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What is Poetry?

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What is Poetry?

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  1. r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r who a)sw(eloo)k upnowgath PPEGORHRASS eringint(o- aThe):l eA !p: S a (r rIvInG .gRrEaPsPhOs) to rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly ,grasshopper; What is Poetry? so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

  2. Essential Questions What is poetry? How is poetry different from prose? How do authors use stylistic devices to affect the emotions of their readers? How does the performance of poetry affect its meaning? How can poetry be used as a tool for social justice?

  3. What is Poetry? Some Responses Webster’s Dictionary: “Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.” AudreLorde: “The difference between poetry and rhetoric / is being / ready to kill / yourself / instead of your children.”

  4. “Because Everyone Wants to Know” Prose is a starting pitcher with a game plan. He pitches to each batter differently each time up. His game is full of little dramas: impending catastrophe, escape, tension building, subsiding, building again Poetry is a one-inning reliever-- a fireballer, a screwballer, a pitcher with a slider that batters flick their bats at as it breaks a foot outside in the dirt Prose is a boxer: jabbing, moving, slipping, stinging, wearing his opponent down. Poetry is a knockout punch; the big left hook that is carried on all the highlight films Prose is a song; poetry is a guitar lick every kid can yow-yow with his mouth Prose is the Mona Lisa; poetry is the smile.

  5. What do these have in common?

  6. Organizing Key Terms • Types of Poems • Sonnet • Lyric • Ballad • Elegy • Epic • Idyll • Pastoral • Figurative Language • Alliteration • Assonance • Metaphor • Simile • Conceit • Hyperbole • Personification • Metonymy • Onomatopoeia • Simile • Synecdoche • Allusion • Imagery • Parts of a Poem • Verse (Free and Blank) • Stanza • Caesura • Couplet • Foot • Meter • Refrain • Stress

  7. Key Terms Alliteration: the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words Allusion: a reference to a famous person, thing, or work Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds Ballad: a poem that tells a story (such a folk tale or legend), often with a refrain Caesura: a natural pause or break in a line of poetry Conceit: a poetic image or metaphor that compares one thing to another that seems unlikely Couplet: a pair of lines of the same length and that usually rhyme

  8. Key Terms Elegy: a poem written for the death of a person Enjambment: the continuation of a sentence or idea across more than one line of poetry Epic: a long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure Foot: two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhyme in a poem Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis Idyll: a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene

  9. Key Terms Imagery: the use of language appealing to the five senses Lyric: a poem that expresses the thoughts or feelings of the poet Metaphor: a comparison of two things when one is said to be the other Meter: the arrangement of lines according to the number of syllables and rhythm Metonymy: the substitution of one word for another closely associated word Onomatopoeia: words used to imitate sounds Pastoral: a poem that depicts rural life

  10. Key Terms Personification: giving human traits to non-human objects or things Refrain: a line or phrase repeated throughout the poem Simile: comparison of two things using “like” or “as” Sonnet: a 14-line lyric poem Stanza: two or more lines organized to form the divisions of a poem Stress: prominence or emphasis given to certain syllables

  11. Key Terms Synecdoche: a part used to substitute for the whole, or the whole is used to mean the part Verse: a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose) Free Verse: poetry with unrhymed lines or rhymed lines with no set meter Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter

  12. Review Literal Meaning: Figurative Meaning:

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