poetry - Dementia Arts
... when the session leader recites a line of poetry and then has the group echo back the words. It is a technique I have used in working with everyone from preschool children to 100-year old elders. I have used it with large groups and one-on-one in the home. A majority of the lessons in this book incl ...
... when the session leader recites a line of poetry and then has the group echo back the words. It is a technique I have used in working with everyone from preschool children to 100-year old elders. I have used it with large groups and one-on-one in the home. A majority of the lessons in this book incl ...
Two Haiku - Lesson Corner
... enjoys worldwide popularity. The simple expressive style attracts people. Haiku’s most modern form does not include any metaphors or other literary devices. All description should be clear, explicit, and unambiguous. Finally, the poem should have two parts, the first part puts forth a pair of seemin ...
... enjoys worldwide popularity. The simple expressive style attracts people. Haiku’s most modern form does not include any metaphors or other literary devices. All description should be clear, explicit, and unambiguous. Finally, the poem should have two parts, the first part puts forth a pair of seemin ...
how to write a sonnet
... • You will notice that many sonnets have some irregularities in the meter. • Perhaps one of the feet might have the strong syllable first or even two strong syllables. • For instance, “Bare ruined choirs” would probably not be read pronouncing “bare” as a weak syllable. • This is nothing to worry ab ...
... • You will notice that many sonnets have some irregularities in the meter. • Perhaps one of the feet might have the strong syllable first or even two strong syllables. • For instance, “Bare ruined choirs” would probably not be read pronouncing “bare” as a weak syllable. • This is nothing to worry ab ...
12 Writing about Poetry
... 12 WRITING ABOUT POETRY What is poetry? The most ancient forms of literature were oral rather than written, and they were poems. Songs are the oldest genre of literary creation, and poetry originated from songs of oral traditions around the world. Many consider poetry the most challenging of literar ...
... 12 WRITING ABOUT POETRY What is poetry? The most ancient forms of literature were oral rather than written, and they were poems. Songs are the oldest genre of literary creation, and poetry originated from songs of oral traditions around the world. Many consider poetry the most challenging of literar ...
Gale Virtual Reference Library - Document
... between the two roads to make one stand out as the obvious choice. But it is the nature of life that choosing cannot be avoided. The only way to approach such a dilemma, the poem implies, is to study all of the details until something makes one direction more important than the other. The difference ...
... between the two roads to make one stand out as the obvious choice. But it is the nature of life that choosing cannot be avoided. The only way to approach such a dilemma, the poem implies, is to study all of the details until something makes one direction more important than the other. The difference ...
Songs about Saint Petersburg by Sergei Slonimsky. On the Question
... ring composition, which gives the poem an inner harmony and completeness. In terms of phonetic, syntactic and composition aspects of the poem the verbal refrain “White night” in the beginning of the third line of each stanza plays a big role. This anaphora creates a structurally meaningful core of t ...
... ring composition, which gives the poem an inner harmony and completeness. In terms of phonetic, syntactic and composition aspects of the poem the verbal refrain “White night” in the beginning of the third line of each stanza plays a big role. This anaphora creates a structurally meaningful core of t ...
Wiser for the Time: A collection of Poetry and Short Fiction
... When I sat down to write it I had no intention of writing a four page poem, but that is how it wrote itself. It had to be this long because my affair with the art form has been a long one, almost twenty years. Omitting something would somehow prioritize some of my memories as more important or signi ...
... When I sat down to write it I had no intention of writing a four page poem, but that is how it wrote itself. It had to be this long because my affair with the art form has been a long one, almost twenty years. Omitting something would somehow prioritize some of my memories as more important or signi ...
Winter 2014 271 Beginning Packet
... musical rhythm called iambic pentameter. In addition, these fourteen lines have to conform to a specific rhyme scheme. Don’t be confused or put off by the term iambic pentameter. An iamb is simply a twosyllable unit of sound where the first syllable is unaccented and the second is accented. Words li ...
... musical rhythm called iambic pentameter. In addition, these fourteen lines have to conform to a specific rhyme scheme. Don’t be confused or put off by the term iambic pentameter. An iamb is simply a twosyllable unit of sound where the first syllable is unaccented and the second is accented. Words li ...
Document
... analysis, but biographical information provided the practical assistance of underscoring subtle but important meanings in the poems. Though many literary theorists have assailed biographical criticism on philosophical grounds, the biographical approach to literature has never disappeared because of ...
... analysis, but biographical information provided the practical assistance of underscoring subtle but important meanings in the poems. Though many literary theorists have assailed biographical criticism on philosophical grounds, the biographical approach to literature has never disappeared because of ...
The Epic Elements in Yeats`s Poetry
... being Ireland’s epic poet and not only its Homer, but its Sophocles and its Sappho as well” (14) in “Introduction: W. B. Yeats’s Poems.” In fact, a reading of Yeats’s book of poems and some individual poems leads us to see that the they are based upon the poet’s epic imagination, which was heavily i ...
... being Ireland’s epic poet and not only its Homer, but its Sophocles and its Sappho as well” (14) in “Introduction: W. B. Yeats’s Poems.” In fact, a reading of Yeats’s book of poems and some individual poems leads us to see that the they are based upon the poet’s epic imagination, which was heavily i ...
poetry - Universitas Brawijaya
... entertains as well as teaches about human life are also embedded in other genres. Some definitions of poem are provided by some poets such as William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mathew Arnold says that “Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mo ...
... entertains as well as teaches about human life are also embedded in other genres. Some definitions of poem are provided by some poets such as William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mathew Arnold says that “Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mo ...
Vendler, Helen H. - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
... poetry they provide a crucial ground to the assertions of value carried by images and words. And, since a short poem is in fact a single complex word in which all individual components are bound together in an inalterable relational syntax, there is, strictly speaking, nothing that does not become a ...
... poetry they provide a crucial ground to the assertions of value carried by images and words. And, since a short poem is in fact a single complex word in which all individual components are bound together in an inalterable relational syntax, there is, strictly speaking, nothing that does not become a ...
Kate Reed
... lyricism of ghazal, to the liberation of free verse, in which the artist constructs a whole new vase for his/herself. The form of a poem is how the poem interacts with its audience; it is the ...
... lyricism of ghazal, to the liberation of free verse, in which the artist constructs a whole new vase for his/herself. The form of a poem is how the poem interacts with its audience; it is the ...
Text Analysis pg1
... In a figure of speech, words are used in an imaginative way to communicate meaning beyond their strict definition. Figures of speech include • Similes, which use like or as to compare two unlike things. For example: The frozen lake is like glass. • Metaphors, which make comparisons without the words ...
... In a figure of speech, words are used in an imaginative way to communicate meaning beyond their strict definition. Figures of speech include • Similes, which use like or as to compare two unlike things. For example: The frozen lake is like glass. • Metaphors, which make comparisons without the words ...
And life for me ain`t been no crystal stair.
... How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, ...
... How should we like it were stars to burn With a passion for us we could not return? If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me. Admirer as I think I am Of stars that do not give a damn, I cannot, now I see them, say I missed one terribly all day. Were all stars to disappear or die, ...
Rhythm
... fifteenth century, poets have written less often for singers, more often for readers. In general, this tendency has made lyric poems contain less word-music and (since they can be pondered on a page) more thought— and perhaps more complicated feelings. Here is a rough definition of a lyric as it is ...
... fifteenth century, poets have written less often for singers, more often for readers. In general, this tendency has made lyric poems contain less word-music and (since they can be pondered on a page) more thought— and perhaps more complicated feelings. Here is a rough definition of a lyric as it is ...
i, Poet: Automatic Poetry Composition through Recurrent
... announce proudly: “I, a poet”. To design the automatic poetry composition schema, we first need to empirically study the generation criteria. We discuss some of the general generation standards here. Unlike narratives which follow less strict rules and restrictions, a classical poem has certain gene ...
... announce proudly: “I, a poet”. To design the automatic poetry composition schema, we first need to empirically study the generation criteria. We discuss some of the general generation standards here. Unlike narratives which follow less strict rules and restrictions, a classical poem has certain gene ...
Poetry For Dummies - University of Houston
... This poem has the reader feeling a mood of sadness at the loss of the beloved captain. The author really expresses his confusion of not knowing what to do now that he has realized his leader is dead on the deck. The reader feels sorrow and sadness for the author. We want to help this mate, but we to ...
... This poem has the reader feeling a mood of sadness at the loss of the beloved captain. The author really expresses his confusion of not knowing what to do now that he has realized his leader is dead on the deck. The reader feels sorrow and sadness for the author. We want to help this mate, but we to ...
My Papa`s Waltz
... Free Verse: poem has no pattern of rhyme or rhythm Speaker: voice of poem; it may be the poet or a character he or she creates Tone: writer’s attitude toward subject. Is he serious, sarcastic or playful? How does the writer feel about his subject? What is his purpose for the poem? Mood: the feeling ...
... Free Verse: poem has no pattern of rhyme or rhythm Speaker: voice of poem; it may be the poet or a character he or she creates Tone: writer’s attitude toward subject. Is he serious, sarcastic or playful? How does the writer feel about his subject? What is his purpose for the poem? Mood: the feeling ...
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old
... • Worse, the gas attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucus membrane. • The pain was almost beyond endurance and most victims had to be strapped to their beds. • Death took up to four or five weeks. ...
... • Worse, the gas attacked the bronchial tubes, stripping off the mucus membrane. • The pain was almost beyond endurance and most victims had to be strapped to their beds. • Death took up to four or five weeks. ...
1. Basic Terms syntax
... small as the word but or yet. Such words often act like hinges within a poem to swing the poem in a whole new direction. Also pay attention to breaks between stanzas or between lines. Ask: “What has changed and what does the change mean?” • Consider form and function. Now is a good time to look at s ...
... small as the word but or yet. Such words often act like hinges within a poem to swing the poem in a whole new direction. Also pay attention to breaks between stanzas or between lines. Ask: “What has changed and what does the change mean?” • Consider form and function. Now is a good time to look at s ...
Poetry Jeopardy - ms
... And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And ...
... And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And ...
Reading, Writing and Reciting Poetry
... private experience of his own. The reader's interpretation may differ from the author's and be equally valid-- it may even be better. There may be much more in a poem than the author was aware of. The different interpretations may all be partial formulations of one thing; the ambiguities may be due ...
... private experience of his own. The reader's interpretation may differ from the author's and be equally valid-- it may even be better. There may be much more in a poem than the author was aware of. The different interpretations may all be partial formulations of one thing; the ambiguities may be due ...
glossary of literary terms
... (P) ASSONANCE The repetition of a similar vowel sound, especially in poetry. Assonance creates a musical effect and emphasizes certain sounds to create a mood. Here is an example of assonance from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”: From the molten golden notes AUTOBIOGRAPHY A person’s account of his or ...
... (P) ASSONANCE The repetition of a similar vowel sound, especially in poetry. Assonance creates a musical effect and emphasizes certain sounds to create a mood. Here is an example of assonance from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Bells”: From the molten golden notes AUTOBIOGRAPHY A person’s account of his or ...