Introduction

1. Introduction ENGLISH POETRY

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4. Emily Dickinson • Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet • Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.

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6. Robert Forst • Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech • His work frequently employed settings from rural life in New England in the early twentieth century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes. A popular and often-quoted poet, Frost was honored frequently during his lifetime, receiving four Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry.

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8. John Keats JOHN KEATS was born in London, October 29, 1795, and he died of consumption, February 23, 1821, in Rome. He was educated at Enfield. Choosing medicine as a profession, he was apprenticed, at the age of fifteen, to a surgeon at Edmonton. Although he spent most of his time in literary study, yet he completed his apprenticeship creditably and repaired to London to complete his work in the hospital

9. What is Poetry? A short piece of imaginative writing? A personal nature and laid out in lines?

10. What is poetry? Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aiming at a definite and concrete goal, generally suppresses everything inessential to its purpose; poetry, existing only to exhibit itself as an aesthetic object, aims only at completeness and perfection of form.Richard Harter Fogle

11. What is poetry? Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.... A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually—that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too— but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.Muriel Rukeyser

12. What is poetry? • Prose talks and poetry sings.Franz Grillparzer • You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.Mario Cuomo

13. What is poetry? • 'If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.'Emily Dickenson • I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat.'A. E. Housman

14. Poetry? • It is an art form. • It is something that can not be judged by its cover and can not be criticized to the point where it just "sucks." • Poetry is about expression. • Poetry expresses the way we feel about a certain subject through imagery and other senses. • It helps us deal with our daily life, be it good or bad.

15. Poetry is old? Poetry uses language to more and say it more intensely than the ordinary language of stories and drama (perrine, h.547) Poets create specific emotional effects through language’s meanings, sounds, and rhythme, using these devices to focus our senses and our perception of life.

16. Poetry is different??? • Its compression of thought • Its conventions of meter and rhythm • Its reliance on the line as a formal unit • Its emphasis on sound Poetry love words and the sounds of language. The focus is on expressing emotional content or express a thematic statement or message

17. A kind of multidimensional language Imagery simile Symbol methaphor Rhythm Sound repetition Rhyme Pattern Connotation

18. Poetry: is the beautiful manipulation of language for the pleasure of our ears and senses. It is a mystery to those of us who appreciate it. It can be fun, serious, exhilarating and penetrating.

19. TYPES OF POETRY

20. LYRIC • A short poem • Usually written in first person point of view • Expresses an emotion or an idea or describes a scene • Do not tell a story and are often musical

21. HAIKU A Japanese poem written in three lines Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables An old silent pond . . . A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again.

22. CONCRETE POEMS • In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem. Poetry Is like Flames, Which are Swift and elusive Dodging realization Sparks, like words on the Paper, leap and dance in the Flickering firelight. The fiery Tongues, formless and shifting Shapes, tease the imiagination. Yet for those who see, Through their mind’s Eye, they burn Up the page.

23. CINQUAIN A five line poem containing 22 syllables Two Syllables Four Syllables Six Syllables Eight Syllables Two Syllables How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs Autumnal, evanescent, wan The moon.

24. Diamonte poems • Poem that begins with one word and ends with its opposite. • When completed, it will look like a diamond (diamonte = diamond)

25. Diamonte pattern • Line 1 = Word/opposite of line 7 • Line 2 = Description of line one (generally 2 words) • Line 3 = Action that line one does (generally 3 words) • Line 4 = Two words (usually nouns) about line 1 and two words (usually nouns about line 7 • Line 5 = Action that line 7 does (generally 3 words) • Line 6 = Description of line 7 (usually 2 words) • Line 7 = Word/opposite of line 1

26. Diamonte examples LoveBright, PassionateCharming, Drifting, GrowingCherish, Infatuation,Antipathy, UncaringAnimosity, Falling, DeadDark, DisgustHate • Try to make sure that words and descriptions about line 7/line 1 are parallel

27. Diamonte examples Man Brilliant, perfect Working, learning, earning Beer, car,mirror, make-up Speaking, speaking, speaking Furious, exhausted Woman

28. Man Stupid, rude Sleeping, eating, belchingTrousers, underpants,knickers, skirts Working, sporting Clever, beautiful Woman

29. How to Write a Clerihew • Clerihews are four lines long • The first two lines rhyme together (a) • The last two lines rhyme together (b) • Must be funny • The first line usually names a person and the second line usually ends with something that rhymes with that person

30. Clerihew examples My funny shop teacher Mr. Carr Dropped on his head a heavy crow bar. He began to curse and yell Telling the hammer to go straight to hell.

31. Clerihew examples My band teacher Mr. Lockhart is kind of nutty I wish I didn't have him as a buddy. He's goofy and tells some stupid jokes; I wonder where he'll go if he croaks.

32. SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme. The poem is written in three quatrains and ends with a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou 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. Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometimes declines, By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed. But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

33. NARRATIVE POEMS • A poem that tells a story. • Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot. Examples of Narrative Poems “The Raven” “The Highwayman” “Casey at the Bat” “The Walrus and the Carpenter”

34. FREE VERSE POETRY • Unlike metered poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Does NOT have rhyme. • Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you. • A more modern type of poetry.

35. BLANK VERSE POETRY • Written in lines of iambic pentameter, but does NOT use end rhyme. from Julius Ceasar Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

36. Poetry Analysis Using TPCASTT

37. Getting Started… • This is a process to help you organize your analysis of poetry. • You have a note sheet that looks like this…

38. Analysis Using This Sheet

39. T is for TITLE • Analyze the title first. • What do you predict this poem will be about? • Write down your predictions. • We will reflect on the title again after we have read the poem. • The next step is often omitted, but it is the most important!!!!

40. READTHEPOEM!!!!

41. P is for PARAPHRASE • Paraphrasing is putting something in your own words. • After reading the poem, rewrite it in your own words. • This may be three sentences or a page, depending on the particular poem.

42. C is for CONNOTATION • Analyze the figures of speech and sound effects of the poem. • These are the poetry vocabulary we have already studied. • These elements add to the meaning. apostrophe ASSONANCE alliteration RHYME diction personification onomatopoeia simile implied metaphor meter HYPERBOLE direct metaphor

43. A is for ATTITUDE • Tone is the attitude of the speaker toward the subject of the poem.

44. S is for SHIFT • If there is a change in… • Time • Tone • Speaker This should always be noted as this will also affect the meaning.

45. T is for TITLE (again) • At this time, you should reconsider the title. • Were you right in your predictions? • What other meanings might the title have in light of your analysis? • Next, the biggie….

46. T is for THEME • As you already know, theme is the general insight into life conveyed by the author through his/her work. • It does not make a judgment. example: “Don’t do drugs” is not a theme. • It merely states something that is true to life and the human condition.

47. How do I find theTHEME? • Look at the other parts of TPCASTT. • What insight are all of these working together to convey? • What is the poet trying to say about life?

48. Mirror –Sylvia Plath I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.Whatever I see I swallow immediatelyJust as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel, only truthful ‚The eye of a little god, four-cornered.Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall.It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so longI think it is part of my heart. But it flickers.Faces and darkness separate us over and over. Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,Searching my reaches for what she really is.Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.I am important to her. She comes and goes.Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old womanRises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.

49. Ending - Gavin Ewart The love we thought would never stopnow cools like a congealing chop.The kisses that were hot as curryare bird-pecks taken in a hurry.The hands that held electric chargesnow lie inert as four moored barges.The feet that ran to meet a dateare running slow and running late.The eyes that shone and seldom shutare victims of a power cut.The parts that then transmitted joyare now reserved and cold and coy.Romance, expected once to stay,has left a note saying Gone Away.