Poetry & Song

1. Poetry & Song English Communications 11

2. What is Poetry? • Each of you has been given 1 quote about poetry • These have been written by famous poets, authors, historic figures and everyday people • Read your quotes aloud to the class • Now… what is your definition of poetry?

3. What is Poetry? • A form of writing that means more than ordinary speech can communicate • It uses figurative language, sound devices, imagery, and emotions to paint a descriptive picture for its readers • Poetry may appear to mean very different things to different readers • Each interpretation is valid • There may be much more in a poem than the author was aware of

4. What is Poetry? • The Dead Poets Society • Book Ripping Scene

5. Types of Poetry • Narrative: • Tells a story about a tragic event, popular legend, courageous act, or great love • Lyric: • Emphasizes the personal thoughts and feelings of the poet • Dramatic: • The poet adopts the persona (“mask”) of another person • Social Commentary: • Comments on society, criticizes social habits, customs, attitudes and problems to promote changes in the individual or society

6. Types of Poetry • Poetry makes use of: • Figurative Language • Metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, irony, overstatement (hyperbole), understatement, oxymoron, paradox, pun, symbol • Sound Devices • Alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, meter, refrain, rhyme, stanza • Imagery • The representation through language of sense experience; language that appeals to the senses

7. Poetry Analysis • Figurative Language in Poetry • Analyze poetry as a class and in small groups in order to determine use and purpose of figurative language • Look for the following elements of figurative language in the provided Poem • Metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, irony, overstatement (hyperbole), understatement, oxymoron, paradox, pun, symbol

8. Poetry Analysis • Sound Devices in Poetry • Analyze poetry as a class and in small groups in order to determine use and purpose of sound devices • Look for the following elements of sound devices in the provided Poem • Alliteration, assonance, consonance, onomatopoeia, meter, refrain, rhyme, stanza

9. Poetry Creation #1 • Gymnopeid • 1. Listen to the video and, while you watch, write down adjectives that describe the images and sounds before you

10. Poetry Creation #1 • Gymnopeid • 1. Listen to the video and, while you watch, write down adjectives that describe the images and sounds before you • 2. Choose 5 of your favorite adjectives and list tehm vertically

11. Poetry Creation #1 • 1. Listen to the video and, while you watch, write down adjectives that describe the images and sounds before you • 2. Choose 5 of your favorite adjectives and list tehm vertically • 3. Write a sentence beginning with each of those 5 adjectives

12. Poetry Creation #1 • Your end result is a prose style poem! • Prose: non-rhyming speech in everyday language

13. Poetry Creation #2 • Cinquain • Non-rhyming • 5 line poem • ______, • ______, ______, • ______,______, ______, • ______, ______, ______, ______, • ______

14. Poetry Creation #2 • Cinquain • Non-rhyming • 5 line poem • 1 Subject or noun, • 2 Adjectives that describe line 1, • 3 Action verbs that relate to line 1, • 4 Feelings or a complete sentence that relates to line 1, • 1 Word synonym of line 1 or a word that sums it up

15. Poetry Creation #2 • Hamburgers, • thick, juicy, • Delicious, scrumptious, yummy, • Better still with relish, • Hamburgers • Create one Cinquain of your own on any topic! • Hawk • Powerful, free • Soaring, swooping, sailing, • Always searching for prey • hawk

16. Poetry Creation #3 • Individually create a poem about some of the events in Hold Fast • Include at least 3 Sound Devices & 3 Figurative Language elements • Highlight/Color Code each of these Sound Devices & Figurative Langauge elements in different colors