Poetry

1. Poetry English 10

2. How to Read Poetry • Read a poem slooooowwwwwlllllyyyyy. • People try to read fast and miss the meaning • Read in a normal, relaxed tone of voice • Don’t pause at the end of lines • Pause where there is punctuation (commas, periods)

3. Practice Poem Don’t pause until the punctuation mark! Introduction to Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

4. What you’re used to seeing… Poetry Prose I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterskiacross the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means. I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. The begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

5. I hate poetry… • Because it’s challenging  • Let’s dissect the practice poem • What does the title tell you? “Introduction to Poetry” Someone is introducing someone else to poems

6. Comprehension • 90% of you will need to read a poem multiple times to understand it. • And that’s okay!

7. Meter and rhyme scheme • Meter refers to the pattern of stressed (‘) and unstressed (u) syllables in a poem. • The rhyme scheme refers to the pattern of rhyming words at the end of each line of poetry.

8. Meter • The basic unit of meter is the FOOT, which usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables. • The most frequently used foot is the IAMB, which is one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. However, there are several different types of feet to identify:

9. Types of feet

10. Meter • A frequently heard metrical description is iambic pentameter: a line of five iambs. This is a meter especially familiar because it occurs in all blank verse (such as Shakespeare’s plays), heroic couplets, and sonnets. • Pentameter is one name for the number of feet in a line. The commonly used names for line lengths are: Monometer: one foot Dimeter: two feet Trimeter: three feet tetrameter: four feet pentameter: five feet hexameter: six feet heptameter: sevenfeet octameter: eight feet

11. “So you want to be a writer?” By Charles Bukowski if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don't do it. if you're doing it for money or fame, don't do it. if you're doing it because you want women in your bed, don't do it. if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

12. Rhyme Scheme a la adele • The rhyme scheme is charted as follows: You know how the time flies Only yesterday was the time of our lives We were born and raised In a summer haze Bound by the surprise of our glory days I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited But I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it. I’d hope you’d see my face, and that you’d be reminded That for me it isn’t over.

13. Rhyme Scheme a la adele • The rhyme scheme is charted as follows: You know how the time flies A Only yesterday was the time of our lives A We were born and raised B In a summer haze B Bound by the surprise of our glory days B I hate to turn up out of the blue uninvited C But I couldn’t stay away, I couldn’t fight it. C(near rhyme) I’d hope you’d see my face, and that you’d be reminded C That for me it isn’t over. D

14. Now Practice! • Use the first poem(s) in your packet to practice scanning for meter and rhyme scheme. You may work in PARTNERS – not groups, but partners. • Working independently is also fine. • These annotated packets will be collected with your poetry projects on exam day.

15. Intro to Sound Devices • Alliteration • Consonant sounds at beginning of words • Assonance • Repeated vowel sounds within and at end of words • Consonance • Repeated consonant sounds within and at end of words • Onomatopoeia • Words that look like the sounds the imitate: hiss, woof, bang, pow

16. Poetry Project For this project, you will be creating a poetry booklet in which you will create and assemble 5 different poems with an analysis of each poem. All five of these poems will revolve around a common theme that you will pick and explain. • Cover Page (20 points) Your booklet must include a cover page The cover should be illustrated in a way that is appropriate to the theme of your project Your name and the title of the project will be on the cover page Be creative!!

17. The Poems (10 points each) The following poems must be included in your project. They can be presented in your booklet in any order you prefer. Remember, your poems should fit the overall theme of your project. You are also welcome to illustrate your poems. An original narrative poem Must tell a story May have a rhyme scheme or be free verse An original Tanka OR Haiku poem See pages 671-72 in your textbook Must have correct number of syllables An original Shakespearean sonnet See pages 671-72 in your textbook The content of each of the quatrains and couplets will meet the characteristics given on these pages An original villanelle See page 672 in your textbook Must meet rhyme scheme and repetition qualifications A famous poem Must be written by a known poet

18. Literary Devices (25 points) Somewhere in your poems, you will include at least 5 of the following literary devices: Simile Metaphor Personification Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia

19. Comments (10 points) You are to include a page at the end of your booklet on which you will put comments from three people who have read your poems and looked through your book. Completion Checklist (10 points) The last page in your booklet will be the attached completion checklist. DUE: English Exam Day. NO LATE WORK ACCEPTED!

20. Plagiarism It goes without saying that plagiarism is completely unacceptable. Poems are widely available all over the internet, and I know how easy and tempting it may be to simply copy someone else’s work. The following acts are what I considered to be plagiarism: • Copying the entire work of another person and claiming it as your own • Copying words or phrases created or used uniquely by another person and claiming them as your own • Using someone else’s idea and claiming it as your own • Selectively changing words from a copied piece and claiming the content as your own You should know that I will search for suspect poems, lines, words, phrases. If you are found guilty of plagiarism, the consequences are as follows: • Write-up • 0 for the assignment • But the worst punishment of all...is my injured faith in you as a person  CHEATING IS BAD—DON’T DO IT!!!