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Introduction to
Poetry
"Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and
wonder, with a dash of the dictionary. "
--Kahlil Gibran
Today’s Learning Objectives:
Types of Poetry
Elements of Poetry
Narrative
Speaker
Rhyme & Rhythm
Lyric
Dramatic
Sound Devices
Figurative Language
"To have great poets there must be great
audiences too."
--Walt Whitman
Verse that tells a story.
First two stanzas of poem…
The whole idea of it makes me feel
like I'm coming down with something,
something worse than any stomach ache
or the headaches I get from reading in bad light-a kind of measles of the spirit,
a mumps of the psyche,
a disfiguring chicken pox of the soul.
You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is because you have forgotten
the perfect simplicity of being one
and the beautiful complexity introduced by two.
But I can lie on my bed and remember every digit.
At four I was an Arabian wizard.
I could make myself invisible
by drinking a glass of milk a certain way.
At seven I was a soldier, at nine a prince.
Example:
On Turning Ten
By Billy Collins
Expresses the personal thoughts
and feelings of the speaker.
Example:
maggie and milly and molly and may
by e.e. cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
for whatever we lose (like a you or me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea
Usually has one or more characters who
speak to other characters, to themselves,
or to the reader.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Example:
This is Just to Say
By William Carlos Williams
" Poetry is the music of the soul, and,
above all, of great and feeling souls."
-- Voltaire
Every poem has a speaker, or
voice, that talks to the reader.
The speaker is not necessarily the
poet. It can be a fictional person,
an animal, or a thing.
The speaker is like a
narrator in prose.
A line is a word or row
of words that may or
may not form a
complete sentence.
A stanza is a group of
lines forming a unit.
The stanzas in a poem
are separated by a
space.
•Couplet: two-line stanza
•Triplet: three-line stanza
•Quatrain: four-line stanza
•Quintet: five-line stanza
•Sestet: six-line stanza
•Septet: seven-line stanza
•Octave: eight-line stanza
•Rhythm is the pattern
of sound created by
the arrangement of
stressed and
unstressed syllables in
a line. Rhythm can be
regular or irregular.
MOST COMMON:
•Iambic: an unstressed followed
by a stressed syllable (repeat)
•Anapestic: two unstressed
followed by a stressed syllable
(interrupt)
•Rhyme is the repetition of the same
stressed vowel sound and any
succeeding sounds in two or more
words.
•Internal rhyme occurs within a line
of poetry.
•End rhyme occurs at the ends of
lines.
• Rhyme scheme is the pattern of the
end rhymes.
•(ABAB, AABB,
AAAA/BBBB…)
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Sonnet XVIII: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
1Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
2Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
3Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
4And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
5Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
6And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
7And every fair from fair sometime declines,
8By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
9But thy eternal summer shall not fade
10Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
11Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
12When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
13So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?
ABAB
13So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
14So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
What does Shakespeare end with?
A rhymed couplet
•Alliteration is the repetition of
consonant sounds at the beginnings of
words.
•Assonance is the repetition of vowel
sounds within a line of poetry.
•Onomatopoeia is the use of a word or
phrase that imitates or suggests the
sound of what it describes.
•Consonance is the repetition of
consonant sounds. Although it is
similar to alliteration, consonance is not
limited to the first letters of words.
The horse gracefully galloped across the pasture.
The sassy students smiled sweetly at the teacher.
Can you think of one on your own?
Creak…
Squish
HISS
BANG!
Buzz
Can you think of one on your own?
Just now the lilac is in bloom,
All before my little room ;
And in my flower-beds, I think,
Smile the carnation and the pink ;
And down the borders, well I know,
The poppy and the pansy blow . . .
Oh ! there the chestnuts, summer through,
Beside the river make for you
A tunnel of green gloom, and sleep
Deeply above ; and green and deep
The stream mysterious glides beneath,
Green as a dream and deep as death.
Examples from:
First Half of First Stanza of:
The Old Vicarage,
Grantchester
(Café des Westens, Berlin, May 1912)
by Rupert Brooke
Another Example of Consonance:
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
(First part of
first stanza…)
Through granites which titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Strange
Meeting
Lifting distressful hands as if to bless.
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall,
By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
With a thousand pains that vision’s face was grained;
Yet no blood reached there from the upper ground,
And no guns thumped, or down the flues made moan.
"Strange friend," I said, "here is no cause to mourn."
by Wilfred
Owen
Descriptive language that appeals to
the senses--sight, sound, touch, taste,
or smell. Some images appeal to
more than one sense.
•A figure of speech is a word or expression that is not meant to be
read literally.
•A simile is a figure of speech using a word such as like or as
to compare seemingly unlike things.
•A metaphor also compares or equates seemingly unlike
things, but does not use like or as.
•Personification gives human characteristics to an animal,
object, or idea.
•Hyperbole refers to over exaggerations, such as to “wait for
an eternity” or to be “starving for dinner”.
Her smile was like the sunshine, emitting rays of warmth.
His eyes were as blue as the sky and as deep as an ocean.
Can you think of one on your own?
My boss is an angry sergeant who orders
everyone in his sight around constantly!
The vampire’s teeth were daggers, sinking
greedily into the neck of his prey.
Can you think of one on your own?
Two Sunflowers
Move in the Yellow Room.
Can
you
think of
one on
your
own?
"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.
William Blake
(1757-1827)
"It was so cold, even the polar bears were wearing jackets."
"My best friend is so forgetful, I sometimes have to remind her
what her name is!"
Can you think of one on your own?
In Conclusion…
We don't read and write poetry because it's
cute. We read and write poetry because we
are members of the human race. And the
human race is filled with passion. And
medicine, law, business, engineering, these
are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain
life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these
are what we stay alive for.
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