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Poetry: Tone & Form

This presentation discusses how poets create tone through diction, participants and situations, seriousness or humor, irony, metaphors and similes, understatement and overstatement, speaker's background, and poetic form. It also examines closed-form and open-form poetry and provides examples for analysis.

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Poetry: Tone & Form

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  1. Poetry: Tone & Form ENC 1102 Alling

  2. All slides contain info. from Roberts & Zweig’s Literature: An Introduction to Reading & Writing “Tone: The creation of attitude in poetry”&“Form: The Shape of Poems”

  3. How does a poet create tone? Diction—denotation & connotation

  4. How does a poet create tone? Participants & situations

  5. How does a poet create tone? Seriousness or humor

  6. How does a poet create tone? Irony (making a point by emphasizing a discrepancy or opposite)

  7. How does a poet create tone? Metaphors & similes

  8. How does a poet create tone? Understatement, overstatement (hyperbole), & other figures of speech

  9. How does a poet create tone? Speaker—self-awareness, background, relationship to listeners/readers

  10. How does a poet create tone? Form—Length, repetition, stanza choices, etc.

  11. How does a poet create tone? Level of formality—graceful words, slang, rhymes, etc.

  12. How does a poet create tone? By using all devices to create a Consistent intention

  13. If poet controls his/her tone: may gain reader’s agreement, at least for a time; may stimulate, enrich, & inspire readers

  14. What is poetic form? shape, structure, pattern, or lack thereof

  15. Two major forms of poetry Closed-formopen-form

  16. What is closed-form poetry? clearly-recognizable shape, structures, or patterns; uses traditional conventions & restrictions

  17. Some types of closed-form poems Sonnetlyricodeelegyballadhymnalhaikuvillanelletriolet

  18. What is open-form poetry? Free from restrictions of closed form, such as meter or rhyme

  19. What is open-form poetry? embraces spoken rhythms; topic itself shapes # of lines, line lengths, physical appearance on page (e.g. varying line lengths w/ importance of ideas, creating pauses, relying on progression of images, etc.)

  20. Some types of open-form poems Free verse (new, original ways to arrange words & lines)Visual poetryprose poems

  21. Recognizing Tone & Form You read & analyze Example poems

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