Poetry Project

1. Poetry Project Krystal Goslee

2. The Poet • He was born December 24, 1950 in Hawthorne, CA • He real name is Michael Dana Gioia • He earned his Bachelor of Arts from Stanford university and a masters from Harvard University • He won the Frederic Bock Award for poetry • He is a chair men of NEA • He has also written two operas that translate of Italian German and Latin • He has also won the American Book Award • He tends to write poems about life problems and things people desire

3. Pity the Beautiful By: Dana Gioia

4. Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine. 20 lines 5 stanzas

5. The speaker The speaker in this poem is trying to get readers to understand that there are different types of people and that know one has feeling or feels sorry for anyone else because of the way they feel about themselves and their own self conscious.

6. Poetic Terms Include: Rhyme Repetition Rhythm Allusion

7. A B C B D E F E G H I H J K L K M N O N This poem contains end rhyme making it a lyric poem which expresses thoughts and emotions. Rhyme is the repetition of vowel sounds and sounds that follow it in words that are close together in poems. Ex. Dishes and wishes, Apollos and follows, ten and men , divine and shine. Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine. Rhyme

8. Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the prettyboys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity thefaded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine. Repetition Repetition helps get a point across by repeating words and adding emphasis to the tone of the poem. This poem repeats "Pity the”. Repetition adds emphasis to pity to make it stand out to people that people shouldn’t always look at each other by what they have or how they look like but how their personality is.

9. Rhythm Rhythm adds a musical quality based on repetition, you hear a beat as you read the poem. The same way a song has an instrumental is how a poem has rhythm to carry on the poem as you are describing it.

10. Allusion Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Allusion is an expression designed to call something to mind without a direct reference. Adonis was know to be a were handsome person who was wanted by many people. Including the goddess Aphrodite in Greek mythology. A “paunchy Adonis” would be a obese Adonis who would not be know for beauty of popularity.

11. Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine. Purpose The purpose of “ Pity the Beautiful” is to point out that people shouldn’t always look at each other by what they have or how they look like but how their personality is. The poem clearly states why don’t we pity the people who are less fortunate and why we don’t feel bad for people who are more fortunate than the average person.

12. Pity the beautiful, the dolls, and the dishes, the babes with big daddies granting their wishes. Pity the pretty boys, the hunks, and Apollos, the golden lads whom success always follows. The hotties, the knock-outs, the tens out of ten, the drop-dead gorgeous, the great leading men. Pity the faded, the bloated, the blowsy, the paunchy Adonis whose luck’s gone lousy. Pity the gods, no longer divine. Pity the night the stars lose their shine Purpose The speaker says we should fell bad of the beautiful women and handsome men that everyone wants because they may have everything they want but not what they need. They are the ones who get everything handed to them and work for nothing. At the end of the poem the speaker says we should fell sorry for those who are unattractive and not desirable because they are often the ones who are alone and judged by other people .

13. Documentation http://www.danagioia.net/ camphalfblood.wikia.com eofdreams.com http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Adonis