Poetry

1. Poetry

2. Poetry • The definition for poetry is the art of expressing ones thoughts in verse. • Music lyrics • Commercials • Express strong emotions (love poem)

3. Elements of Poetry • Stanza: How lines are grouped in a poem. • 2 lines - couplet3 lines - triplet • Rhyme: how the word sounds agree. • I feel the weight of the world on my shoulderAs I'm gettin' older, y'all, people gets colder • Rhythm: What type of beat or meter does the poem have

4. Elements of Poetry • Rhyme Scheme: The pattern of rhyme in a poem. Assign each line in the poem a letter. The first line gets an “A”. If the second line rhymes, it gets an “A”. If not, a “B”. Continue until the end of the poem • Beneath the apple blossoms AI go a wintry way, B For love that smiled in April CIs false to me in May. B

5. When April bends above meAnd finds me fast asleepDust need not keep the secretA live heart died to keep. • When April tells the thrushes,The meadow-larks will know,And pipe the three words lightlyTo all the winds that blow. • Above his roof the swallows,In notes like far-blown rain,Will tell the little sparrowBeside his window-pane. • O sparrow, little sparrow,When I am fast asleep,Then tell my love the secretThat I have died to keep.

6. Elements of Poetry • Alliteration: A poetic device that repeats the same beginning sound for effect. • The sun sizzled the swimmers' skin. • The wild wind whistled and wailed. • The rapidly rising river rushed rampantly. • Little leaping lizards lay lazily on a log.

7. Elements of Poetry • Your Turn: Write a sample of alliteration using the first letter in your first or last name to construct an alliterative sentence. • Mr. Findlay fought fifty frogs furiously for forty days.

8. Elements of Poetry • Assonance: Repetition of internal vowel sounds of words close together. • I made my way to the lake. • Consonance: Repetition of internal or ending consonant sounds of words close together. • I dropped the locket in the slick, thick mud.

9. Elements of Poetry • Similes and Metaphors • Simile: comparing unlike things using like or as. • The moon looked like a block of cheese. • Metaphor: comparing unlike things using a form of the verb to be. • The moon is a crystal angel.

10. Elements of Poetry • Onomatopoeia: words that imitate natural sounds. • The locomotive chugged down the rickety track. • The arrow whistled in the still air. • The soldiers snapped to attention.

11. Elements of Poetry • Personification: Figure of speech that gives human or animal qualities to an object or idea. • The wind howled and moaned through the valley. • Hyperbole: An exaggerated statement used to heighten effect and emphasize a point. • She’s said so on several million occasions.

12. How to Read Poetry • Read it out loud • Read it more than once • Look for figurative language (similes, metaphors, etc.) • Look up unfamiliar words • Pay attention to punctuation • Read to enjoy it

13. Poetry • Read The Road Not Taken on page 478 of the purple literature book and answer the following: • How many stanzas are there? • Does the poem contain rhyme and rhythm? • What is the mood of the poem? • Which line or lines of the poem best express its theme or meaning?

14. Bell Work • Write a sentence using Onomatopoeia. • Write a sentence using Personification. • Write a sentence using Hyperbole.

15. Types of Poetry • Ballad: A poem that tells a story and is sometimes like a song. • Sonnet: A poem that has 14 lines and definite meter and rhyme. • Limerick: a humorous, nonsense verse consisting of a triplet and couplet, which results in the person creating a five line poem.

16. Ballad • Jonny was a schoolboy, when he heard his first Beatles song."Love Me Do" I think it was, and from there it didn't take him long.Got himself a guitar, used to play it every night,Now he's in a rock 'n' roll outfit, and everything's all right.Don't you know...Jonny told his mama, "Hey Mama, I'm goin away,"Gonna hit the big time, gona be a big star some day."Mama came to the door, with a teardrop in her eye,Jonny said: "Don't cry, Mama," smiled and waved good-bye.Don't you know...Don't you know that you are a Shooting Star?Don't you know? Don't you know?Don't you know that you are a Shooting Star,And all the world will love you just as long, as long as you are.Jonny made a record, went straight up to Number One,Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song.Watching the world go by, as it brightly goes so fast,Jonny looked around him and said: "Well, I made the big time at last."Don't you know? Don't you know?Don't you know that you are a Shooting Star?Don't you know? Don't you know?Don't you know that you are a Shooting Star,And all the world will love you just as long, as long as you areA Shooting Star?Jonny died one night, died in his bed,Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets by his head.Jonny's life passed him by like a warm Summer day,If you listen to the wind, you can still hear him play

17. Sonnet Into My Own One of my wishes is that those dark trees, So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze, Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom, But stretched away unto the edge of doom. I should not be withheld but that some day Into their vastness I should steal away, Fearless of ever finding open land, Or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand. I do not see why I should e'er turn back, Or those should not set forth upon my track To overtake me, who should miss me here And long to know if still I held them dear. They would not find me changed from him they knew-- Only more sure of all I thought was true.

18. Limerick • There once was princess named Meg who accidentally broke her leg. She slipped on the ice Not once, but twice Take no pity on her, beg

19. Types of Poetry • Haiku: Is usually about nature. A Haiku is composed of three lines totaling seventeen syllables.  Line 1:  5 syllables, Line 2:  7 syllables, Line 3:  5 syllables. • Acrostic: Acrostic poems differ from other poetry in that the first letter of each line spells a word which can be read vertically.  The rhyme scheme and number of lines may vary in acrostic poems because it is more of a descriptive poem in which one describes the word being spelled. • Free Verse: Poetry that does not have meter or rhyme.

20. Haiku • Water slaps the shore Against the white crystal sand Under a hot sun

21. Acrostic • So needed in the world Can be rewarding Happy setting Oh, the places you'll go with this Overwhelming at times, but rewarding Loves people

22. Free Verse 'The Red Wheelbarrow‘ so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens. -- William Carlos Williams

23. Poetry • Poetry: Write an example of each of the following types. • Haiku • Acrostic • Limerick • Sonnet • Free Verse • Poems due Friday Feb. 26