POETRY

1. POETRY What do you think it is? Turn and talk with your table!

2. Definition. • po·et·rynoun\ˈpō-ə-trē \ • writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm

3. Feeling like this?

4. It’s ok. In English… • Poetry is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form.

5. 2 week plan • Explore poems, get personal with poets, dabble in writing, conquer the world,etc. • The Nitty Gritty: We will learn about six specific types of poems. The unit test will cover these poems and all that they entail.

6. 2 products • Poetry Packet • Original poetry book • AND, we will conclude the unit with a COFFEE HOUSE!

7. Free Verse • Very conversational- sounds like someone is talking with you • Does NOT have rhyme • Does NOT have any specific number of lines or stanzas

8. Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on.

9. VOCAB. PIT STOP • LINE: a group of words together on one line of the poem • STANZA: a group of lines arranged together RHYME: words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. Ex: LAMP, STAMP

10. Traditional form of Japanese poetry Usually about Nature 3 lines Five syllables Seven syllables Five syllables Haiku Nature Animals Seasons

11. Examples Urban Haiku Freeway overpass-- Blossoms in graffiti on Fog-wrapped June mornings -Michael R. Collings Christmas Snow On new fallen snow Footsteps tromping with presents Big celebration - Max Coryell stories in flight Haiku Traffic Signs

12. VOCAB. PIT STOP • IMAGERY: the use of vivid description, usually rich in sensory words, to create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind • ALLITERATION: consonant sounds repeated at the beginning of words

13. Vocab. Pit stop • ONOMATOPOEIA: words that imitate the sound they are naming • Ex. Buzz (like a bee)

14. LIMERICK • Often contain hyperboles, onomatopoeias, alliteration, internal rhyme, etc. • Meant to be funny • Last line is meant to be the “punch” line • 5 lines • Lines 1, 2, and 5 have 7-10 syllables • Lines 3 and 4 have 5-7 syllables • Rhyme scheme • a a b b a

15. Vocab. Pit stop • RHYME SCHEME: the pattern of rhyme. Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. • HYPERBOLE: exaggeration often used for emphasis

16. Vocab. Pit stop • INTERNAL RHYME occurs when a word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line • Once upon a midnight dreary, whileI pondered weak and weary. • From “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

17. Vocab. Pit stop • END RHYME occurs when the word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line Hector the Collector Collected bits of string. Collected dolls with broken heads And rusty bells that would not ring.

18. Example- what is the rhyme scheme? • There was a Young Lady whose chin, • Resembled the point of a pin; • So she had it made sharp, • And purchased a harp, • And played several tunes with her chin. • -Edward Lear

19. More Examples by Edward lear • There once was a man from Nantucket • Who kept all his cash in a • But his daughter, named Nan, • Ran away with a • And as for the bucket, Nantucket. • There was an Old Man with a beard, • Who said, “It is just as I feared! • Two Owls and a Hen, • Four Larks and a Wren, • Have all built their nests in my beard!”

20. Your Turn! • Finish the limerick- • There once was a young man called Pete… • Or • There once was a girl from Peru…

21. SONNETS!

22. Special Features • Similes, metaphors, and personification are often used • 14 lines • Written in iambic pentameter • 3 different rhyme schemes: • Shakespearean • Italian (Petrarchan) • Spenserian

23. Shakespearean vs. Italian sonnets Shakespearean (English) Italian (Petrarchan) • ababcdcdefefgg • 3 quatrains • 1 couplet • abbaabbacdecde • 1 octave • 1 sestet * Let’s Practice!

24. Vocab. Pit stop • COUPLET: a two line stanza • QUATRAIN: a four line stanza • SESTET: a six line stanza • OCTAVE: an eight line stanza

25. Iambic Pentameter • 10 syllables per line • Follows this pattern: • Unstressed syllable, stressed syllable

26. Check it out! • From Shakespeare’s sonnet number 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Though art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

27. Guys vs. Girls Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; Whose misadventur’d piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, And the continuance of their parents’ rage, Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours’ traffick of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.