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Poetry
The language of everythingSlide2
What is Poetry?
Poetry is a form of written expression
Is used to express feelings, emotions or ideas in a direct or indirect way
Follows language structure according to certain rules of specific poemsSlide3
Meter
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern.
When poets write in meter, they count out the number of stressed (strong) syllables and unstressed (weak) syllables for each line. They then
repeat the pattern throughout the poem.Slide4
Meter
FOOT - unit of meter.
A foot can have two or three syllables.
Usually consists of one stressed and one or more unstressed syllables.
TYPES OF FEET
The types of feet are determined by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables.
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Meter
TYPES OF
FEET
Iambic
- unstressed,
stressed
Trochaic
- stressed,
unstressed
Anapestic
- unstressed, unstressed,
stressed
Dactylic
- stressed, unstressed, unstressedSlide6
Types of PoetrySlide7
Verse
(traditional poetry)
Rhyming poetry with specific meter
The Bible is in verse (not all of it)Slide8
Example of Verse
William
Wordsworth
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Slide9
Free Verse
An open form of poetry with few repeating rhymes or poetic rules
Follows patterns of speech
Began in late 19th Century and is commonly used todaySlide10
Walt Whitman
After the Sea-Ship
After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying,
Waves, undulating waves—liquid, uneven, emulous waves,
Toward that whirling current, laughing and buoyant, with curves,
Where the great Vessel, sailing and tacking, displaced the surface;Slide11
Prose
(Similar to Free Verse)
Colloquial speech
DialogueServants speaking to each other in ShakespeareNo rhyming scheme or meterSlide12
Shakespearean Sonnet
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.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou
ow’st
;
Nor shall Death brag thou
wanderest
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.
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
The poem is written in three quatrains and ends with a couplet.
The rhyme scheme is
abab cdcd efef ggSlide13
Haiku
at the
ancient pond
a frog leaps into watera deep resonance
A Japanese poem written in three lines
Five Syllables
Seven Syllables
Five SyllablesSlide14
Concrete Poetry
Poems that reflect a certain physical shape
Text is arranged on the page to look like an object
The text speaks about the subject and the shape of the poem relates to the textSlide15
Spoken Word
Poetry that is meant to be spoken out loud
Speakers use beat, rhythm, emphasis and pauses to create a feeling
Repetitive speech, rhyming, alliteration, allow the audience to experience spoken word with the speakerSlide16
Found Poetry
Found pieces of paper, billboards, TTC advertisements, bits of recycling, notes on desks, pieces of email subject lines, etc.
All of these can be combined to create a poem
Minor alterations from the author changes the text into a poemSlide17
How to create an effective poem
Use Literary Devices!
Metaphor, simile, imagery, etc.
Make sure to be creative and allow the reader to use their imaginationWrite about what you’re passionate about.Make the reader think while they read your poem and after they finish the poem.