Sensory Language and Visual Imagery Since most poems express emotions and ideas a writer must SHOW what is being written about Poets and song writers use visual imagery and sensory language to show ideas ID: 548415
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Introduction to the Aspects of PoetrySlide2
Sensory Language and Visual Imagery
Since most poems express emotions and ideas, a writer must SHOW what is being written about. Poets and song writers use visual imagery and sensory language to show ideas.
Sensory language
is using words that appeal to the five senses. Showing what something sounds, smells, tastes, looks, and feels like.
Visual imagery
is “painting a picture with words.” Visual imagery uses aspects of sensory language, specifically sight, to recreate images, ideas and emotions. Strong verbs and specific adjectives/ adverbs are used.Slide3
Example of Sensory Language and Visual Imagery
“The Round” by Stanley Kunitz
Light splashed this morningon the shell-pink anemonesswaying on their tall stems;down blue-spiked Veronicalight flowed in rivuletsover the humps of the honeybees;this morning I saw light kissthe silk of the rosesin their second flowering,my late bloomersflushed with their brandy.A curious gladness shook me…
Blue- personification
Green- visual imagerySlide4
The Student by Ted Kooser
The green shell of his back pack makes him lean Green- visual imagery
into wave after wave or responsibility, Red- simileand he swings his stiff arms and cupped hands,paddling ahead. He has extended his neckto its full length, and his chin, hard as a beak,breaks the cold surf. He’s got his baseball cap onbackward as up he crawls, out of the frothof a hangover and onto the sand of the future,
and lumbers, heavy with hope, into the library.Slide5
Type and Form
There are MANY different types or forms of poems. Some fit a specific format and some fit a specific theme.
Some examples of format poems:Acrostic: a word or set of words is written down the page and each line starts with that letter.Sestina: Each stanza must use the same end words as the first stanza, but in a different pattern each time.Pantoum: Each stanza reuses different lines in a specific pattern from the previous stanzas.Slide6
One of the hardest things about writing poetry is making a topic that has already been written about seem new.
Derek Walcott helps answer this question.
“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.”Salvatore Quasimodo Therefore, poetry must come alive in a way that makes readers feel as if they are experiencing events and emotions for the first time. Everyone has had relationship troubles, mourned the death of a loved one, or witnessed injustice. How do you write about your experience so the reader sees it as your own?Slide7
Showing VS. Telling
If your emotion is sadness, how do you show us?
If your emotion is happiness, how do you show us?Slide8
Lonely
I wish I wasn’t lonely.
I wish I could escape my loneliness.I would run fast.I would leaveAnd my loneliness wouldn’t be able to find me.Is this a good poem? 2. What would you add or change to make it better?Slide9
Symbols as thematic word choice
Symbols are words, ideas etc. used to represent something else or an idea.
Symbols are used often in poetry. A word, a phrase or the whole poem could be a symbol. Slide10
Rhyme-The repetition of the accented vowel sounds and all succeeding sounds
Examples- m
ouse/house, basement/casement,June/spoonPurposes- Rhyme gives specific flow, can connect ideas together. Typically seen in children’s poetry, humor or light verse (Hallmark cards).Slide11
Rhyme Scheme:
A way to label a pattern of rhyme occurring throughout a poem.
The cat was really big. AHe ate lots of mice. BHe liked to wear a wig. AHe chewed on some dice. BSome poems require a certain rhyme scheme (limericks and sonnets for example.)Rhymezone.com is website for rhyming.Slide12
Examples of Rhyming Poems
Ogden Nash-The King of funny rhyme
“Celery”Celery, raw Develops the jaw, But celery, stewed, Is more quietly chewed. “The Wasp”The wasp and all his numerous family I look upon as a major calamity. He throws open his nest with prodigality, But I distrust his waspitality.