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Exploring Poetic Elements and Forms in Poetry

Dive into the world of poetry and discover how poets use various elements like imagery, symbolism, and figurative language to create masterpieces. Explore different forms of poetry such as narrative, haiku, limerick, and sonnet, each with its unique structure and style. Unearth the power of word choice, rhyme scheme, and rhythm in shaping poetic expressions. Join the journey through lines, stanzas, and verses to unravel the beauty of language and creativity.

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Exploring Poetic Elements and Forms in Poetry

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  1. Poetry Unit

  2. Poetry • Poetic Devices- Writing practices used by poets to create the different types of poetry • Imagery: Language that appeals to the 5 senses • Symbolism: The representation of something using symbols or hidden meaning • WordChoice: The careful selection of words to create the desired tone and meaning • FigurativeLanguage: Language that means more than what is said on paper. A deeper or hidden meaning is present.

  3. Poetic Elements • Rhyme - the repetition of sounds at the ends of words, such as pool, rule, and fool.

  4. Poetic Elements • Rhyme Scheme - The rhyming pattern within a poem. • AA BB CC DD • AB AB AB • ABCB • AA BB C Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the King’s horses & all the King’s men Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet Eating her curds and whey Along came a spider Who sat down besde her And frightened Miss Muffet away.

  5. Poetic Elements • Rhythm - the beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

  6. Poetic Elements • Meter - regular rhythm

  7. Poetic Elements • Repetition (Anaphora)Using any element of language – a sound, word, idea, etc…– more than once for effect or emphasis.

  8. Poetic Elements • Alliteration - the repetition of sounds in the beginning of words: lovely lonely lights.

  9. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Simile- a comparison of two unlike things using like or as • She is as slow as a turtle.

  10. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Metaphor – a comparison of two unlike things without using like or as • He was a monkey in the trees.

  11. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Personification–gives human qualities to non-human things • The ocean crashed angrily during the storm.

  12. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Hyperbole-An extreme exaggeration! • If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times!

  13. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Idiom-a saying that is used to get a point across. -usually specific to one language • I realized I was in a pickle as soon as the test began.

  14. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Oxymoron –Opposites used together in contradiction • Example: Jumbo Shrimp.

  15. Poetic Elements (Figurative Language) • Onomatopoeia– words that sound like what they represent • Example: Crackle, boom, bang!

  16. Poetic FormsDifferent Types of Poems

  17. Poetic Forms: • Narrativepoetry tells a story in verse. Narrative poems often have similar elements to a short story, such as plot and characters.

  18. Poetic Forms: • A ballad is a form of narrative poetry which is often set to music.

  19. Poetic Forms: • Concretepoems-poems shaped to look like their subjects. The poet arranges the lines to create a picture on the page.

  20. Poetic Forms: • Haiku - a 3 line Japanese poem. The first and the third lines each have 5 syllables and the second line has 7. Green and speckled legs,Hop on logs and lily padsSplash in cool water.

  21. Poetic Forms: • Limerick - a humorous, rhyming, five-line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme (AABBA). There once was a fellow named Tim whose dad never taught him to swim. He fell off a dock and sunk like a rock. And that was the end of him.

  22. Poetic Forms: • Free Verse –poetry without a standard rhythm or rhyme; does not follow rules

  23. Poetic Forms: • Sonnet – “little song” A 14 line poem that expresses a single, complete thought William Shakespeare (1564-1616) From fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty’s rose might never die.But as the riper should by time decease,His tender heir might bear his memory:But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes,Feed'st thy light’s flame with self-substantial fuel,Making a famine where abundance lies,Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel.Thou that art now the world’s fresh ornamentAnd only herald to the gaudy spring,Within thine own bud buriest thy contentAnd, tender churl, mak'st waste in niggarding.Pity the world, or else this glutton be,To eat the world’s due, by the grave and thee.

  24. Poetic Forms: • Couplet- 2 rhyming lines of poetry written back-to-back • Quatrain- a stanza or poem of 4 lines, usually with an alternating rhyming pattern Shel Silverstein I have the measles and the mumps, a gash, a rash and purple bumps. You say today is...Saturday? G'bye, I'm going out to play! Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?AThou art more lovely and more temperate:BRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,AAnd summer's lease hath all too short a dateB Donna Brock The mountain frames the sky,AAs a shadow of an eagle flies by,AWith clouds hanging at its edge,BA climber proves his courage on its rocky ledge.B

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