Poetry Terms
... This is as though the poem is broken up into “paragraphs” “Gleaming in silver are the hills! Blazing in silver is the sea! And a silvery radiance spills Where the moon drives royally!” –James Stevens, “Washed ...
... This is as though the poem is broken up into “paragraphs” “Gleaming in silver are the hills! Blazing in silver is the sea! And a silvery radiance spills Where the moon drives royally!” –James Stevens, “Washed ...
examples of different types of poetry: i
... The next best-known lyric is the sonnet, which may be in the Petrarchan or Italian form, Elizabethan or Shakespearean or English form, or the American or innovative form. The Petrarchan takes its name from the 13th century Italian poet Petrarch. The Petrarchan sonnet consists of two stanzas: an octa ...
... The next best-known lyric is the sonnet, which may be in the Petrarchan or Italian form, Elizabethan or Shakespearean or English form, or the American or innovative form. The Petrarchan takes its name from the 13th century Italian poet Petrarch. The Petrarchan sonnet consists of two stanzas: an octa ...
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... words mean exactly what they say. Also known as the "ornaments of language," figurative language does not mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend an author's point. It usually involves a comparison between two things that may not, a ...
... words mean exactly what they say. Also known as the "ornaments of language," figurative language does not mean exactly what it says, but instead forces the reader to make an imaginative leap in order to comprehend an author's point. It usually involves a comparison between two things that may not, a ...
Basic Definition
... than a description of an infested flower bed. Because of the symbolism, it suggests that all that is beautiful, natural, and good in the world is being secretly destroyed by something we cannot see. The worm "flies in the night," and then hides beneath the dirt of the flower bed. This means that we ...
... than a description of an infested flower bed. Because of the symbolism, it suggests that all that is beautiful, natural, and good in the world is being secretly destroyed by something we cannot see. The worm "flies in the night," and then hides beneath the dirt of the flower bed. This means that we ...
A Sliver Of Liver
... Just a sliver of liver they want me to eat, It’s good for my blood, they all say; They want me to eat just the tiniest sliver 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 ...
... Just a sliver of liver they want me to eat, It’s good for my blood, they all say; They want me to eat just the tiniest sliver 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 ...
english 10: literary terms for poetry
... In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the deathbed whereon it must expire, Cons ...
... In me thou see’st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death’s second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see’st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the deathbed whereon it must expire, Cons ...
Poetry Analysis: TPFASTT - duPont Manual High School
... difference; with your strong shield, protect me from all the pains of despair; calm my troubled mind; I promise to pay you back if you will do this. You can take from me my soft pillows and bed, my dark and quiet bedroom, the pleasant aroma of calming flowers and my own tired mind; and if these all, ...
... difference; with your strong shield, protect me from all the pains of despair; calm my troubled mind; I promise to pay you back if you will do this. You can take from me my soft pillows and bed, my dark and quiet bedroom, the pleasant aroma of calming flowers and my own tired mind; and if these all, ...
Poetry Terminology 11
... terms you are now responsible for learning. o The new terms are marked with (NT): New Term. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Poem: Words organized in such a way that there is a pattern of rhythm, rhyme and/or meaning. The rela ...
... terms you are now responsible for learning. o The new terms are marked with (NT): New Term. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Poem: Words organized in such a way that there is a pattern of rhythm, rhyme and/or meaning. The rela ...
Poetry Explications
... formal introductory paragraph; the writer should simply start explicating immediately. Here is an example. A student's explication of Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" might begin in the following way: This poem dramatizes the conflict between appearance and reality, particularly as th ...
... formal introductory paragraph; the writer should simply start explicating immediately. Here is an example. A student's explication of Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" might begin in the following way: This poem dramatizes the conflict between appearance and reality, particularly as th ...
Links to the PowerPoint presentation for Poetry
... Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. There are no rules about line length in free verse. You try to keep the words that belong together on the same line, but, sometimes the poet will break these words if he/she wants to create a visual shape to support the poem's message, or fe ...
... Free verse does not have a set pattern of rhyme or rhythm. There are no rules about line length in free verse. You try to keep the words that belong together on the same line, but, sometimes the poet will break these words if he/she wants to create a visual shape to support the poem's message, or fe ...
The Genre of Poetry
... – Poetry places as much importance on the sound, style, and shape of the message as the message itself. – Poetry is less concerned with creating a story, defining characters, or establishing a setting than creating a mood or leaving an impression. – Because poetry is often shorter and more condensed ...
... – Poetry places as much importance on the sound, style, and shape of the message as the message itself. – Poetry is less concerned with creating a story, defining characters, or establishing a setting than creating a mood or leaving an impression. – Because poetry is often shorter and more condensed ...
1 How to Read Poetry
... To be sure, a good deal of stopping mid-line and following around of enjambments is called for to make unforced sense of these lines. You can count on your fingers ten or eleven syllables (or five stresses) in each one, but all you really need do is pay attention to the punctuation and read the line ...
... To be sure, a good deal of stopping mid-line and following around of enjambments is called for to make unforced sense of these lines. You can count on your fingers ten or eleven syllables (or five stresses) in each one, but all you really need do is pay attention to the punctuation and read the line ...
POETRY
... SYMBOLISM When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. ...
... SYMBOLISM When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. ...
Feeling into Words
... How, then, do you find it? In practice, you hear it coming from somebody else, you hear something in another writer’s sounds that flows in through your ear and enters the echo-chamber of your head and delights your whole nervous system in such a way that your reaction will be, ‘Ah, I wish I had said ...
... How, then, do you find it? In practice, you hear it coming from somebody else, you hear something in another writer’s sounds that flows in through your ear and enters the echo-chamber of your head and delights your whole nervous system in such a way that your reaction will be, ‘Ah, I wish I had said ...
senior honors literary terms
... 6. farce – exaggerated comedy; absurd plot, humorous dialogue, puns, mistaken identity 7. hexameter – line of verse containing six metrical feet 8. idyll – a descriptive work in poetry or prose dealing with rustic life or pastoral scenes, suggests a mood of peace and contentment 9. inscape – tone of ...
... 6. farce – exaggerated comedy; absurd plot, humorous dialogue, puns, mistaken identity 7. hexameter – line of verse containing six metrical feet 8. idyll – a descriptive work in poetry or prose dealing with rustic life or pastoral scenes, suggests a mood of peace and contentment 9. inscape – tone of ...
Interactive Poetry Practice
... 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, ...
... 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, ...
Literary Terms: Beowulf
... Epic: Long narrative poem about the deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies or reflects the values of a particular society. Examples: The Odyssey, Beowulf Kenning: In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a two-word or phrase metaphor. Examples: “whale-road” (the sea) and “shepherd of evil” (Grendel) Symbol: So ...
... Epic: Long narrative poem about the deeds of a larger-than-life hero who embodies or reflects the values of a particular society. Examples: The Odyssey, Beowulf Kenning: In Anglo-Saxon poetry, a two-word or phrase metaphor. Examples: “whale-road” (the sea) and “shepherd of evil” (Grendel) Symbol: So ...
rhyme scheme
... 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, ...
... 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: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair sometime declines, ...
Metaphor poem - Net Start Class
... Graphic elements- strengthen the sound or visual appeal of the poem and are the visual features that can influence a poem’s meaning. Punctuation- marks, such as commas, show the reader where to slow down or pause. Line length- can help determine whether a poem has a flowing sound or a short, choppy ...
... Graphic elements- strengthen the sound or visual appeal of the poem and are the visual features that can influence a poem’s meaning. Punctuation- marks, such as commas, show the reader where to slow down or pause. Line length- can help determine whether a poem has a flowing sound or a short, choppy ...
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
... .......The most striking figure of speech in the poem is personification. It dresses the city in a garment and gives it a heart, makes the sun "in his first splendour" a benefactor, and bestows on the river a will of its own. .......Examples of other figures of speech in the poem are as follows: Lin ...
... .......The most striking figure of speech in the poem is personification. It dresses the city in a garment and gives it a heart, makes the sun "in his first splendour" a benefactor, and bestows on the river a will of its own. .......Examples of other figures of speech in the poem are as follows: Lin ...
Welcome to Open House
... freedom, is not free. Free Verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, selfevidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense. Some poets have considered free verse restrictive in its own way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse ...
... freedom, is not free. Free Verse displays some elements of form. Most free verse, for example, selfevidently continues to observe a convention of the poetic line in some sense. Some poets have considered free verse restrictive in its own way. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse ...
IGCSE English Literature Paper 1: Section B (Poetry) Songs of
... 122. Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’ 123. William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ ...
... 122. Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’ 123. William Wordsworth, ‘Sonnet: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ ...
Types of Poetry
... Excerpt from Robert Frost’s “The Mountain” The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed that I missed stars in the west, Where its black body cut into the sky. Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wall Behind which I was sheltered from a wind. And yet b ...
... Excerpt from Robert Frost’s “The Mountain” The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once: I noticed that I missed stars in the west, Where its black body cut into the sky. Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wall Behind which I was sheltered from a wind. And yet b ...
Topographical poetry
Topographical poetry or loco-descriptive poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place. John Denham's 1642 poem ""Cooper's Hill"" established the genre, which peaked in popularity in 18th-century England. Examples of topographical verse date, however, to the late classical period, and can be found throughout the medieval era and during the Renaissance. Though the earliest examples come mostly from continental Europe, the topographical poetry in the tradition originating with Denham concerns itself with the classics, and many of the various types of topographical verse, such as river, ruin, or hilltop poems were established by the early 17th century. Alexander Pope's ""Windsor Forest"" (1713) and John Dyer's ""Grongar Hill' (1762) are two other oft-mentioned examples. More recently, Matthew Arnold's ""The Scholar Gipsy"" (1853) praises the Oxfordshire countryside, and W. H. Auden's ""In Praise of Limestone"" (1948) uses a limestone landscape as an allegory. Subgenres of topographical poetry include the country house poem, written in 17th-century England to compliment a wealthy patron, and the prospect poem, describing the view from a distance or a temporal view into the future, with the sense of opportunity or expectation. When understood broadly as landscape poetry and when assessed from its establishment to the present, topographical poetry can take on many formal situations and types of places. Kenneth Baker identifies 37 varieties and compiles poems from the 16th through the 20th centuries—from Edmund Spenser to Sylvia Plath—correspondent to each type, from ""Walks and Surveys,"" to ""Mountains, Hills, and the View from Above,"" to ""Violation of Nature and the Landscape,"" to ""Spirits and Ghosts.""Common aesthetic registers of which topographical poetry make use include pastoral imagery, the sublime, and the picturesque. These latter two registers subsume imagery of rivers, ruins, moonlight, birdsong, and clouds, peasants, mountains, caves, and waterscapes.