exploring poetry
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Exploring poetry. Universitas Singaperbangsa Karawang Anisa Risatyah,S.Pd. Outline. Review : 1 . types of poetry 2. Voice 3. Diction 4. Imagery 5. Figurative language 6. Symbolism. 1. Types of poetry. Poetry can be grouped into narrative and lyric poetry - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Exploring poetry
Universitas Singaperbangsa KarawangAnisa Risatyah,S.Pd
Outline
• Review :1. types of poetry
2. Voice3. Diction4. Imagery5. Figurative language6. Symbolism
1. Types of poetry
• Poetry can be grouped into narrative and lyric poetry
• Narrative poetry: tell stories and describe actionse.g. - Epics (long narrative poems that record the adventures of a hero whose exploits are important to the history of a nation- ballads- romance
1. Types of poetry (cont.)
• Lyric poetry focuses more on the emotion. • Lyrics an be defined as subjective poems, often
brief, expresses the feelings and thoughts of a single speaker (who may or may not represent the poet).
• E.g. - Epigram (a brief witty poem that is often satirical)- Ode (a long stately poem in stanzas of varied
length, meter, and form)- Aubade (a love lyric expressing complaint that
the speaker must part from his lover)- Sonnet (a lyric poem consists of fourteen lines)
2. Voice and tone• The speaker’s voice conveys tone • Tone is an abstraction we make from
the datails of a poem’s language: meter, diction, imagery, figures of speech.
• Listen to a poem’s language, hear the voice of its speaker -> we catch the tone and feeling and meaning
• What is the tone in Wordsworth’s I wandered lonely as a cloud?
3. Diction
• Words choice• To understand not only the words’
meaning but also understand what the words imply or suggest.
• Words have both denotation (dictionary meaning) and connotation (association meaning, implied meaning).
• William Wordsworth’s I wandered lonely as a cloud.
William Wordsworth’s I wandered lonely as
a cloud
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.
*Golden (adj) : made of gold, the colour of gold
connotation meaning: light (it shines and glitters), wealth (money and fortune)
4. Imagery
• Images are words or phrases that appeal to our senses.
• Imagery refers to the combinations or clusters of images that are used to create a dominant impression.
• Imagery may be visual (something seen)aural (something heard)tactile (something felt)Olfactory (something smelled)Gustatory (something tasted)
Thomas Hardy’s Neutral Tones
We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
-- They had fallen from an ash, and were gray
5. Figurative Language
Any use of language which deviates from the obvious or common usage in order to achieve a special meaning or effect.
e.g. simile, metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, personification, hyperbole, euphemism, etc.
Simile • Figure of speech in which
a comparison between two distinctly different things is indicated by the words ‘like’ , ‘as’, or ‘than’
• 3 elements: tenor, vehicle, ground
Life is like a rollercoaster
Tenor (subject) : life
Vehicle (comparison): rollercoaster
Ground (tenor + vehicle have in common) : it has its ups and downs
Metaphor
• Implied comparison which creates a total identification between the two things being compared.
• 3 elements: tenor, vehicle, ground.
e.g. Life is a rollercoaster
Tenor?
Vehicle?
Ground?
Metonymy
• Greek: a change of name• Term for one thing is
applied to another which it has become closely associated.
e.g. crown refers to a king
the White House refers to official Washington home for the President/ the American government itself
Synecdoche
• Greek: taking together• A part of something is
used to signify the whole, or vice versa.
e.g. Many hands make light work (proverb)
I am reading Dickens
Personification
• A form of comparison in which human characteristics, such as emotion, personality, behaviour, and so on, are attributed to animal, object, or idea.
• Is intended to make ideas clearer to the readers by comparing the object to everyday human experience.
e.g.?
Hyperbole
• A figure of speech which employ exaggeration, extreme, or excessive.
• E.g. ?
6. SymbolismA symbol is any object or action that means more than itself, any object or action that represents something beyond itself.
e.g. rose : beauty, love tree : family’s root and branches
soaring bird : freedom light : hope, knowledge, life
Cultural or shared symbols
• are widely recognized and accepted
• are needed careful examination
e.g. Dawn = hope
white = innocence
dark = ignorance
light = knowledge
Literary or personal symbols
• Authors’ own original symbols
• Do not have pre-established associations : the meaning emerges from the context
First assignment• Format- Times New Roman, 12, double space, A4, normal
margin.- Tittle : First Assignment – Exploring Poetry
An analysis on (poem’s tittle) by: (names of group)
• Due date and time- Submit the assignment via e-mail before or on the
agreed due date and time- Late submission will not be accepted- Any plagiarism/ copy-pasted assignment results on zero
score. No revision.