Poetry

1. Poetry p. 191-195

2. A Simile to explain poetry • Poetry is like a circus. • Full of color, motion, and excitement

3. Poetry appeals to our senses • Pleasing to the eyes • Sings to the ears • Tickles the taste buds

4. What is Prose? • Prose • Short stories, novels, newspapers, any type of essay • Longer, looser works or paragraphs • Everything poetry is not!

5. What does Poetry do? • Squeezes meaning into a short number of lines and words • Ends in a specific place to make a special effect • Stanzas

6. Language of the Poet • Suggestion • Exaggeration • Comparison

7. Poetry also… • Poetry inspires the reader to look at the world in new ways • Poetry expresses feeling • Brief, rhythmic, colorful • Tells stories in a compact fashion

8. Basic Elements of Poetry • Sound • Figurative Language • Form • Imagery • Speaker

9. Sound • Words are used to create appealing sounds. • Four Techniques: • Rhyme • Rhythm • Repetition • Onomatopoeia

10. Rhyme • The repetition of the same or similar sounds in words that appear near each other in a poem. • End Rhyme: rhyme that comes at the end of lines • Perfect Rhyme: Rhymes that after their first consonant sounds, their remaining sounds are alike

11. Rhyme Scheme • The pattern of end rhymes in a poem. • Lowercase letters describe the scheme. • A limerick is aabba. The first two lines rhyme, the second two lines rhyme, and the first two rhyme with the last.

12. Rhythm • The pattern of beats made by stressed or unstressed syllables in the lines of a poem • Meter-regular stressed and unstressed beats

13. Refrain • A line or group of lines repeated at regular intervals, appears in some songs and poems • Example: “The Cremation of Sam McGee”

14. Repetition • The repeated use of sounds, words, phrases, or lines • Emphasizes important items and helps unify a poem or other work of literature

15. Onomatopoeia • The use of words whose sounds suggest their meanings. • Crack, boom, bang!

16. Figurative Language • Poet uses language that stretches words beyond their usual meaning • Alliteration, simile, metaphor, onomatopoeia, personification, symbolism, etc.

17. Form • The way a poem looks on a page. • Poems are written in lines or shapes • Stanzas-lines grouped together • Run-on lines ( , ; : ) • End-stopped lines ( . ? ! )

18. Form • Free Verse • No pattern or structure • Sounds like conversation • Specific Forms • Limerick, Diamonte, Shape, etc.

19. Traditional • Any poem that follows the strict structure and rules of traditional form • Usually begin each line with a capital letter. • Written in basic lines and stanzas unless it is a specific form (ex. Haiku)

20. Modern Poetry • Poems that do not have to follow a specific, traditional structure • Comes in many forms • Capital letters to begin lines are not required • No set structure or form followed

21. Narrative Poetry • Narrative poetry is a specific form that tells a story • Setting, characters & plot

22. Concrete Poetry • Poetry that uses typography or placement of letters and words to create an image. • Shapes are suggested or revealed

23. Imagery • Image or mental picture that is created with words which appeal to one or more of the senses • sight, sound, taste, touch, smell are affected as you read

24. Speaker • The voice that relates the story or ideas of the poem • Poet • Person who writes poetry (not always the speaker) • Speaker may be… • Poet • Character or voice

25. Meaning • The central idea or emotion behind the poem • Restate the poem in your own words, paraphrase, ask yourself is the poem about a person? Place? Thing? Feeling? Idea? • What emotion do you feel when you read the poem? • Who is the speaker?

26. Tone • Writer’s attitude toward his or her subject matter. The feeling the author projects from the words chosen. • Examples: • Angry, humorous, factual (Mood is the feeling the reader gets from the work. Ex. eerie, suspenseful, joyful)

27. Reading Poetry Strategies • Preview the poem and read it aloud a few times. • Visualize the images. • Clarify the words and phrases. • Evaluate the poem’s theme. • Let your understanding grow.