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The Rose That Grew From Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grewfrom a crack in the concrete?Proving nature's law is wrong itlearned to walk with out having feet.Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams,it learned to breathe fresh air.Long live the rose that grew from concretewhen no one else ever cared.
Tupak
"Viva La Vida"
I used to rule the worldSeas would rise when I gave the wordNow in the morning I sleep aloneSweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the diceFeel the fear in my enemy's eyesListen as the crowd would sing"Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"
One minute I held the keyNext the walls were closed on meAnd I discovered that my castles standUpon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringingRoman Cavalry choirs are singingBe my mirror, my sword and shieldMy missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explainOnce you go there was neverNever an honest wordAnd that was when I ruled the world
It was the wicked and wild windBlew down the doors to let me inShattered windows and the sound of drumsPeople couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries waitFor my head on a silver plateJust a puppet on a lonely stringOh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringingRoman Cavalry choirs are singingBe my mirror, my sword and shieldMy missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explainI know Saint Peter won't call my nameNever an honest wordBut that was when I ruled the world
I hear Jerusalem bells are ringingRoman Cavalry choirs are singingBe my mirror, my sword and shieldMy missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explainI know Saint Peter won't call my nameNever an honest wordBut that was when I ruled the world
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afem9mLcJ14Poetry.ppt
POETRY
POETRYA type of
literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY
POETThe poet is the writer of the poem.
SPEAKERThe speaker of the poem is the voice of the poem.
POETRY FORM FORM - the
appearance of the words on the page
LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem
STANZA - a group of lines arranged together
A word is dead When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just Begins to live
That day.
THE SOUNDS OF POETRY
RHYTHM The beat created
by the sounds of the words in a poem
Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
METER
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
RHYME
Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
END RHYME A word at the end of one line
rhymes with a word at the end of another line:
Hector the Collector collected bits of string. Collected dolls with broken heads
And rusty bells that would not ring.
RHYME SCHEME A rhyme scheme is a pattern of
rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example.)
SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME
The Germ by Ogden Nash
A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ.
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REFRAIN/REPETITION
A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem. “Quoth the
raven, ‘Nevermore.’”
ALLITERATIONConsonant sounds repeated at
the beginnings of words If Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
ONOMATOPOEIA Words that imitate the sound they are
naming BUZZ
OR sounds that imitate another sound
“The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain . . .”
Onomatopoeia Eve Merriam
The rusty spigot
sputters, utters
a splutter, spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider; slash,
splatters, scatters, spurts,
finally stops sputtering and splash!
gushes rushes splashes clear water dashes.
SOUND DEVICE CHART
RHYME/REPETITION/RHYTHM/ALLITERATION/ONOMATOPOEIA
FIGURATIVELANGUAGE
SIMILE
A comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as”
Ex: “She is as beautiful as a sunrise.”
METAPHOR
A direct comparison of two unlike things
Ex: “All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players.”
- William Shakespeare
EXTENDED METAPHORA metaphor that goes on for several lines or possible the entire length of a work.
ANALYSIS CHART
COMPARISONS/MEANING/IMPACT
HYPERBOLE
Hyperbole is a form of figurative language. It is an exaggeration or overstatement intended to produce an effect without being taken literally.
Examples: “I studied for 500 hours and still failed the test!” or “I’ve told you a million times not to exaggerate.”
HYPERBOLE
Hyperbole is often confused with a simile or metaphor because it often compares two objects. The difference is that hyperbole is an exaggeration. An example would be: “His feet were as large as barges.” It looks like a simile and is comparing foot size to the size of a barge. Instead it is a hyperbole due to the exaggeration used.
HYPERBOLE EXERCISE Copy the hyperbole. Then write its literal meaning.
1. I nearly died laughing.
2. Mary tried a thousand times to play the piano.
3. I could sleep for a year.
4. Grant was hopping mad.
5. This box weighs a ton.
6. I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.
HYPERBOLE
7. I really screamed my lungs out at the game last night.
8. Sasha sang her heart out! Complete the following hyperboles. The teacher was so wonderful that ___________. The class was so boring that ____________.
HYPERBOLE
HYPERBOLE MARATHON Write as many hyperboles as you can!
IDIOMAn expression where the literal
meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says.
Ex: “It’s raining cats and dogs.”
PERSONIFICATION
An animal, object, or idea is given human-like or life-like qualities.
EX: from “Ninki”by Shirley Jackson
“Ninki was by this time irritated beyond belief by the general air of incompetence exhibited in the kitchen, and she went into the living room and got Shax, who is extraordinarily lazy and never catches his own chipmunks, but who is, at least, a cat, and preferable, Ninki saw clearly, to a man with a gun.
OTHERPOETIC DEVICES
IMAGERY
Language that appeals to the senses.
Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell.
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather . . .
from “Those Winter Sundays”
SYMBOLISM
Often used in poetry A person, place, thing, or event
that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else.
= Innocence
= America
= Peace
ALLUSION
Allusion comes from the verb “allude” which means “to refer to”
An allusion is a reference to something famous.
A tunnel walled and overlaid
With dazzling crystal: we had read
Of rare Aladdin’s wondrous cave,
And to our own his name we gave.
From “Snowbound”
John Greenleaf Whittier
TYPES OF POETRY
IMAGERY POEMS
Draw the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which the reader already knows.
The use of the five senses in this type of poetry serves to intensify the impact of the work.
Imagery Poem ExampleThe Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens.
Imagery Poem
See / Touch / Smell / Hear / Taste
FREE VERSE Unlike metered
poetry, free verse poetry does NOT have any repeating patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Does NOT have rhyme.
Free verse poetry is very conversational - sounds like someone talking with you.
A more modern type of poetry.
Free Verse Example
Song of Myself (excerpt)by Walt Whitman
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loaf and invite my soul,I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
LYRIC POEMS
Usually written in first person point of view
Express the thoughts and feelings of the poet
Often have a musical quality
Lyric Example
I Felt a Funeral in my Brain (excerpt)
By Emily DickinsonI felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -
And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum –
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My Mind was going numb
COUPLET
A stanza of only two lines which usually rhyme.
Shakespearean (also called Elizabethan and English) sonnets usually end in a couplet and are a pair of lines that are the same length and usually rhyme and form a complete thought.
Couplet Example
By Shakespeare: (two excerpt form his sonnets)
Blessed are you whose worthiness gives scope,
Being had, to triumph; being lacked, to hope.
You still shall live, such virtue hath my pen,
Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
HAIKU
A Japanese poem written in three lines
Five SyllablesSeven SyllablesFive Syllables
An old silent pond . . .
A frog jumps into the pond.
Splash! Silence again.
SHAKESPEAREAN SONNET
A fourteen line poem with a specific rhyme scheme.
The poem is written in three quatrains and ends with a couplet.
The rhyme scheme isabab cdcd efef gg
Sonnet Example
Shakespeare:
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.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
NARRATIVE POEMS
A poem that tells a story.
Generally longer than the lyric styles of poetry b/c the poet needs to establish characters and a plot.
Example of Narrative Poem
Annabel Lee (excerpt)
By Edgar Allan Poe
It was many and many a year ago,In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may knowBy the name of ANNABEL LEE;And this maiden she lived with no other thoughtThan to love and be loved by me.
CONCRETE POEMS
In concrete poems, the words are arranged to create a picture that relates to the content of the poem.
PoetryIs like
Flames,Which are
Swift and elusiveDodging realization
Sparks, like words on thePaper, leap and dance in theFlickering firelight. The fiery
Tongues, formless and shiftingShapes, tease the imagination.
Yet for those who see,Through their mind’s
Eye, they burnUp the page.
Example of Concrete Poetry
Is like Flames,Which are
Swift and elusiveDodging realization
Sparks, like words on thePaper, leap and dance in theFlickering firelight. The fiery
Tongues, formless and shiftingShapes, tease the imagination.
Yet for those who see,Through their mind’s
Eye, they burnUp the page.
CONCRETE
DIAMANTE
A seven-line, diamond-shaped poem which contrasts two opposites. It is more a visual poem than one to be read aloud. Students can illustrate their final copies to produce an art piece. It follows this format:
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DIAMANTE FORM:
First Line and seventh line - Name the opposites.
Second and sixth lines - Two adjectives describing the opposite nearest it.
Third and fifth lines - Three participles (ing words) describing the nearest opposite.
Fourth line - two nouns (if possible) for each of the opposites. (This is the transition point where the poem changes from one of the opposites to the other.)
Peaks,Snowcapped, windswept,
Reaching, waiting, challenging mountain ranges, ocean trenches,
Obscuring, waiting, daunting Dark, black
Depths.
CINQUAIN
A short, five-line, non-rhyming poem which follows this format:
1st line - The title (one word) 2nd line - Describes the title (two words) 3rd line - Express action (three words) 4th line - A feeling or thought (four words) 5th line - A synonym for the title or a word close in meaning to it.
CINQUAIN EXAMPLE
Remo
black, sleek
running, leaping, chasing
loving, warm, fierce, frightened
Whippet
Quatrain
Always has four lines.
Rhymes in one of four ways.
Poets use letters to show the pattern of rhyme. The four types of rhyme for a quatrain are: AABB, ABAB, ABBA, and ABCB.
Examples of Quatrain (aabb)
Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? -From William Blake's "The Tyger"
Examples of Quatrain (abab)
My wings shall ride the silken morn,
Covering the silent sunlit sky,
Under Cancer and Capricorn,
Flying where no bird can fly.
- From Ryter Roethicle’s “My Wings”