Why Poetry? - Marc Wordsmith
... least closer to—the life of the poems. This book is called a "toolkit" because certain ways of thinking about and looking at poems may work like tools, or keys, for getting inside a poem. Understanding how an individual poetic device—such as a symbol or a rhythm—works within the poem, and how it inf ...
... least closer to—the life of the poems. This book is called a "toolkit" because certain ways of thinking about and looking at poems may work like tools, or keys, for getting inside a poem. Understanding how an individual poetic device—such as a symbol or a rhythm—works within the poem, and how it inf ...
Basics of English Studies: An introductory course for students of
... given an instant indication that what they are going to read is probably a poem. In consequence, a reader’s attention is likely to focus on ‘poetic features’ of the text. Poetry is often associated not only with specialised language but with a very dense use of such specialised language. Poems usual ...
... given an instant indication that what they are going to read is probably a poem. In consequence, a reader’s attention is likely to focus on ‘poetic features’ of the text. Poetry is often associated not only with specialised language but with a very dense use of such specialised language. Poems usual ...
A Computational Analysis of Style, Affect, and Imagery
... 2007; Longinus, 2001). These early scholars of poetic craft passed down the belief that poetic beauty stems from the level of individual words. In her influential creative writing textbook titled, “Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft,” Burroway (2007) describes poetry as a high-density form o ...
... 2007; Longinus, 2001). These early scholars of poetic craft passed down the belief that poetic beauty stems from the level of individual words. In her influential creative writing textbook titled, “Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft,” Burroway (2007) describes poetry as a high-density form o ...
A Computational Analysis of Style, Affect, and Imagery in
... 2007; Longinus, 2001). These early scholars of poetic craft passed down the belief that poetic beauty stems from the level of individual words. In her influential creative writing textbook titled, “Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft,” Burroway (2007) describes poetry as a high-density form o ...
... 2007; Longinus, 2001). These early scholars of poetic craft passed down the belief that poetic beauty stems from the level of individual words. In her influential creative writing textbook titled, “Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft,” Burroway (2007) describes poetry as a high-density form o ...
Glossary of Poetic Terms
... sequence. Sir John Davies' Hymnes of Astraea dedicates 26 acrostic poems to Elizabeth I. Edgar Allan Poe's "Enigma" provides another example. Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (1755) quotes John Dryden: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostick land: There t ...
... sequence. Sir John Davies' Hymnes of Astraea dedicates 26 acrostic poems to Elizabeth I. Edgar Allan Poe's "Enigma" provides another example. Samuel Johnson's great dictionary (1755) quotes John Dryden: Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostick land: There t ...
trimester 1
... Deconstructionist, and Reader-response. We will read a sample short story to demonstrate these theories. Poetry: We will begin our study of poetry this trimester, but we will continue next trimester as well. We will begin with an exploration of what poetry is. You will learn to respond to poetry on ...
... Deconstructionist, and Reader-response. We will read a sample short story to demonstrate these theories. Poetry: We will begin our study of poetry this trimester, but we will continue next trimester as well. We will begin with an exploration of what poetry is. You will learn to respond to poetry on ...
Literary Bible
... “The pure and simple truth is never pure, and rarely simple." 27. apocalypse. (Greek, apokalupsis, “unveiling”). The last book of the New Testament containing the revelation made to St. John on the island of Patmos. Generally speaking, it means any disclosure of the future. 28. apocrypha. (Greek, ap ...
... “The pure and simple truth is never pure, and rarely simple." 27. apocalypse. (Greek, apokalupsis, “unveiling”). The last book of the New Testament containing the revelation made to St. John on the island of Patmos. Generally speaking, it means any disclosure of the future. 28. apocrypha. (Greek, ap ...
Poetry Terms Paradox
... About nature Example: Soft summer rains fall I long for those long June days Long cold winter now ...
... About nature Example: Soft summer rains fall I long for those long June days Long cold winter now ...
Genre Study - NordoniaEnglish12CP
... • Example: • “When April with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower;” • Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ...
... • Example: • “When April with his showers sweet with fruit The drought of March has pierced unto the root And bathed each vein with liquor that has power To generate therein and sire the flower;” • Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales ...
AP Literature and Composition Literary Terms
... mood: a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. Mood is created through the use of plot, character, the author’s descriptions, etc. moral: a lesson that a story teaches. A moral is often stated directly at the end of a fable. motif (moh-TEEF): a recurring object, c ...
... mood: a mood or atmosphere is the feeling that a literary work conveys to readers. Mood is created through the use of plot, character, the author’s descriptions, etc. moral: a lesson that a story teaches. A moral is often stated directly at the end of a fable. motif (moh-TEEF): a recurring object, c ...
Arnold`s "Dover Beach" presents the reader with a virtual journey
... says, he listened "motionless and still," and as he traveled up the hill, he carried her song with him in his heart long after he could no longer hear it. Form The four eight-line stanzas of this poem are written in a tight iambic tetrameter. Each follows a rhyme scheme of ABABCCDD, though in the fi ...
... says, he listened "motionless and still," and as he traveled up the hill, he carried her song with him in his heart long after he could no longer hear it. Form The four eight-line stanzas of this poem are written in a tight iambic tetrameter. Each follows a rhyme scheme of ABABCCDD, though in the fi ...
English 1 Academic Vocabulary
... repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter. It is classified as a literary term used in both poetry as well as prose. For instance, the words chuckle, fickle, and kick are consonant with one and other due to the existence of common interior consonant sounds (/ck/).Wil ...
... repetition often takes place in quick succession such as in pitter, patter. It is classified as a literary term used in both poetry as well as prose. For instance, the words chuckle, fickle, and kick are consonant with one and other due to the existence of common interior consonant sounds (/ck/).Wil ...
Glossary of Literary Terms
... memoir is about the author’s personal experiences. However, a memoir does not necessarily cover the author’s entire life. metaphor (met-AH-for): a type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two things that are essentially unalike but may have one quality in common. Unlike a si ...
... memoir is about the author’s personal experiences. However, a memoir does not necessarily cover the author’s entire life. metaphor (met-AH-for): a type of figurative language in which a comparison is made between two things that are essentially unalike but may have one quality in common. Unlike a si ...
CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE A. Figurative
... Endraswara, Metodologi Penelitian Sastra, Etimologi, Model, Teori dan Aplikasi, 72 Siswantoro, Apresiasi Puisi-puisi Sastra Inggris (Surakarta: Muhammadiyah University Press, 2005), 24 ...
... Endraswara, Metodologi Penelitian Sastra, Etimologi, Model, Teori dan Aplikasi, 72 Siswantoro, Apresiasi Puisi-puisi Sastra Inggris (Surakarta: Muhammadiyah University Press, 2005), 24 ...
Writing about Poetry - Victoria University WWW Staff
... Quatrain: 4 lines within a sonnet Octave: 8 lines within Petrarchan sonnet Sestet: 6 lines Rhyming couplet: conclusion of sonnet Volta: the point of change within sonnet ...
... Quatrain: 4 lines within a sonnet Octave: 8 lines within Petrarchan sonnet Sestet: 6 lines Rhyming couplet: conclusion of sonnet Volta: the point of change within sonnet ...
Characteristics of the Ballad (From Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry
... B. Short narrative song ...
... B. Short narrative song ...
1. Basic Terms syntax
... Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet: A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with the following rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde OR cdcdcd Its first octave generally presents a thought, picture, or emotion, while its final sestet presents an explanation, comment, or summary. 5. Meter stress: greater amount o ...
... Italian (Petrarchan) Sonnet: A form of sonnet made popular by Petrarch with the following rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde OR cdcdcd Its first octave generally presents a thought, picture, or emotion, while its final sestet presents an explanation, comment, or summary. 5. Meter stress: greater amount o ...
A Sliver Of Liver
... Of yukky old slimy old slithery liver; I’m saying no thanks, not today. No, I’ll pass for tonight but tomorrow I might Simply Beg for a sliver of liver. “Give me liver!” I’ll cry. “I’ll have liver or die! Oh, PLEASE cook me a sliver of liver!” One piece might not do, I’ll need two or a few, I’ll wan ...
... Of yukky old slimy old slithery liver; I’m saying no thanks, not today. No, I’ll pass for tonight but tomorrow I might Simply Beg for a sliver of liver. “Give me liver!” I’ll cry. “I’ll have liver or die! Oh, PLEASE cook me a sliver of liver!” One piece might not do, I’ll need two or a few, I’ll wan ...
An Introduction to Stress and Meter Consider the sound of the
... Or it might be "trochaic hexameter" (having six feet, with each foot tending to be a heavy syllable followed by a light syllable). Iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme is called "blank verse." The Earl of Surrey, a Renaissance writer who lived just before Shakespeare, introduced blank verse into Eng ...
... Or it might be "trochaic hexameter" (having six feet, with each foot tending to be a heavy syllable followed by a light syllable). Iambic pentameter that doesn't rhyme is called "blank verse." The Earl of Surrey, a Renaissance writer who lived just before Shakespeare, introduced blank verse into Eng ...
For my Sister Molly Who in the Fifties
... untrimmed*=without trimmings/decorations ow’st*=own In William Shakespeare’s day, any gentleman was expected to be able to produce a sonnet in praise of someone he loved. Very few sonnets seem to be written by the women of those times. To write a sonnet was a challenge, a kind of game. The writer wa ...
... untrimmed*=without trimmings/decorations ow’st*=own In William Shakespeare’s day, any gentleman was expected to be able to produce a sonnet in praise of someone he loved. Very few sonnets seem to be written by the women of those times. To write a sonnet was a challenge, a kind of game. The writer wa ...
12 Writing about Poetry
... strong expectations to a poem—for many a poem must rhyme; for many others, a poem must not rhyme. While at odds with each other, both of these expectations define poetry in terms of form—the way its thoughts and words are organized. The fact is, many poems are rhymed, many are unrhymed, and many are ...
... strong expectations to a poem—for many a poem must rhyme; for many others, a poem must not rhyme. While at odds with each other, both of these expectations define poetry in terms of form—the way its thoughts and words are organized. The fact is, many poems are rhymed, many are unrhymed, and many are ...
Literary Terms Handout
... English (or Shakespearean) sonnet A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in though ...
... English (or Shakespearean) sonnet A sonnet rhyming ababcdcdefefgg. Its content or structure ideally parallels the rhyme scheme, falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet; but it is often structured, like the Italian sonnet, into octave and sestet, the principal break in though ...
From the Archive of Censored Materials by ko ko thett
... Until 2011 much of the poetry written in Burma was underground, and in samizdat form, of which ko ko thett probably knows too well as he was a dissident poet at Rangoon Institute of Technology in the 1990s until he left the country for his political troubles in 1997. In 1997-2002 when I wrote and pr ...
... Until 2011 much of the poetry written in Burma was underground, and in samizdat form, of which ko ko thett probably knows too well as he was a dissident poet at Rangoon Institute of Technology in the 1990s until he left the country for his political troubles in 1997. In 1997-2002 when I wrote and pr ...