Poetry

1. Poetry What is poetry?, you say  As you fix my eyes with yours of blue.  What is poetry! .... You  ask me that?  Poetry... It is you!  Gustavo Adolfo Becquer “Original combination of words, distinctive sound, and emotional impact…"

2. What is poetry? • From the Greek word for making or creating • Literature in metrical (verse) form • Literary art • Carefully chosen words showing a great depth of meaning • A short piece of imaginative writing

3. What is poetry? • “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” - William Wordsworth • “If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson • “Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.” – Dylan Thomas

4. Form • the way a poem looks or its arrangement on the page. • Line – a group of words arranged in a row • Stanza – a grouped set of lines in a poem • concrete poetry – arrangement of words is critical to the poem river falling crashing thundering rushing into quiet pools • Free verse – open form with no fixed pattern

5. Rhyme • words that end with the same sound heart / start • Internal rhyme: when the rhyme occurs within a line • End rhyme: when the rhyme happens at the end of two lines

6. Rhyme • slant rhyme: sounds that are similar but not exactly the same heart / star or heart / dark • blank verse: no rhyme heart / apple

7. Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich – shelsilverstein A hippo sandwich is easy to make. AAll you do is simply take AOne slice of bread, BOne slice of cake, ASome mayonnaise, COne onion ring, DOne hippopotamus, EOne piece of string, DA dash of pepper-- FThat ought to do it. GAnd now comes the problem... HBiting into it! G

8. Symbolism • Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities • When an object stands for something else • Example: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

9. Repetition • repeating of sounds, words, phrases or whole lines of a poem (refrains)

10. Can you see the pride in the panther – tupacshakur Can You See the Pride In the Panther As he grows in splendor and grace Toppling obstacles placed in the way, of the progression of his race. Can You See the Pride In the Pantheras she nurtures her young all alone The seed must grow regardlessof the fact that it is planted in stone. Can You See the Pride In the Panthers as they unify as one. The flower blooms with brilliance, and outshines the rays of the sun.

11. alliteration • Repetition of beginning consonant sounds Nature's first green is goldHer hardest hue to hold.Her early leaf's a flower;But only so an hour.Then leaf subsides to leaf.So Eden sank to grief,So dawn goes down to day.Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost – Nothing gold can stay

12. assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds Example: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain… - The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

13. onomatopoeia Words that imitate sounds Crash WHOOSH boom bang CLICKmeow QUACK

14. IMAGERY • word pictures – when a reader can easily visualize what they are reading about • often appeals to the 5 senses

15. From “Cold Front” – Randolph Nesbitt you know when you were diggingditches with your handsyour hands blistered sunsyour lips camels with two humpsdid you ever imagine the parade would end ina bonfire of stupidity ……how could youlaughing your tongueinto your lungsa sea slug on theocean floorunable to scream throughfathoms and currentshow could youyour mind adark cloudno place to hide from the rain of soldier’s bodies

16. Figurative language • Words and phrases that help a reader picture ordinary things in new ways • Simile: comparison using “like” or “as” Life is like a box of chocolates. His eyes were as angry as a storm. • Metaphor: comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as” Life is a box of chocolates. His eyes were an angry storm.

17. A dream deferred – langstonhughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

18. Figurative language • Extended metaphor: a sustained comparison developed throughout a piece of writing. • Personification: giving a non human object human qualities The rain danced on the roof and knocked on the windows. The frigid air crept in under the door and attacked me as I walked by.

19. Figurative language • Hyperbole – an exaggeration used to create strong feelings or a strong impression; not meant to be taken literally • Example: In a house the size of a postage stamplived a man as big as a barge.His mouth could drink the entire riverYou could say it was rather largeFor dinner he would eat a trillion beansAnd a silo full of grain,Washed it down with a tanker of milkAs if he were a drain.

20. From love story – taylor swift So I sneak out to the garden to see youWe keep quiet cause we're dead if they knowSo close your eyesEscape this town for a little whileCause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letterAnd my daddy said stay away from JulietBut you were everything to meI was begging you please don't go and I said:Romeo take me somewhere we can be aloneI'll be waiting all there's left to do is runYou'll be the prince and I'll be the princessIt's a love story baby just say yes

21. Theme • The message or meaning of a poem • What does the poet want you to take from the poem? • Why did he/she write it?