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Poetic Styles

Poetic Styles. Descriptive Poetry Notable for its vividness. Uses descriptions that appeal to the senses -Engages the imagination Acquainted with the Night (Frost) Birches (Frost). Poetic Styles Con`t. Narrative Poetry Tells a story

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Poetic Styles

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  1. Poetic Styles • Descriptive Poetry • Notable for its vividness. • Uses descriptions that appeal to the senses • -Engages the imagination Acquainted with the Night (Frost) Birches (Frost)

  2. Poetic Styles Con`t • Narrative Poetry • Tells a story • -Concerned with characters, setting and conflict On the way to the Mission The Zax –Identify the: plot, setting, characters, theme

  3. Poetic Styles Con`t • Reflective Poetry • Searches for deep truths and poses the questions of existence. • Contemplates life & what it means to be human • -Eg. Who am I? Is there an ultimate purpose to life? What is the nature of happiness? Letter to a Future Generation- Journal Response Do you think ignorance of past atrocities, or knowledge of them is a better, more effective way to prevent these mistakes from being repeated?

  4. Structure of Poetry • Rhyme Schemes • are described USING LETTERS that correspond to sets of rhymes. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; A All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, B Couldn’t put Humpty together again. B • The Rhyme Scheme for this poem is: A,A,B,B

  5. Structure of Poetry • Meter – a.k.a. rhythm • The pattern of beats or stresses • Can be specific and consistent • Iambic Pentameter • Is a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet in a row. • The MOST COMMON meter in English poetry

  6. Types of Poetry • Sonnet • A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter • Its subject is traditionally that of love. • 2 Kinds: • Petrarchan • Italian, octave (8 lines) & sestet (6 lines) • Rhyme scheme is ababcdcd then cdecde • Shakesperian • No octave/sestet structure • Rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg

  7. Shakesperian Sonnet Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? 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. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st 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.

  8. Types of Poetry Con`t • Villanelle • Poem of 19 lines • Has 5 stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines • 1st line of 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 2nd and 4th stanzas • 3rd line of the 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 3rd and 5th stanzas • These 2 lines are the last 2 lines of the poem • Rhyme scheme is aba

  9. Villanelles • Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night • By Dylan Thomas • Reading Scheme • By Wendy Cope

  10. Types of Poetry Con`t • Ballad • A song-like poem that tells a story (Narrative) • Four to Six line stanzas • Regular rhythm and rhyme schemes • “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde

  11. Types of Poetry Con`t • Concrete Poem • A Poem whose form represents its subject or theme. (Soda Pop)

  12. Types of Poetry Con’t • Elegy • A poem whose purpose is to express grief or sorrow for the dead. Often read at funerals VS. • Eulogy (Not poetry usually) • A plain language speech whose purpose is to express sorrow or grief for the dead. Often read at funerals.

  13. Elegies • Child Burial by Paula Meehan • Elegy before Death by Edna St. Vincent Millay • Tiara by Mark Doty

  14. Types of Poetry Con`t • Ode • Poem written to celebrate an event, a person, a thing, a being, a power, an object etc. • Horatian Odes: follow a regular stanza pattern and rhyme scheme • Irregular Odes: No set stanza or rhyme scheme

  15. Odes • Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Bowl of Goldfishes • Pablo Neruda’s Poems

  16. Assignment • Write your own Ode or Elegy • It must be at least 12 lines • Can be about anything or anyone • Can be serious (tribute to someone you love/loved) • It can be humorous (a tribute to something unusual) • Due. Tuesday, November 22nd

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