Poetry UNIT EQ: Why does poetry exist and why do we study it?

1. PoetryUNIT EQ: Why does poetry exist and why do we study it? Standards: E2: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 E2: 5.2, 5.3, 6.5 12 April – 9 May

2. 4/12: NOVEL SECTION: Write your response to the question below… • What is poetry to you? “Poetry is…” • Describe your experience with studying poetry. • What do you like about that? • What do you dislike about that? • How would you design a poetry unit?

3. 4/13: N.S. “Poetry is all about … • The words… • The sounds… • The rhythm… • The imagery… • The poet… • The reader… • The message… • The rasa…what’s that? Rasa (Sanskrit) The feeling evoked by a work of art…the connection you feel.

4. NOVEL SECT: Copy EQs • EQ 2: How can a poet’s use of language enable you to see the world differently? [1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 1.6] • EQ 3: How do different forms of poetry help you appreciate it? [1.1, 1.7, 1.5] • EQ 4: What are the steps that you should use “to get” poetry?

5. Let’s get started…POEM 1: • You encounter this building…a message hits you: “Life without television?” Free yourself from normal writing “rules,” and compose a poetic description/poem about this scene…you may go in any direction you choose. You must have at least nine lines. You may NOT use everyday words like “is” “the” “a” “and” “be” “it”

6. NOVEL SECT: Poem 2: Begin “In my dream…” …describe the scene… USE: 5 NOUNS, 5 ACTION VERBS, 5 DESCRIPTIVE WORDS, & 5 SPECIFIC COLORS. LAST LINE: End your poem with a line that sums up what the mood/tone of this dream scene is –the meaning of it to you, the dreamer… 10 LINES! Free verse

7. POEM 3 CHOICE: 2 Diamantes OR 1 Etheree

8. The LUCKY 13 STEPS to “Getting” Poetry • TITLE • POET • READ. RINSE. REPEAT. ALOUD. • PINPOINT PUNCTUATION • Commas and dashes– mean to PAUSE • Periods and new stanzas—mean to STOP • DO NOT PAUSE at the end of each line! • WHO IS THE SPEAKER? • SPEAKING TO WHOM? • TUNE INTO TONE/MOOD

9. PICTURE EACH STANZA AND PARAPHRASE IT • FIND FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE • LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS-Rhyme? Alliteration? Assonance? Onomatopoeia? 11. RECOGNIZE RHYTHM-is there a pattern? None? 12. REFLECT ON THE REASON FOR THE POEM—what is the theme of the poem? 13. RESPOND TO THE POEM—what connection did you make? Like? Dislike? **Don’t get freaked out by unfamiliar words! Keep a dictionary close—not closed! 

10. Simile…. Castanets FLAMENCO DANCING

11. The Poppy of Georgia O’Keeffe By Janine Pommy Vega In the carmine extravagance the skirts of a Spanish dancer swirl flamenco rhythms, castanets exuberant dancer drumming her heels on a wooden floor staccato barks, deep intricate guitars the energy pulsing from the dark surrounds and enters The Poppy is wide open her petals curve like the skirts of a mountain filled with the morning sun we climb and reaching the pinnacle shout like the flower in strict discipline, in eloquent satori in the wild graced of black and red.

12. carmine = red extravagance = excessiveness flamenco = flaming castanets =rhythmic instrument exuberant t= energetic staccato = disconnected intricate =complicated In thecarmine (red) extravagance(excessiveness) the skirts of a Spanish dancer swirl flamenco (flaming) rhythms, castanets (instrument) exuberant (energetic) dancer drumming her heels on a wooden floor staccato (disconnected) barks, deep intricate(complicated) guitars the energy pulsing from the dark surrounds and enters First Stanza Vocabulary

13. pinnacle: high point discipline: control eloquent: expressive satori: awakening The poppy is wide open her petals curve like the skirts of a mountain filled with the morning sun we climb and reaching the pinnacle(highpoint) shout like the flower in strict discipline(control),in eloquent(expressive)satori(awakening) in the wild graced of black and red. Second Stanza Vocabulary

14. Questions • What comparison is the author making to the poppy? • How does the Poppy resemble a flamenco dancer? • Do you see any relation between the music and the movement in the painting of the poppy?

15. Types of Poetry: Write these in 1 column, and skip 2 lines between each • Blank verse • Free verse • Cinquain • Diamante • Elegy • Etheree • Haiku • Tanka • Lyric • Ballad & Refrain • Narrative • Ode • Prose poem • Villanelle • Sonnet

16. Stanzas = lines in poetry that are grouped together—like a paragraph.) • Octave – 8 lines • Sestet—6 lines • Quatrain—4 lines • Tercet—3 lines • Triplet (called this when they rhyme) • Couplet—2 lines

17. Rhythm (aka “meter”) • Meter is measured in “feet” • A foot is usually one stressed and one or more unstressedsyllables marked like this: ‘ = stressed syllable - = unstressed syllable CHART: (p. 646—use your text to finish these) IAMB (- ‘)=iambic -> (2 syllables) Ex: (in-sist) TROCHEE ( )-aic ANAPEST ( )-ic DACTYL ( )-ic SPONDEE ( )-aic

18. Rhythm is made by putting “feet” (syllables) together: • If you put 5 iambs together, you have meter that is called _______ __________ • So if an iamb has 2 syllables, then one line of 5 iambs would have _______ total syllables. • One foot = monometer • Two feet = dimeter • Three feet = trimeter • Four feet = tetrameter • Five feet = pentameter • Six feet = • Seven feet = • Eight feet =