Why poetry ? Or, words that shimmer or what IS THIS?

1. Why poetry?Or, words that shimmeror what IS THIS?

2. So… WHAT IS POETRY?

3. Oh yeah, I'll tell you something I think you'll understand, When I say that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand. Oh please say to me You'll let me be your man, And please say to me, You'll let me hold your hand, Now let me hold your hand.

4. And when I touch you I feel happy inside, It's such a feeling That my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide. Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand, When I say that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.

5. And when I touch you I feel happy inside, It's such a feeling That my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide. Yeah you got that something, I think you'll understand, When I feel that something, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand, I wanna hold your hand.

6. “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” • Written by John Lennon & Paul McCartney • Performed by The Beatles

7. Just gonna stand there
 And watch me burn 
But that's alright
 Because I like
 The way it hurts 
Just gonna stand there
 And hear me cry
 But that's alright
 Because I love 
The way you lie 
I love the way you lie
 I love the way you lie


8. I can't tell you what it really is
 I can only tell you what it feels like 
And right now there's a steel knife
 In my windpipe
 I can't breathe 
But I still fight
 While I can fight
 As long as the wrong feels right 
It's like I'm in flight
 High of a love
 Drunk from the hate
 It's like I'm huffing paint
 And I love it the more that I suffer
 I suffocate


9. And right before I’m about to drown
 She resuscitates me
 She f------hates me
 And I love it
 Wait
 Where you going 
I'm leaving you
 No you ain't 
Come back
 We're running right back
 Here we go again
 It's so insane


10. Cause when it's going good 
It's going great 
I'm Superman
 With the wind in his bag 
She's Lois Lane

11. 
But when it's bad
 It's awful 
I feel so ashamed 
I snap
 Who's that dude 
I don't even know his name
 I laid hands on her 
I'll never stoop so low again
 I guess I don't know my own strength



12. Just gonna stand there
 And watch me burn
 But that's alright
 Because I like
 The way it hurts
 Just gonna stand there
 And hear me cry 
But that's alright
 Because I love
 The way you lie
 I love the way you lie 
I love the way you lie

13. Written and Performed by Eminem, featuring Rihanna “Love the Way you Lie”

14. I'm in love alright, with my crazy beautiful life. With the parties, the disasters, with my friends all pretty and plastered. Every night we're down to go out, Waking up on a different couch. Till the next night, on the next flight. Yeah, I guess we're doing alright. Oh oh oh We're falling in love Oh oh oh Till the sun's comin' up. Oh oh oh Just livin' the life Oh oh oh

15. “Crazy Beautiful Love” By Ke$ha

16. tell myself on the ride home,getting tired of hating all I’ve known,holding on like its all i have,count me out when its clear that i,find it hard to say,and you find it hard to care...i wanted to see something that’s different,something you said would change in me,wanted to be anything different,everything you would change in me...

17. got this way up front but never true,god I’m wrong is this the way i am,crashing down any chance of it,caving in any chance that you,can see inside of me,and i i'll know what to say,its fine this isn’t Hollywood,so fine getting in your way...

18. i wanted to see something that’s different,something you said would change in me,wanted to be anything different,everything you would change in me...I’m taking a chance,this could be different,this could be all I’m waiting for,taking a chance,this could be different,this could be all I’m waiting for...i wanted to see something that’s different,something you said would change in me,wanted to be anything different,everything you would change in me...

19. Is this poetry?

20. How about this?

21. Is this poetry?

22. Listen. Is this poetry? “Tough Boy Sonatas” • By Curtis L. Crisler 

23. No really, Ms. G… WHAT IS POETRY??!?!!?! …’cuz we’re kind of ready to take some notes now.

24. What is poetry? • Poetry is a short literary art in which language is used to evoke emotion or tell a story. • Because it is so short…. • Rich with language and emotion • Each word carries more weight

25. Learning the key elements of poetry can unlock some of its mystery, and help interpret the meaning of different types of poems.

26. Key Elements of Poetry • Form • Speaker • Sound • Imagery • Figurative Language

27. FORM • The way a poem looks on the page is called its form. • Poems are written in lines, which may or may not be complete sentence. • In some forms of poetry, lines are grouped into stanzas. • If lines in a stanza have a regular, repeated pattern, the poem has a structured form. • Poems that have no regular pattern are called free verse poems

28. SPEAKER • The speaker of the poem is the voice that relates the story or ideas of the poem. The speaker may be the poet, speaking directly to the reader, or the speaker may be a character or voice created by the poet. • The voice may include the use of dialect, a form of language spoken in a certain place by a certain group of people. The poet may also use idioms to make the speaker’s voice more realistic.

29. SOUND • Because most poems are meant to be read aloud, poets choose and arrange words to create sounds that appeal to the listener. • Four techniques that poets use to create sound are rhyme, rhythm, repetition, and onomatopoeia.

30. IMAGERY • Imagery is language that appeals to the reader’s five senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. • Writers often use imagery to draw readers into a scene. • Think about the phrase “feather clouds” or “blistering sands.” Do the images remind you of places you’ve been or experiences you’ve had?

31. FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • Writers may use figurative language when they choose words and phrases that help readers picture ordinary things in new ways. • We will focus on four main types of figurative language: • simile, • metaphor, • analogy, • and personification.

32. Reading Poetry • Reading poetry can move us from laughter to tears. Why? Because many poems are written to express emotion. To understand the effect of a poem, pay attention to the elements of form, sound, speaker, imagery, and figurative language. Open to pg. 195 in your Language of Literature and review the 5 strategies listed for reading poetry. Outline the 5 strategies below in a way that makes the most sense to you.

33. Basic Structure • Built on words, lines, and stanzas • WORDS • Evoke sound and feeling • DENOTATION: literal definition or meaning • CONNOTATION: associated emotional meaning or feeling • EXAMPLES: home, thin/scrawny

34. Basic Structure • LINES • Give structure to the writing • STANZAS • Groups of lines • Physically separated by white space • Function like a paragraph

35. The Tropics of New York by Claude McKay Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Sat in the window, bringing memories of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical skies In benediction over nun-like hills. My eyes grow dim, and I could no more gaze; A wave of longing through my body swept, And, hungry for the old, familiar ways I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

36. EXIT TICKET The poem, “The Tropics of New York” is written by a poet who came from a tropical island but had to move to New York City. How can we tell he is homesick? Why does he weep at the end? Provide textual evidence if possible. Bananas ripe and green, and ginger root Cocoa in pods and alligator pears, And tangerines and mangoes and grape fruit, Fit for the highest prize at parish fairs, Sat in the window, bringing memories of fruit-trees laden by low-singing rills, And dewy dawns, and mystical skies In benediction over nun-like hills. My eyes grow dim, and I could no more gaze; A wave of longing through my body swept, And, hungry for the old, familiar ways I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.