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Introduction to Poetry. Combs Middle School 8 th Grade. What is poetry?. Poetry is language that says more than ordinary language and usually says it with fewer, but more c o l o r f u l words.
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Introduction to Poetry Combs Middle School 8th Grade
What is poetry? • Poetry is language that says more than ordinary language and usually says it with fewer, but more colorful words. • Poems are often filled with figurative language – figurative language says one thing, but means another. • Poetry has a musical quality created by the use of rhythm and rhyme. • Some poems tell a story. • Some famous poets you may have heard of are… eeCummings, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman
Alliteration • Occurs when a series of words in a row (or close to a row) have the same first consonant sound. • Example: Madonna’s microphone makes much music.
Assonance • The repetition of vowel sounds in nearby words. It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood. • Example: Pink Floyd’s “Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground”
Free Verse • A form of poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern. • Example: Song of Myself by Walt Whitman • I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Haiku • An unrhymed verse form of Japanese origin having three lines containing usually five, seven, and five syllables respectively. • Example: Green and speckled legs, Hop on logs and lily pads Splash in cool water.
Onomatopoeia • The use of words (such as hiss or murmur) that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to. • Example: Snap! Crackle! Pop! The rice krispies sounded delicious as I poured in the milk.
Rhyme • Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse. • Example: I taught my cat to clean my room, to use a bucket, brush and broom, to dust my books and picture frames, and pick up all my toys and games. He puts my pants and shirts away, and makes my bed, and I should say it seems to me it's only fair he puts away my underwear. In fact, I think he's got it made. I'm not too happy with our trade. He may pick up my shoes and socks, but I clean out his litterbox. --Kenn Nesbitt
Rhythm • Recurring movement of sound or speech. • Example: An example of rhythm is the rising and falling of someone's voice. An example of rhythm is someone dancing in time with music.
Repetition • Act of doing or saying something over and over and over again. • Example: I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. from "I'm nobody! Who are You?" by Emily Dickinson
Denotation • Refers to the literal meaning of a word, the "dictionary definition.“ • Example: If you look up the word snake in a dictionary, you will discover that one of its denotative meanings is "any of numerous scaly, legless, sometimes venomous reptiles having a long, tapering, cylindrical body and found in most tropical and temperate regions."
Connotation • Refers to the associations that are connected to a certain word or the emotional suggestions related to that word. The connotative meanings of a word exist together withthe denotative meanings. • Example: The connotations for the word snake could include evil or danger.
