Poetry

1. Poetry An Introduction to styles and structures

2. Meter • Is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse • Many forms of poetry have their own specific verse structures

3. Iambic pentameter • Common meter • Shakespeare • Unstressed syllable followed by stressed syllable • Has five of these groups of syllables in each line. (Total of 10 syllables per line)

4. Couplet • Pair of usually 2 lines that rhyme and share the same meter. Strange fits of passion have I Known: And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover’s ear alone, What once to me Befel.

5. Free verse • Poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern • It does displays some elements of form. • E.G. observe a convention of the poetic line.

6. Repetition • Of sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza or metical pattern. • May reinforce or even substitute for meter.

7. Metaphor • A term or phraseisapplied to something to which it is not literally applicable in order to suggestaresemblance. Argument is war: words are bullets that can inflict harm; the mind is a territory that can be disputed.

8. Simile • Afigureofspeechin which two unlike things are explicitly compared • Argument is like war: words like bullets can inflict harm.

9. Alliteration • The repetition of consonant sounds in words near each other The rusted rifles rabid rattle rings For all to here, Feverish fear for the still silence it supplies. The fate for all those there.

10. Onomatopoeia • The formation of words whose sound is imitative of the sound of the noise or action designated, such as hiss, buzz,  and bang The bee’s are buzzing as they make sweet honey Busy in there little hive until Bang! It falls.

11. Personification • Theattributionofa personal nature or character to inanimateobjects or abstract notions. The chair hungered for it victims, Its thirst for blood was never sated. Not even when one was seated Waiting for the end.

12. Poetry Styles Following examples from the handout

13. Lyric Poem • Address the Reader directly • Have no specific structure conventions • No rhyme/ meter • Content focuses on thoughts and feelings

14. Haiku • Form of Japanese poetry. • Traditionally focused on nature and relies on creating images. • Consists of three lines of specific length: • 5 syllables • 7 syllables • 5 syllables

15. Sonnet • Themes usually focus on love or philosophy • modern sonnets cover almost any topic. • specific rhyming pattern and meter (iambic pentameter) • Consist of 14 lines: • 3 groups of 4 • one final complement of 2

16. Concrete Poetry • Arrangement is as important as conventional elements in conveying message. • Picture has to be based on content of the poem. • No rhyme or meter restrictions. • No specific type of content

17. Breeze By Court Smith

18. War Poetry • A style coined from the poetic output of soldiers in the trenches in WW1 • No specific structural conventions • All about content – soldiers experience, horrors of war. Battle of Gallipoli

19. Refrain • A Refrain is a phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem • Often found at the end of each stanza Edgar Allan Poe – The Raven

20. Acoustic/Name Poetry • Form of short verse constructed so that the initial letters of each line taken consecutively form words. • Content will describe the person or word.

22. *Remember, punctuation and indention is arbitrary (meaning it’s up to you, the author to put it in your poem)