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What is poetry?

Cinquain

Acrostic

Limerick

Haiku

Concrete

Prose

Elegy

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Why do we read and write poetry?

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Elements of Poetry

Poetry is not prose. Prose is:ordinary language people use in speaking or writing

Poetry

is:

a

form of literary expression

captures

intense

experiences

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Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry

Unlike prose which has a narrator, poetry has a speaker.A speaker, or voice, talks to the reader. The speaker is not necessarily the poet. It can also be a fictional person, an animal or even a thing

Example

But believe me, son.

I want to be what I used to be

when I was like you.

from “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel

Okara

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Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry

Poetry is also formatted differently from prose.

A

line

is a word or row of words that may or may not form a complete sentence.

A

stanza

is a group of lines

in a poem.

The stanzas in a poem are separated by a space.

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Prose Vs. Poetry

No rhymeNo pattern/rhythmNo line divisionCan use imagesCan target emotionsDivisions are paragraphs

Rhymed/Unrhymed

Follows a beat/has rhythm

Line division

Uses images to focus on a particular idea

Targets emotions through use of images

Divisions are stanzas

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Prose

 

A

woman stands on a mountain top with the cold seeping into her body. She looks on the valley below as the wind whips around her. She cannot leave to go to the peaceful beauty below.

         In the valley, the sun shines from behind the clouds causing flowers to bloom. A breeze sends quivers through the leaves of trees. The water gurgles in a brook. All the woman can do is cry.

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Poetry

 

  The Woman on the Peak

         The woman stands upon the barren peak,

         Gazing down on the world beneath.

         The lonely chill seeps from the ground

         Into her feet, spreading, upward bound.

         The angry wind whistles ‘round her head,

         Whipping her hair into streaming snakes,

         While she watches, wishes, weakly wails.

         Beyond the mountain, sunshine peeks,

         Teasing flowers to survive and thrive.

         The breeze whispers through the leaves,

         Causing gentle quivers to sway the trees.

         Laughter gurgles as the splashing brook

         Playfully tumbles over rugged rocks,

         While the woman above can only grieve.

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Prose vs. poetry

No one warns little girls that boys tell lies and they end up crying on their pillows at night rather than chasing their dreams.

Boys: Do you have a rebuttal?

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You try!

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Enjambment

Incomplete syntax at the end of the line in which the meaning runs from one poetic line to the next (run on).T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire,….

William Carlos Williams’s “Between Walls” is one sentence broken into 10

enjambed

lines:

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Rhyme

Rhyme

is the repetition of the same stressed vowel sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more words.

Red, bed, said, Ted, etc…

Internal rhyme

occurs within a line of poetry.

End rhyme

occurs at the end of lines.

Rhyme scheme

is the pattern of end rhymes that may be designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each new rhyme

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Rhyme Scheme

Pattern of rhyme in a stanza or poem. You can identify the rhyme scheme in stanzas by looking at the last word in the line and assigning letters to the rhyming words

Example:

Like the sun behind the

clouds

A

Like the darkness of the

night

B

Like the grass beneath the

trees

C

You stepped into the

light

…

B

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In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze,Where the world and sky are one, He shall ride the silver seas, He shall cut the glittering wave.I shall sit at home, and rock;Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock;Brew my tea, and snip my thread;Bleach the linen for my bed. They will call him brave.

“Penelope” by Dorothy Parker

A

B

A

B

C

D

D

E

E

C

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Rhyme Scheme Practice

1.

I knew I’d have to grow up sometime, ______

That my childhood memories would end, ______

But a spark within me died, ______

When I lost my imaginary friend. ______

2.

As the sun set and the moon came, ______

I looked out the window in dread and shame. ______

The sound of birds rose from the sky, ______

I waved my hand and bid goodbye. ______

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3.When I look into his eyes, ______I see the deep blue sea. ______I hope my love never dies, ______That he’ll always be there for me. ______4.And here ends the saga ______Of writers who have grown. ______We’re successful authors, ______Now we will be unknown. ______

Rhyme Scheme Practice

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Dramatic Poetry Dramatizes action through dialogue or monologue

Narrative Poetry Poetry-Tells a story

Lyrical Poetry Expresses Personal thoughts and Emotions

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Acrostic

A poem that spells out a word.

S

cary

C

urious

H

umiliating

O

pen

O

pportunity

L

aughter

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Challenge...

Come up with the BEST acrostic poem for the word, English. Be ready to share!ENGLISH

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Cinquain

five line poem (1 noun, 2 adjectives, 3 gerunds, full sentence, 1 synonym)

Money

Green, desirable

Earning, sharing, stealing

It is the necessary evil of the world.

Wealth

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Compose a cinquain using the one of the following words: love, hate, friendship, or family.

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Concrete

A poem that focuses on the visual aspect of poetry, thus creating a shape.

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Elegy

An Elegy is a sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person.

The Stone Alone in a meadow

in

the pouring rain I find the stone that causes all my pain,

As

I stumble through the fog in disbelief

I

fall down upon my knees and sob in grief

The

fog horn cries her mournful sound

As

my heart falls down,

beneath

the ground Crying out to God

for

mercy all in vain

To

take away the stone that bears your name

--

Elaine

George

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Epitaph

A short poem, saying or other message on a gravestone in memory of a deceased person.

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Epic

An epic poem is a long, serious, poetic narrative about a significant event, often featuring a hero. Example:The IliadThe OdysseyBeowulf

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Free Verse

Free Verse is a type of poetry that exhibits very little boundaries. It does not rhyme but rather “flows.” It is not story-like with complete sentences but poetic like the following:

Nightmare

A thought, or is it reality

Mysterious happenings

Seeking to be let out

Scary beyond all measures

Falling into darkness

Only finding

…morning

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Sample Free Verse—Can you guess the subject and give it a title?

Fleeting

Whispering the words of the deaf

Always felt but never touched

Always heard but never seen

Cornering you in the night

Unbiased

And

e

verchanging

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Let’s write one together. Contribute a line!

Tomorrow

It is just beyond the horizon

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Group 1 --Clouds

Group 2-- Adventure

Group 3--Winter

Group 4--Betrayal

Group 5--Laughter

Work collaboratively with your group to construct a Free Verse poem over your given topic. EACH group member must contribute at least one line!

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Haiku

A Haiku is a Japanese poem that follows a specific pattern. Haikus traditionally deal with subjects associated with nature or natural things. - the first line must be five syllables- the second line must be seven syllables- the third line must be five syllables (5, 7, 5 rule)Examples:

The whisper of wind Here today, here tomorrowAlways Everywhere.

Yellow lines white linesIt shouldn't be quite so hardTo stay in between

Curving up, then down.  

Meeting blue sky and green earth  

Melding sun and rain.

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Are these Haikus? If not, how can they be fixed?

NightMystery lurkingChilled to the bones with fearCautiously waiting

Friends

True friends do listen

When life seems to get you down

T

rust is key

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You try! Fill in the two five syllable lines.

*Fill in the seven syllable line.It was the first time _____________________________ Beautiful escape 

*Fill in the two five syllable lines.

___________________________

 

The petals bend to the earth

___________________________

 

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Limerick

A limerick poem is one in which the first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables

(typically 8 or 9)

.

The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same amount of syllables. Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a...” and are typically funny/humorous!

Example of an

8,8,5,5,8

syllable limerick:

There

once was a girl on the bus

So

cute she made

Christopher fuss

He

gave her a look

Got

smacked with a book

It

hurt him so bad that he cussed.

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Sample Limericks

There once was a boy named Bieberwho gave all the ladies feverSmall pox it was not,they thought he was hot,with hair like a golden retriever.

My homework has just been beset

by

the memes on the Internet

A

panda

sneezes

...

Then

my comp freezes!

And

I'm stuck with math I don't

get

.

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Lyric Poem

A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the writer; has a song-like quality

Example

:

I felt a Funeral, in my

Brain, (340)

BY EMILY DICKINSON

I

felt a Funeral, in my Brain,

And Mourners to and fro

Kept treading - treading - till it seemed

That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,

A Service, like a Drum -

Kept beating - beating - till I thought

My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box

And creak across my Soul

With those same Boots of Lead, again,

Then Space - began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,

And Being, but an Ear,

And I, and Silence, some strange Race,

Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,

And I dropped down, and down -

And hit a World, at every plunge,

And Finished knowing - then -

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Ode

A poem that celebrates a subject; a tribute to an object, person or event

Ode to Whataburger:

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Ode

On a more serious note:

Example

:

Ode on Solitude

BY ALEXANDER POPE

Happy the man, whose wish and care

A few paternal acres bound,

Content to breathe his native air,

In his own ground.

Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,

Whose flocks supply him with attire,

Whose trees in summer yield him shade,

In winter fire.

Blest, who can unconcernedly find

Hours, days, and years slide soft away,

In health of body, peace of mind,

Quiet by day,

Sound sleep by night; study and ease,

Together mixed; sweet recreation;

And innocence, which most does please,

With meditation.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;

Thus unlamented let me die;

Steal from the world, and not a stone

Tell where I lie.

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Sonnet

A form of poetry that was created during the renaissance. English sonnets consist of 14 lines; three, four line stanzas (quatrains) accompanied by a two line (couplets) closing stanza.  The rhyming scheme for an English Sonnet is:ababcdcdefefgg

To

repeat one’s lovely self twice daily

And to tell the time is quite the ticket;

While grinding your shining gears quite gaily

Within ticking metal so intricate.

It

just takes some time and its’ dictation

To fuel your ever-working little hands

Silently counting the world’s rotations

As wind blows hard upon the dusty sands

.

A

clever guardian of all that breathes

And of everything that’s rightly true;

An invisible sower of the seeds

But will you choose to see tomorrow through

?

 

You

can erode the world down to the last

Teller of future, and keeper of past.

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Poetic Devices

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Figurative and Literal Language

Literally: words function exactly as defined The car is blue. He caught the football.Figuratively: figure out what it means I’ve got your back. You’re a doll. ^Figures of Speech

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Alliteration

Alliteration refers to

repetition of

a particular

sound

in the first syllables of a series of words

and/or phrases.

Don't delay dawns disarming display .

Dusk demands daylight .

Dewdrops dwell delicately

drawing dazzling delight .

Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.

Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered

daylights distilled daisy dance

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AlliterationCafeteria Chaos

The

l

ine

l

ingers,

My stomach growls.

T

ina

t

opples her

t

ray,

And the

wh

ole place

h

owls!

Sp

inach

sp

ills!

P

ass the

p

aper towels!

Someone

p

ings a

p

ea,

And the

f

ifth grade teacher

f

rowns!

What’s

l

ikely at

l

unch?

Everyone

ch

omps and

ch

ows down!

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Assonance

Repetition of vowel sound.

Examples

“That solit

u

de which s

ui

ts abstr

u

ser m

u

sings” - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Hear the m

e

llow w

e

dding b

e

lls.” — Edgar Allen Poe

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Assonance Examples

Writers

sometimes repeat vowel sounds to reinforce the meaning of the words. It also helps to create moods. Here, the long

o

sounds mysterious.

P

o

etry is

o

ld, ancient, g

o

es back far. It is am

o

ng the

o

ldest

o

f living things. S

o

o

ld it is that n

o

man kn

o

ws h

o

w and why the first p

o

ems came. --Carl Sandburg,

Early Moon

And so, all the n

i

ght-t

i

de,

I

l

i

e down by the s

i

de

Of my darling, my darling, my l

i

fe and my br

i

de.

--Edgar Allan Poe, "Annabel Lee"

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Consonance

Repetition of a consonant sound that is not at the beginning of the

word—appears in the middle or end of words.

Example

The

su

n

goes

dow

n

“a

s

in guy

s

she gently sway

s

at ea

se

” –Robert Frost

The letter was bla

nk

, and she didn’t even bli

nk

.

Soun

d

besi

d

e the woo

d

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Sound Devices Review

Alliteration is repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of a word.Assonance is repetition of vowel sounds (typically happens in the middle of a word).Consonance is repetition of consonant sound at the end of words.Trick: Put the words in alphabetical order!Alliteration Assonance Consonance

beginning

middle

end

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Anaphora

The repetition of a word or phrase for emphasis.

Winston Churchill’s famous 1940 speech before the Commons:

We shall

not flag or fail.

We shall

go on to the end.

We shall

fight in France,

we shall

fight on the seas and oceans,

we shall

fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,

we shall

defend our island, whatever the cost may be,

we shall

fight on the beaches,

we shall

fight on the landing grounds,

we shall

fight in the fields and in the streets,

we shall

fight in the hills.

We shall

never surrender.

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Allusion

An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference to, or representation of, a place, event, literary work, myth, or work of art, either directly or by implication.I was his Juliet, he my Romeo.When she walked down the hall they parted like the red sea.

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Connotation and Denotation

Connotation - the emotion or attitude surrounding a word.

Denotation - the strict dictionary meaning of a word.

Example: You may live in a

house

, but we live in a

home.

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Which of the following has a more favorable connotation?

thrifty penny-pinching

pushy aggressive

politician statesman

chef cook

slender skinny

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Elements of Poetry

When we explore the connotation and denotation of a poem, we are looking at the poet’s diction.

Diction – the

choice of words

by an author or poet.

Many times, a poet’s diction can help unlock the tone or mood of the poem.

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Elements of Poetry: Tone and Mood

Mood

– the feeling or atmosphere that a poet creates. Mood can suggest an emotion (ex. “excited”) or the quality of a setting (ex. “calm”, “somber”) In a poem, mood can be established through word choice, line length, rhythm, etc

.

Tone – a reflection of the poet’s attitude toward the subject of a poem. Tone can be serious, sarcastic, humorous, etc.

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Hyperbole

Hyperboles are figures of speech that are exaggerated in order to create emphasis or effect.I’m so hungry I could eat a horse!I have a million things to do.He’ll live to be six-hundred and two!

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Idiom

Idioms are, literally ideas as expressions. They develop from older usage, where the words mean something other than their literal meaning.A chip on your shoulderA slap on the wristA fair-weather friendA piece of cake

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Metaphor

Comparing two unlike things not using like or as.

Examples:

My mother is a rock.

He has a heart of stone.

Life is a struggle.

Time is money.

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Hate is a sore, festering and bubbling on the heartHate is a single-leafed tree, its owner weak and aloneHate is a wilted rose, time has worn it from beauty to wretchednessHate is a zit, ready to burstHate is the Hulk, small when calm, huge and fierce when agitatedHate is a snake, it swallows its enemies wholeHate is a birthday party, it can take you by surpriseHate is a tree, it stands the test of timeHate is a rubber band, it will snap when pulled too hardHate is a deadly disease, something you don’t want to catch

Metaphor Poems

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Metaphor Poems

Extended Metaphor (also called a Conceit)

Hate is a zit

Earned by debris, dirt, oil, grime

Kicked into a face

By a filthy world

It begins beneath the surface

Then pokes out its disgusting head

Makes the face turn red

And grows and grows

Until finally

It explodes

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Compose your own 5 line metaphor poem

You may use any of the following terms:

Love, faith, friendship, joy, cold, heat

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Onomatopoeia

The process of creating or using words that imitate sounds.

Buzz

Chirp

Baah

Bang

Beep

clatter

ding

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Shout and shoot and gargle, gasp,Gab and gag and groan,Hem and haw and work the jaw,Grumble, mumble, moan…Beef and bellyache and bat,Say a mouthful, squawk,That is what some people doWhen they merely talk.

Onomatopoeia Poem

What Some People Do

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Oxymoron

A special kind of concise paradox that brings together two contradicting terms

The battle of little big horn.

A venomous love

Bitter-sweet

Alone in a crowd

Among the first

A big baby

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Personification

Awarding human like qualities to inanimate objects.

The sun looked down and smiled.

Opportunity knocks.

The Earth felt the wound.

The lightning lashed out with anger.

The stars danced in the night sky.