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Poetry

Poetry. December 2010. Definition : the art made up of poems, texts with charged, compressed language Acute perceptions Vivid impressions Compressed language Musically rhythmic use of language Heightened sense of attentiveness. Poetry. Prose poem Free verse poem Metrical verse poem.

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry December 2010

  2. Definition: the art made up of poems, texts with charged, compressed language Acute perceptions Vivid impressions Compressed language Musically rhythmic use of language Heightened sense of attentiveness Poetry

  3. Prose poem Free verse poem Metrical verse poem Modes of Poetry

  4. Maintains poetic quality Uses fragmentation, compression, repetition and rhyme; not written in discrete lines Can range in length from a few lines to several pages Heightened use of intense, condensed language and metaphors Example – Just Listen by Peter Johnson Prose Poem

  5. T.S. Eliot wrote, “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.” Lines are not measured in anyway, yet are structured according to repetition and variation of words, phrases, and structure Short-lined free verse Long-lined free verse Variable-length free verse Spatial or typographical arrangement Free Verse Poem

  6. Short-lined Range between one syllable and several words An inch or two of type Between one and three stresses Example – Giraffe by Stanley Plumly Free Verse Poem

  7. Long-lined Lines stretch between left and right margins More often end-stopped than enjambed Enjambment: the use of a line whose sense and rhythmic movement continues to the next line Example – A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman and i carry your heart by e.e. cummings Free Verse Poem

  8. Variable-length Mixes short lines with medium-length and long lines Regular irregularity Based on average line that is medium in length, shortening or lengthening for rhythmic or expressive purposes Most common form of free-verse Example – The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson Free Verse Poem

  9. Spatial/typographical Uses the page as a kind of canvas for the spatial arrangement of words, phrases and lines which can be scattered widely or blocked together Example – In Just by e.e. cummings Free Verse Poem

  10. Lines measured by a regular count of syllables, accents or both, such as a sonnet Metrical Verse Poem

  11. A poem of fourteen lines, usually rhymed, usually written in iambic pentameter; a song usurped by ideas Metrical Verse Poem - Sonnet

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