLowedMEaROUND,My HOME, my STREET, my SCHOOL” • ”LANDSCAPE PLOTTED and PIECED--FOLD, FALLOW, and PLOUGH” • “Eeny, MEENY, miny, MOE” CATCH a TIgerBY the TOE”

  11. Answers • Iambic (da DUM da DUM) • Spondaic (DUM DUM DUM) • Trochaic (DUM da DUM da)

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