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Poetry Unit

12 CP English

Concepts to be Covered & Assessed:

Form and Structure

Diction and Word Choice

Sound Devices

Poetic Analysis Slide2

Types of Poetry Learned:

Sonnet English Italian

Narrative

Ballad

Elegy

Concrete Poem

VillanelleSlide3

Poetic and Sound Devices Learned

HyperboleParadoxMetaphorAlliteration

Imagery

Personification

Mood

Meter

Rhyme Scheme

Enjambed

Endstopped

Speaker

Theme

ToneSlide4

Sonnets -English

-Italian

12 CP English

Poetry UnitSlide5

sonnet

Sonnet: a 14 line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter, that has one of several traditional rhyme schemes.

2 types: Petrarchan (Italian) and Shakespearean (English)

Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet

T

he

octave

is the first 8 lines

where a problem or question is posed (rhyme scheme:

abbaabba

)

The

volta

is one line

between the octave and the sestet where the poem takes an abrupt turn

T

he

sestet

,

the last 6 lines

, is where the answer or resolution is presented (

cdecde

OR

cdcdcd

, OR

ccdeed

).

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Petrarchan sonnet (Italian)

Sonnet 15 by Petrarch

Tears, bitten tears fall in a bitter rain,

And my heart trembles with a storm of sighs

When on your beauty bend my burning eyes,

For whose sole sake the world seems flat and vain.

But ah, when I can see that smile again,

That chaste, sweet, delicate smile, then passion dies

Withered in its own flaming agonies:

Gazing upon you, passion is lost and pain.

But all too soon my very soul is rocked

When you depart and with your passing dear

Pluck from my perilous heaven my stars, O Sweet!

Then at the last, but Love’s own keys unlocked,

My soul from our my body leaping clearOn wings of meditation finds your feet.

Red: Octave

Blue: Volta

Black: SestetSlide7

Shakespearean sonnet (english

)

There are

14

lines in a Shakespearean sonnet.

-

The 12 lines

are divided into three quatrains with

4

lines each.

-In

the three quatrains the poet establishes a theme or problem -Poet resolves the problem in the final 2 lines, called the couplet -The rhyme scheme of the quatrains is abab cdcd

efef

.

-The

couplet has the rhyme scheme

gg

. Slide8

Shakespearean sonnet (english)

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day

? a

Thou art more lovely and more temperate

: b

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

, a

And summer's lease hath all too short a date

: b

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

, c

And often is his gold complexion

dimm'd

; d

And every fair from fair sometime declines

, c

By chance or nature's changing course

untrimm'd

; d

But thy eternal summer shall not fade eNor lose possession of that fair thou owest; fNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, eWhen in eternal lines to time thou growest: fSo long as men can breathe or eyes can see, gSo long lives this, and this gives life to thee. g

First quatrain

Second quatrain

Third quatrain

Final coupletsSlide9

Literary Devices

Literary

Device

Definition

Example

Hyperbole

A figure of speech that uses exaggeration

to express a strong sentiment or create a comic effect.

The room was so hot; I was sweating to death.

Metaphor

A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two seemingly unlike

things without using connective words such as

like

,

as

or

resembles

.

The stars

were icy diamonds in the sky. PersonificationA kind of metaphor in which a nonhuman thing or quality is talked about as if it were human. The clouds were dark and the sky was angry. Slide10

textbooks

Turn to page 682 and read Sonnet 61 and To Helene

and complete the Thinking Critically Questions (#1-5) on lined paper and turn these in by the end of the period.Slide11

Poetry Assignment #1: Sonnet (Quiz and Assessment grade)

Write a sonnet using

any

topic that you choose but you must follow the appropriate guidelines for the format chosen (Italian or English)

Refer back to your notes on the two forms of a sonnet. Use the sonnets discussed in class as examples.

You MUST include either a metaphor OR personification

AND

a hyperbole.

Rough draft (quiz) due: 10/31 (20 points)

Final draft (assessment) due: 11/02 (25 points) Slide12

Rhyme help!!

http://www.rhymezone.com/help/

http://www.rhymer.com

/

http://www.thesaurus.com

/

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Thinking Critically Questions: Sonnet 61 and To Helene

Metaphors:

Speaker describes himself as a prisoner; “where first possessed by two pure eyes I found me a prisoner” (lines 3-4)

He has been struck by Love’s arrow to his heart; “when Love came in as a guest; and blest the bow, the shafts which shook my breast” (lines 6-7)

Oxymorons

:

“Sweet pain” (line 5) and “The fierce despair of love” (line 11)

These

oxymorons

represent the conflicting emotions of his love or obsession with Laura

Most Important Word: “Blest” which is repeats 8 times reflects that it’ s a central idea to his theme, which is that he will love her and “bless” her despite her unrequited love.

Argument: In old age, Helene will regret having passed over someone who thought and wrote so beautifully of her.

Her response? Probably unaffected because she is still young and doesn’t need to be bothered with the “aging poet”

Advice: Live life to the fullest while she is still young and beautiful. His intentions do not seem pure; but rather his hope is that this will change her mind in regards to him. Slide14

Sonnet FINAL Drafts

Don’t forget a creative title… Spacing and punctuation are important.

You only use punctuation when you are done with your thought.

And spacing between stanzas/quatrains matter… think of them like paragraphs as you move onto the next idea. Maybe you don’t move on to the next idea, so you don’t space out the stanzas… Slide15

Close reading of poetry

Steps: Read Aloud

Define all unknown words

Paraphrase line by line

Identify the speaker

Who is speaking/narrating? What persona is the poet taking?

Identify the occasion

Why are they writing this poem? What is the poet’s purpose? Is there a setting?

Identify the rhyme scheme

Identify the theme

Identify major literary/poetic device Slide16

Submitting Final draft

Attach (staple) rubric to the FRONT of poem

Label M for metaphor OR P for personification; H for hyperbole on the LEFT HAND side of the poem next to corresponding line

--don’t turn into basket YET

Make sure it is submitted to turnitin.com by MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! *

*It will be marked 10% late if not handed in online on time!!!!!!!!!**Slide17
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BalladSlide19

Ballad Characteristics

A song or songlike poem, often from oral tradition Tells a story

Regular pattern of rhythm

Rhymes

Typical scheme is

abcb

Simple language

RepetitionSlide20

Poetic Devices

Literary and Sound Device

Definition

Example

Meter

A generally regular

pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry.

Iambic Pentameter

Rhyme Scheme

The pattern

of end rhymes. A rhyme scheme is indicated by assigning each new end rhyme a different letter of the alphabet.

Roses

are red (A)

Violets are blue (B)

I’m out of my head (A)

Thinking of you. (B)

Repetition

The intentional repeating

of a sound, word, phrase, line or idea in order to create a particular literary effect.

AlliterationsAlliterationThe repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close to one another. The broken bottle was busted. Slide21

Identifying rhyme scheme Slide22

Rhyme scheme

Ballad of BirminghamBy Dudley Randall

“Mother dear, may I got downtown

Instead of out to play,

And march the streets of Birmingham

In a Freedom March today?”

“No, baby, no, you may not go,

For the dogs are fierce and wild,

And clubs and hoses, guns and jails

Aren’t good for a little child.” Slide23

Rhyme scheme

Ballad of BirminghamBy Dudley Randall

“Mother dear, may I got downtown

A

Instead of out to play,

B

And march the streets of Birmingham

C

In a Freedom March today?”

B

“No, baby, no, you may not go,

D

For the dogs are fierce and wild,

E

And clubs and hoses, guns and jails F Aren’t good for a little child.”

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Identifying Rhyme scheme

Look through your packet and identify the rhyme scheme of each first stanza of the poem. Slide25

End Jammed/End Stopped Lines

Poetic devices cont’d Slide26

Ballad

End Jam: The sentence runs into the next line

An example is from an extract

from

The Winter's Tale

by Shakespeare is heavily

enjambed

(end jammed).

I am not prone to weeping, as our sex

Commonly

are; the want of which vain dew

Perchance

shall dry your pities; but I have

That

honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown.End Stop: The unit ends when the line ends An example of end-stopping can be found in the following extract from

The Burning Babe

by Robert

Southwell

; the end of each line corresponds to the end of a clause.

As I in hoary winter's night stood shivering in the snow,Surprised I was with sudden heat, which made my heart to glow;And lifting up a fearful eye to view what fire was near,A pretty babe all burning bright did in the air appear.Slide27

In this extract from The

Gap by Sheldon Vanauken, the first and third lines are end-jammed,

while the second and fourth are end-stopped:

All

else is off the point: the Flood, the Day

Of Eden

, or the Virgin Birth—Have

done!

The

Question is, did God send us the

Son

Incarnate

crying Love! Love is the Way!Slide28

End-jammed or End-stopped?

“An Essay on Man: Epistle I”:

Then say not man’s imperfect, Heav’n in fault;

Say rather, man’s as perfect as he ought:

His knowledge

measur’d

to his state and place,

His time a moment, and a point his space.

If to be perfect in a certain sphere,

What matter, soon or late, or here or there?

The blest today is as completely so,

As who began a thousand years ago. Slide29

End-jammed or End-stopped?

William Carlos Williams’s “Between Walls”:

the back wings

of the

hospital where

nothing

will grow lie

cinders

in which shine

the broken

pieces of a green

bottle Slide30

Quiz TOMORROw…

HyperboleMetaphor

Personification

Alliteration

Rhyme Scheme

End jammed/End Stopped

**Close reading of ballad due Monday: Choose 1 from the green packet!! Slide31

Close reading: Ballad

Select one ballad from the packet to close read for MondaySlide32

ElegySlide33

Characteristics of an elegy

A poem that mourns the death of a person or laments something lost. Traditional English poetry

Lyric

Melancholy in nature and solemn in tone

Formal in language

Laments passing of life and beauty OR just reflecting on the nature of death

Usually quatrain stanzas with rhyme scheme (ABAB or AABB) ---(usually in iambic pentameter) Slide34

Poetic devices

TONE

“The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character.”

-Conveyed through choice of words and description of characters and/or setting

-Usually described with one adjective

Examples

:

amused, angry, indifferent, sarcastic

MOOD

“The overall emotion created by the work of literature.”

-Usually described in one or two adjectives

Examples

:

Eerie, joyful, somber

VS. Slide35

Textbook…

Open to page 304 and read “Carpe Diem” by Horace and answer the Thinking Critically questions regarding tone and theme.

Then, page

540 and read the elegy “On Her Brother” by al-

Khansa

and answer the thinking critically questions.

*Finish for homework*Slide36

Elegy Close Reading…

Look up an elegy off the internet, copy it down on a piece of paper or into the green packet… THEN complete ALL of the steps… many of you are JUST paraphrasing. Slide37

Concrete poemSlide38

Characteristics of a concrete poem

The form contains so much significant meaning of the poem that, if you remove the form of the poem, you

could destroy

the poem

.

The

arrangement of letters and words creates an image that offers the meaning visually

.

See “Easter Wings” in packet Slide39

Free verseSlide40

Free verse

Poetry that has no regular meter or rhyme scheme.

Relies on the natural rhythm of ordinary speech

May use the following to achieve their effects:

Alliteration

Internal rhyme: rhyme within the same line

Example: “Once upon a midnight

dreary

, while I pondered, weak and

weary

”

“While

I nodded, nearly

napping

, suddenly there came a tapping,Repetition Imagery: language that appeals to the senses Slide41

narrativeSlide42

Narrative poem

A poem that tells a story

Characteristics:

Usually has a narrator and is told from their point of view

Setting

Characterization

Plot

Rising action, climax and resolution

Conflict

Imagery and figurative language (such as metaphors, personification, hyperbole, etc.)

Traditional rhyme scheme

ABAB; ABCB or AABB

Topic: not a set topic but usually a hero/heroine or love story Slide43

Diction:

Word ChoiceSlide44

Diction: Word ChoiceSlide45
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Diction:

Individuals vary their diction depending on different contexts and settings.

Therefore

, we come across various types of

diction

:

It

may be “formal” where formal words are used in formal situations e.g. press conferences, presentations etc.

Similarly

, we use “informal” diction in informal situations like writing or talking to our friends.

Moreover

, a “colloquial” diction uses words common in everyday speech.

“

Slang” is the use of words that are impolite or newly coined.Slide47

Diction:

Language can be classified in a number of ways.

Denotation: the literal meaning of a word; there are no emotions, values, or images associated with denotative meaning. Scientific and mathematical language carries few, if any emotional or connotative meanings.

Connotation: the emotions, values, or images associated with a word. The intensity of emotions or the power of the values and images associated with a word varies. Words connected with religion, politics, and sex tend to have the strongest feelings and images associated with

them.Slide48

Diction, cont’d

For most people, the word mother calls up very strong positive feelings and associations--loving, self-sacrificing, always there for you, understanding;

the

denotative meaning, on the other hand, is simply "a female animal who has borne one or more children."

Of

course connotative meanings do not necessarily reflect reality;

for

instance, if someone said, "His mother is not very motherly," you would immediately understand the difference between motherly (connotation) and mother (denotation). Slide49

Diction Activity:

Group 1: student, apprentice, disciple, junior, learner, novice, scholar, undergraduate

Group 2:

skinny, bony, angular, emaciated, gaunt, malnourished, scrawny, slender, thin, anorexic

Group 3:

run, amble, bound, dart, dash, gallop, lope, scamper, sprint

Group 4:

vacation, break, fiesta, furlough, holiday, intermission, layoff, recess, respite, sabbatical

Group 5:

busy, active, diligent, employed, occupied, persevering, unavailable

Group 6:

fear, dread, apprehension, anxiety, panic, terror

Group 7:

fat, obese, chubby, stout, plump, stocky, corpulent Slide50

Poetry Assignment #2: Narrative poem (Quiz

and Assessment grade)

Write your own narrative poem… follow the

requirements

!

15-30 lines

Topic of your choosing but must include all elements of a story (plot, characters, setting, conflict,

rhyme scheme, figurative language,

etc

).

Min. of 5 lines of imagery

Min. of 3 pieces of figurative

language (such as

similes, metaphors

, personification, hyperbole, or alliteration.)Must include at least 2 lines of end jammed

and

2 lines

of

end stopped

Rough draft (quiz) due: Monday, 11/21 (20 points) Final draft (assessment) due: Tuesday, 11/29 by midnight on turnitin.com with print out brought to class WEDNESDAY 11/30 (50 points) Slide51

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