poetry colleen tolle communications wayzata high school
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Poetry
Colleen Tolle
Communications
Wayzata High School
1. Intro to Poetry2. Glossary of terms3. Sounds of poetry A. Rhythm
- feet - meterB. “Lineage” and “The Courage that My Mother Had” C. “Song of the Open Road” and “The Road Not Taken”
4. Poetry ExplicationA. NotesB. Wm Blake Chronology.C. “The Tyger” and “The Lamb”D. “The Fountain”
5. Poetry Analysis and example essayA. NotesB. “Counting the Beats”
6. Forms of Poetry A. Ballad
- ”Bonny Barbara Allan”B. Sonnet
- Petrarch- Shakespeare
7. Poetry examplesA. “Incident in a Rose Garden”B. “The Seven Ages of Man”
8. Poetry Unit Test
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Introductory Example from a poem by Eugene Field
THE GINGHAM DOG AND THE CALICO CAT SIDE BY SIDE ON THE TABLE SAT.
the GINGham DOG and the CAlico CAT
SIDE by SIDE on the TAble SAT
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Foot:
the basic unit of measurement for counting accents in poetry.
***Each foot contains only 2 or 3 syllables.***
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1.Iambic foot: _____ syllables.Emphasis on ______.
Ex) suggestEx)) pretendEx))) Renee
NOUN: Iamb
Types of Feet
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2. Trochaic foot: _____ syllables. Emphasis on _____.
Ex) problemEx)) ratherEx))) Robert
NOUN: Trochee
Types of Feet, continued
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3. Anapestic foot: _____ syllables.
Emphasis on ______.
Ex) interruptEx)) understandEx))) apprehend
NOUN: Anapest
Types of Feet, continued
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4. Dactylic foot: _____ syllables.
Emphasis on ______.
Ex) murmuring Ex)) ruminateEx))) Henderson
NOUN: Dactyl
Types of Feet, continued
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5. Spondaic foot: ______ syllables.
Emphasis on ______.
Ex) SeagullEx)) Penguin
NOUN: Spondee
Types of Feet, continued
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6. Pyrrhic foot: ____ syllables. Emphasis on ______.
Ex) in theEx)) as he
NOUN: Pyrrh
Types of Feet, continued
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7. Amphibrach foot: _____ syllables.
Emphasis on ______.
Ex) whateverEx)) ambitious
NOUN: Amphibrach
Types of Feet, continued
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8. Amphimacer foot: _____ syllables.Emphasis on _______.
Ex) twenty-twoEx)) underfed
NOUN: Amphimacer
Types of Feet, continued
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Meter: Is the number of feet in a line of poetry.
Infinite number of feet possible for a line of poetry, but traditionally stops at eight.
1. monometer = a line of poetry with only one foot
2. dimeter = a line with two feet3. trimeter = a line with three feet
4. tetrameter =a line with four feet
5. pentameter = a line with five feet (Shakespeare's favorite)
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6. Hexameter =a line with six feet (popular in French poetry) 7. Heptameter = a line with seven feet
8. Octameter =a line with eight feet
Meter cont.
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Thus I
Pass by
And die. Robert Herrick
Summers
Blend their
Colors
Rarely.Jessie Jones
Monometer
When the dark
Of a spring
Interrupts,*
There is one
Who will serve. Jessie Jones
*Note: words like “interrupts” may reflect different feet depending oncontext.
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Money
Workers earn it.
Spendthrifts burn it.Bankers lend it.Women spend it.Forgers fake it.Taxes take it.Dying leave it.
Heirs receive it. Thrifty save it. Misers crave it.
Robbers seize it. Rich increase it. Gamblers lose it.
I could use it. Richard
Armour
Somersaults acrobats
Fly in their leotards
Over the murmuring
Summertime crowds. Unknown
Dimeter
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The idle life I lead
Is like a pleasant sleep,
Wherein I rest and heed
The dreams that by me sweep.
Robert Bridges
Trimeter
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Tetrameter
The hills, the meadows, and the lakes,
Enchant not for their own sweet sakes.
They cannot know, they cannot care
To know that they are thought so fair.Unknown
The grave's a fine and quiet place,
But none I think do there embrace. Andrew Marvell
NOTE: Tetrameter was used widely in the writing of plays
in England before writers like Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare made iambic pentameter the
standard meter in theater.
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True wit is Nature to advantage dressed.
What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read,
With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
Pentameter
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Hexameter
From "The Eve of St. Agnes"
To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.
John Keats
NOTE: Keats wrote "The Eve of St. Agnes" using Spenserian stanzas. Each stanza ends with a line in hexameter. The stanza is called "Spenserian" because it was invented by Edmund Spenser in the 16th century for his poem "The Faerie Queene."
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From “Casey at the Bat” It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville nine that day.
The score stood four to six with but an inning left to play.
And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same,
A pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the game.Ernest Lawrence Thayer
NOTE: This meter was very popular in early 16th century England and remains usually comic in tone.
Heptameter
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Octameter
From “The Raven”
Once upon a midnight dreary while I pondered weak and weary
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Edgar Allen Poe
NOTE: The internal rhyme at the caesura (a natural pause or break) in lines three and four.
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Poetry Explication—the study of poetry
Step I. Examine the situation of the poem.
StoryEmotion or moodSpeakerTone
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Poetry Explication—the study of poetry
Step II. Examine the structure of the poem.Form of poemMovement of images and ideas—
chronological, cause/effect, free association, circular
Syntax of sentences, parts of speechPunctuation of lines—end-stopped line or
enjambmentTitle of poem
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Poetry Explication—the study of poetry
Step III. Examine the language of the poem.
DictionConnotationsAllusionsImageryFigurative language
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Poetry Explication—the study of poetry
Step IV. Examine the sound of the poem.
Rhyme scheme—ir/regular rhyme, in/formal rhyme scheme, relation to mood
Rhythm/Meter and its tonal effectPoetic devices for sound—
alliteration, assonance, consonance
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Poetry Analysis—the essay
Paragraph I. (Not a formal introductory
paragraph)Describe the conflicts in the poem
and the dramatic situation—who, what when, where, why.
“This poem dramatizes the conflict between . . .”
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Paragraph IIExpand the discussion of the conflict. Explain the poem, line by line, in
terms of the poem’s form, rhetoric, syntax, and vocabulary.
Paragraph IIIIncorporate important elements of
rhyme, rhythm, and meter.
Poetry Analysis—the essay
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Paragraph FinalNo formal concluding paragraphDo not simply restate ideas from introduction.Focus on sound effects or visual patterns from
poem to reinforce conflict.Points to considerRefer to the speaking voice in the poem as “the
speaker” or “the poet,” not by the poet’s name. Use present tense verbs throughout the analysis.
The poem continues to exist even if the poet does not!
Poetry Analysis—the essay
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Instructions: Poetry Rhythm Quiz
Write down Foot/Meter Bank. (no symbols)
Write down each line of poetry.
Scan each line of poetry. (symbols + dividers)
At end of each line of poetry, write the corresponding foot and meter.
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Poetry Rhythm Quiz Bank: Feet & Meters
IambicTrochaicAnapesticDactylicSpondaicPyrrhicAmphibrachAmphimacer
MonometerDimeterTrimeterTetrameterPentameterHexameterHeptameterOctameter
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QUIZ 1: Poetry Rhythm
1. I saw eternity the other night.
2. When silent I so many thousand, thousand years.
3. To fight aloud is very brave
4. Death, be not proud, though some have callèd thee.
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Quiz 2: Poetry Rhythm
1. Play, Phoebus, on thy lute,And we will all sit mute.
2. In Xanadu, did Kubla-Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree:
3. She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless climes and starry skies.
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Quiz 3: Poetry Rhythm Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.Sonnet 18, William Shakespeare
Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me.
Because I Could Not Stop for Death, Emily Dickinson
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?
Tyger! Tyger!, William Blake
But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening, Robert Frost 34