All About Poetry…

1. All About Poetry…

2. Keep a Poem in Your Pocket Keep a poem in our pocket And a picture in your head And you’ll never feel lonely At night when you’re in bed. The little poem will sing to you The little picture bring to you A dozen dreams to dance to you At night when you’re in bed. So… Keep a picture in your pocket And a poem in your head And you’ll never feel lonely At night when you’re in bed. -Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

3. How Poets Work: Poets LOOK closer  Poets play with SOUND Poets make                 COMPARISONS

4. Poetry It is difficult to give poetry a definition. A poem is an emotional experience. It is a thought or feeling, transmitted by the imagination into images and expressed in a beautiful and usually patterned language.

5. Rhyme Rhyme is the likeness of sound at the end of words. We piled, with care our nightly stack Of wood against the chimney-back The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, And on its top the stout back-stick. - “The Hearth Fire” by John Greenleaf Whittier

6. Rhyme Scheme We piled, with care our nightly stack(A) Of wood against the chimney-back(A) The oaken log, green, huge, and thick, (B) And on its top the stout back-stick. (B) - “The Hearth Fire” by John Greenleaf Whittier When reading a poem, use a different letter to keep track of each rhyme sound. That is the poem’s rhyme scheme.

7. Rhythm/ Meter Rhythm is a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. Also called meter. A rhythm can make a poem sound serious or silly. • Sisters Heart to Heart – by Joanna Duchs • From the time that we were little,I knew you’d always beNot just a loving sisterBut a caring friend to me. • A shoulder I could cry on,A helping hand in times of need,A cheerleader to lift me up,My angel in both word and deed. • We told each other secrets;We giggled and we cried.We shared our joys and sorrows--We were always side by side. • We have a very special bond;I knew it from the start.You’ll have my love forever--We’re sisters, heart to heart.

8. Assonance Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds followed by different consonants. “Tune” and “June” are rhymes; “tune” and “food” are assonant. Example: mad hatter And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. --Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

9. Consonance Consonance is the repetition of final consonant sounds. Example: east, west Ralegh has backed the maid to a treeAs Ireland is backed to EnglandAnddrives inlandTill all her strands are deadened.

10. Repetition Repetition is the recurring use of a sound, a word, a phrase or a line.It is used to appeal to our emotions and to emphasize important ideas. Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening – Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know.His house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound's the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

11. Parallelism • Repeating the same idea over and over to emphasize a point. The lazy and sluggish snake Bit the merry and cheery little girl, Making her all sad and mournful

12. Mood Mood is the overall emotion created by a work of literature. Look at these two different moods: 1)        Winter GardenStark naked flower stalksStand shivering in the wind.The cheerless sun hides its black lightBehind bleak, angry clouds,While trees vainly tryTo catch their escaping leaves.Carpets of grass turn brown,Blending morosely with the dreary day.Winter seems the death of life forever. 2) Spring GardenStunningly dressed flower stalksStand shimmering in the breeze.The cheerful sun hides playfullyBehind white, fluffy, cotton-ball clouds,While trees whisper secretsTo their rustling leaves.Carpets of grass greenly glowBlending joyfully with the day.Spring brings life to death.

13. Lines, Stanzas and Verse A Line of Poetry • a single line of words in a poem A Stanza in Poetry • a group of lines of poetry (2 or more) arranged according to a fixed plan Verse in Poetry • a poem, or piece of poetry; part of a song following the introduction and preceding the chorus

14. Stanzas… • Couplet: a two line stanza • Triplet: a three line stanza (sometimes Tercet) • Quatrain: a four line stanza • Cinquain: a five line stanza

15. Couplet Do you see the word "couple" in couplet? A couple is two of something. A pair of lines of poetry that are usually rhymed. Arrows I shot an arrow toward the sky, (A) It hit a white cloud floating by. (A) The words sky and by are end rhymes. We'll use the letter "A" to mark the rhyme pattern. We can string couplets together to make a longer poem.

16. Couplet Continued The cloud fell dying to the shore, ( ) I don’t shoot arrows anymore. ( ) - Shel Silverstein • The words shore and anymore are end rhymes. What letter will we use to mark this rhyme scheme? • Pick a topic • Write a Couplet on your own • What is the rhyme scheme?

17. Quatrain • Quatrains are four line poems. The lines usually rhyme in two patterns. Lines one and two and three and four (AABB) or lines one and three and two and four (ABAB). Gumeye Ball There’s an eyeball in the gumball machine, Right there between the red and the green, Lookin’ at me as if to say, “You don’t need anymore gum today.” - Shel Silverstein Anteater “A genuine anteater,” The pet man told my dad. Turned out, it was an aunt eater, And now my uncle’s mad! -Shel Silverstein What would their rhyme scheme be?

18. Another Quatrain Mix an onion milkshake, Take a hearty drink, You’ll wind up with a headache Quicker than you think! Question: What is the rhyme scheme?

19. Another quatrain… The cat on a mat Played with my hat Under the yellow sun On a day of great funWhat is the rhyme scheme?

20. Limericks The limerick takes its name from Limerick, Ireland. It is humorous and full of nonsense. It is a five line poem that consists of a triplet & a couplet. They often contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms and other figurative devices. • The 1st, 2nd & 5th lines rhyme, with 3 beats per line • The 3rd & 4th lines rhyme, with two beats per line. • The last line is usually the punch line (the heart of the joke) There once was a student at school (A) Who would not conform to the rule (A) He used all his time (B) To write funny rhyme (B) And limericks he used as his tool. (A)

21. Another Limerick… There once was a man with no hair. He gave everyone quite a scare. He got some Rogaine, Grew out a mane, And now he resembles a bear!

22. You Try a Limerick • Complete this limerick with words that rhyme. There once was a princess named Meg Who accidentally broke her _____ She slipped on the ______ Not once, but twice Take no pity on her, I _________. • Write a limerick using these five words: kangaroo, zoo, too, pouch and ouch. • Write your own limerick.

23. Syllables • A unit of pronunciation having one vowel sound • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious • How many syllables?

24. Haiku This is a form of Japanese poetry. A haiku has only three lines (triplet), with five, seven and five syllables. A haiku usually describes a season of the year or some aspect of nature. Cold as a snowball Chilled colder than the white snow A lonely goodbye. --------------------------------------------- Some snowflakes descend To blanket a barren branch Others kiss the earth.

25. Haiku Continued I am first with fiveThen seven in the middle --Five again to end. Now you try to write a haiku.

26. Lyric Poems Lyric poetry can be sung to musical accompaniment (in ancient times, usually a lyre). Lyric poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. “Musical in sound”…. Ode to Joy by Buster Baxter I've had cabbage, lettuce, blackberries Pasta, oats and strawberries Bagels, beans and hot dogs Eggplant, ham and cheese logs I've had pumpkin and potato Truffles and tomato Diced, sliced, cubed and riced Boiled and fried Soaked and dried Burgers, tacos, ice cream too Radishes red and berries blue Despite all this, I'm feeling thinner... Still, that was lunch, now what's for dinner?

27. A NARRATIVE POEMtells a story and can be about anything. Sometimes the poem's lines have a rhyming pattern. Sometimes they don't rhyme at all. Jimmy Goes to the Cityby Arthur Read Jimmy was a happy apeUntil some hunters caught himHe liked the jungle better thanThe city where they brought himThe city was louderThe city was meanerEven the dirt in the jungle was cleanerSo Jimmy made a daring escape!The hunters were suddenly minus one ape!He climbed the tallest buildingBecause from there he'd seeHow far away the jungle wasFrom the middle of the city.Jimmy jumped into a passing planeBut the pilot didn't wait for him to explainJimmy flew back to the jungleAnd told his ape friends in their lair"The city's okay for a visitBut you couldn't make me live there." Narrative Poems

28. Ballads Ballad Poems are poems that tell a story like a narrative poem and often have a repeated refrain. A ballad is usually about love and often sung like a lyric poem. They usually have: • Four line stanzas (quatrain) • Rhyming • Repetition The Ballad of the Green Beret: http://youtu.be/LH4-tOqLH94 http://www.brownielocks.com/balladofthegreenberetsWAVE.html

29. Free verse is just what it says it is - poetry that is written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc. In free verse the writer makes his/her own rules. The writer decides how the poem should look, feel, and sound.  Notice: i is not capitalized and there aren’t “normal” sentences….It’s free verse. Winter Poem once a snowflake fell on my brow and i loved it so much and i kissed it and it was happy and called its cousins and brothers and a web of snow engulfed me then i reached to love them all and i squeezed them and they became a spring rain and i stood perfectly still and was a flower - By Nikki Giovanni Free Verse

30. More Free Verse… A Dream I dreamed the clouds were dragons. Billows of fluff, not fire Came toward me. I needed not my sword.

31. Sonnet – 14 Lines Specific meter and rhyme scheme. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? – William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? a Thou art more lovely and more temperate: b Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, a And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: b Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, c And often is his gold complexion dimmed: d And every fair from fair sometime declines, c By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed; d But thy eternal summer shall not fade, e Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; f Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, e When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: f So long as men can breathe, or eye can see, g So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

32. Epic • A long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic or legendary figure. Two of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer, which tell about the Trojan War and the adventures of Odysseus on his voyage home after the war

33. Onomatopoeia in Poems… • SOUND OF NATURE by Marie Josephine Smith • Ticking, tocking.Head is rocking.Tippy toeing.Quietly.Snap, crack.Crushing branch.Helter, skelter.Run for shelter.Pitter, patter.Rain starts to fall.Gathering momentum.Becomes a roar.Thunder booms.

34. Acrostic Poetry An acrostic poem is one in which certain letters, often the first letter of every line, form a name or a theme. Apples are yummy.Pretty and juicy.Please pick only when ripe.Licking jelly apples are fun.Eat them day and night.

35. Shape Poems This is a shape poem. Ideally, it should describe the shape it is, and rhyme, but as you can see, this one doesn't. But this will give you the idea: FUNNELHere is a little poem ... well, maybe it's not so little, but it certainly is a poem ... although, come to think of it,this doesn't really rhyme, so maybe it's nota poem either; but anyway, here it is,and as you can see, it is of course funnel shaped, and before toolong, quickly comes to the point, and right at about this placedown hereat theend!

36. More Shape Poems "Idea: Old Mazda Lamp, 50-100-150 W" By John Hollander

37. Tanka Saying Goodbye Carefully I walkTrying so hard to be braveThey all see my fearDark glasses cover their eyesAs mine flow over with tears Like a Haiku Syllables: 5, 7,5,5,7

38. DIAMANTE squaresymmetrical, conventionalshaping, measuring, balancingboxes, rooms,clocks, halosencircling, circumnavigating, enclosinground, continuouscircle Line 1: one word(subject/noun that is contrasting to line 7) Line 2: two words(adjectives) that describe line 1 Line 3: three words(action verbs) that relate to line 1 Line 4: four words (nouns)first 2 words relate to line 1last 2 words relate to line 7 Line 5: three words(action verbs) that relate to line 7 Line 6: two words(adjectives) that describe line 7 Line 7: one word( subject/noun that is contrasting to line 1)