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Poetry is a gift

Jane Nitschke. Poetry is a gift . Poetry Lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar . Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet. A Defense of Poetry (written 1821; published 1840 )

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Poetry is a gift

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  1. Jane Nitschke Poetry is a gift Poetry Lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet. A Defense of Poetry (written 1821; published 1840) A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet.  So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920 Poetry is life distilled.  ~Gwendolyn Brooks, Harlem Renaissance poet

  2. Jane Nitschke How do you unwrap a poem? Look at a poem Shape Punctuation Grammar Read the poem. What can you find: Metaphors? Similes? Imagery? Symbolism? Rhythm? Meter? Listen to a poem. Do you hear or feel: Rhythm? Rhyme? Fear? Sadness? Happiness? Anger?

  3. Jane Nitschke Jane Nitschke UnderstandiNG COMPARISONS SIMILE • compares two things using the words “like” or “as” • compares two things that are not similar. • Example: She was as cool as a cucumber! METAPHOR • compares two things but does NOT use “like” or “as • Can use the words “is” or “are.” • Example: LOVE STINKS!

  4. Jane Nitschke & Loretta Hunt Symbolism & Imagery Poets use images & symbols” to describe feelings and impressions. • Symbols stand for more than the words: The United States, Democracy Freedom Prosperity Old Glory • Images are descriptive “My daughter’s hugs warm my heart”

  5. Loretta Hunt A boom of African American Art, Music, and Literature in the 20’s and 30’s in Harlem, New York

  6. Harlem Renaissance & Poetry • What is the Harlem Renaissance and why is it important? • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAhkxZvFHI&feature=related • Some amazing poets: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Georgia Douglas Johnson, Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps, James Weldon Johnson Jane Nitschke

  7. Harlem WineBy Countée Cullen This is not water running here, These thick rebellious streams That hurtle flesh and bone past fear Down alleyways of dreams This is a wine that must flow on Not caring how or where So it has ways to flow upon Where song is in the air. So it can woo an artful flute With loose elastic lips Its measurements of joy compute With blithe, ecstatic hips. Loretta Hunt "imagery" = mental pictures using your 5 senses "symbolism" = the meanings those images have beyond their literal elements. Both are used to express emotions. The wine symbolizes the blood of African Americans. Images of flowing water, flesh, music…

  8. The Pattern: Each line alternates iambic tetrameter with iambic trimeter. • The Exception: “This is a wine that must flow on” (line 5) “flow on” is a spondee The Question: Why did Cullen choose to emphasize the words in line 5? Janice Teel Scanning “Harlem Wine”

  9. This is not water running here, (A) These thick rebellious streams (B) That hurtle flesh and bone past fear (A) Down alleyways of dreams (B) This is a wine that must flow on (C) Not caring how or where (D) So it has ways to flow upon (C) Where song is in the air. (D) So it can woo an artful flute (E) With loose elastic lips (F) Its measurements of joy compute (E) With blithe, ecstatic hips. (F) Question: If the poem were to continue, can you predict the rhyme scheme of the next stanza? Janice Teel The Rhyme Scheme

  10. Perfect RhymesSight Rhymes here/fear flute/compute streams/dreams where/air Internal Rhymes lips/hips flow/how (also sight) woo/loose (also slant) This/is Janice Teel Types of Rhyme

  11. Enjambment occurs when a sentence continues from one line to the next. Example: That hurtle flesh and bone past fear Down alleyways of dreams...(lines 3 -4) Questions: How does enjambment emphasize words and ideas? How many sentences do you see? Janice Teel Enjambment

  12. DREAM BOOGIEBy Langston Hughes Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and Beating out a -- You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a -- What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h! Daddy could symbolize the white patron that African Americans relied on to pursue their art. An example of musical Imagery used to express emotion of the characters Loretta Hunt

  13. Loretta Hunt HarlemBy Langston Hughes (sometimes referred to as “Dream Deferred”) 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? Simile - likens the original dream to a round, juicy, green, fresh grape –once neglected it dries up Imagery of touch; a wound that is not healing symbolizes growing resentment Imagery of taste, sight, decay and waste Metaphor: compares the dream to something that blows up.

  14. Jane Nitschke Poetry is a gift Examine the bright wrapping paper, Carefully unwrap the tissue paper inside Share the gift of your poetry

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