PPT-Reading Poetry

English Literature and Composition AP Elements of Poetic Style Diction selection of words Syntax order of words Imagery details of sight sound taste smell and touch Figurative Language. Emerged in late 1960’s, early 1970’s. Response to mainstream American poetry. Developed in diverse communities of San Francisco and New York. Draws readers’ attention to use of language. Focus on meaning. Thinking About Language Poetically . Instead of Intellectually. &. Creating Poems from Other Sources. Background. Rosemount High School. Demographics:. American Indian 0.5%. Asian 6.1%. Hispanic 4.1%. Yippee!. What is it?. Poetry is one of the three major types of literature; the others are prose and drama. Most poems make use of highly concise, musical, and emotionally charged language. Many also make use of imagery, figurative language, and special devices of sound such as rhyme. Poems are often divided into lines and stanzas and usually employ regular rhythmical patterns, or meters.. Dr Rose Lucas. Performance poetry, as the name would suggest, involves a focus on the physical and embodied presentation of poetry - rather than relying on the words on a page.. What is . P. erformance Poetry?. Poetry is using words in a way that helps us see, feel, and hear them. Poetry bounces off your tongue, tickles your ears, and makes you think. Poetry usually has a rhythm or flow. There are many types of poetry and many types of poetic devices, or tools, that poets use. Poetry is a way of borrowing from other styles of writing (Rosen, 1997).. Poetry should be a personal encounter with a poet’s words that touches you in such a way to bring you back again and again for more – you can’t get enough! (, 0000).. Reading poetry is . important for the . growth of society. The best poems are filled with examples of figurative language. Poetry is only good for expressing feelings and should not be used for anything else. Barry J. Wilson. wilsonbj@gov.ns.ca. October 2009. “I don’t have to say, “Poetry is rhythmic, boys and girls; why don’t you dance a little?” They know the music of the poem because they feel it in their bodies.” . Dr. Rose Lucas. We have practised close reading skills across a range of period and styles (or sub-genres) of poetry:. the anonymous ballad, . the sonnet, . the lyric, . Metaphysical poetry. romanticism . LL Poetry: . Reading . Poetry. REVIEW:. The Value of a Dictionary. If a poet troubles to seek out the best words available, the least we can do is to find out what the words mean.. An . allusion . is an indirect reference to any person or thing--fictitious, historical, actual.. structuralist. Turn. Last week: Barthes’s description of a text as a confluence of a multiplicity of texts enjoyed in a multiplicity of ways by liberated readers; Foucault’s scepticism’s about the total knowability of the archive or the full, objective description of any episteme.. Haiku. Cinquain. . Diamante . Rhyming . Free Verse. Poetic Devices . Alliteration-. the initial sounds of a word, beginning either with a consonant or a vowel, repeated in close succession.. Assonance-. Response to mainstream American poetry. Developed in diverse communities of San Francisco and New York. Draws readers’ attention to use of language. Focus on meaning. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine Online. What Is Poetry?. Poetry is as universal as language and almost as ancient. . The most primitive peoples have used it, and the most civilized have cultivated it. In all ages and in all countries, poetry has been written – and eagerly read or listened to – by all kinds and conditions of people, by soldiers, statesmen, lawyers, farmers, doctors, scientists, clergymen, philosophers, kings, and queens. In all ages it has been especially the concern of the educated, the intelligent, and the sensitive, and it has appealed, in its simpler forms, to the uneducated and children. .