what is poetry
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WHAT IS POETRY. …..words arranged in a RYTHMIC pattern with regular ACCENTS (like BEATS in music). …words carefully selected for sound, accent, and meaning…to express IMAGINATIVELY ideas. . . . In one way EVERYONE Uses poetry when He speaks or writes With Words that create - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WHAT IS POETRY
…..words arranged in a
RYTHMIC pattern with
regular ACCENTS
(like BEATS in music)
…words carefully selected for sound, accent, and meaning…to express IMAGINATIVELY ideas
. . . In one wayEVERYONE
Uses poetry whenHe speaks or writes
WithWords that create
IMAGES, such as. . .
IN CONVERSATION. . .
“I’ve come to the end of my own rope
In Songs. . . “L-O-V-E is a MANY
SPLENDORED THING”
In Speeches. . .
“A Nation Concieved in
Liberty—”
. . .BUT A POET Is a person more
EndowedWith imagination who
Tries to express an idea with words that
Give it FORM and BEAUTY--
-Looking at the same thing
What do I see?
A BIG TREE AND ITS GETTING
DARK!
I SEE ADARK
HAND ISTEARING
THEVAULT OF
NIGHT
Each poem has:
•RHYTHM•MELODY•IMAGERY•FORM
And POETRY has a “LANGUAGE” all its own…
EACH POEM has a RHYTHMCalled a “METRIC PATTERN”
(except in free verse) That is, the ACCENTS of theSyllables in the
Words fall at regularIntervals, like theBEAT of MUSIC
EACH POEM ALSO HAS“MELODY”. . . .
LIKE MUSIC, EACH POEM HAS
MELODY(I.E. SOUND DEVICES)
OF WHICH THE PRINCIPLE ONE IS. . .
Rhyme—that is- where two words haveThe SAME SOUND on their last accented vowelPreceded by DIFFERENT consonants.
EXAMPLE: dame and same
SINGLE RHYME
DOUBLERHYME
TRIPLERHYME
LOVE
Dove
Rapping
Tapping
Mournfully
Scornfully
OTHER RHYMING TERMS:
IMPERFECT RHYMEtwo words that look alike, but
don’tsound alikeExample: LOVE and JOVE
INTERNAL RHYMEthe rhyme occurs inside a single
line of poetryExample: “Let’s beat the heat.”
…besides rhyme, poets also use these
OTHER SOUND EFFECTS-
ASSONANCE- resemblance of vowel sounds in
wordsExample: “O harp and altar, of the
fury fused”
ONAMATOPOEIA- words sound like their
meanings EXAMPLES: drip, whisper, hoot, meow, murmur
ALLITERATION-words that begin with the same consonant sound
SUCH AS: In a Summer Season, where Soft was Sun
EACH POEM ALSO HAS
IMAGERY(figures of speech representing sense
experiences)
-comparisons are one way of creating imagery as in…
1) SIMILE- two unlike things are compared using “like” or “as”
Example: the man paced like a lion
2) METAPHOR- two unlike things are directly compared without the use of “like” or “as”
Example: The river is a snake which coils on itself.
3) PERSONIFICATION-giving human qualities to anything that is not human
Examples: The trees danced in the breeze
4) APOSTROPHE- addressing some abstract object
Example: “O world! Tell me thy pain!”
5) LITERARY ALLUSIONS- Referring metaphorically to person, places, and things from history or previous literature.
-and by EXAGGERATION
1) HYPERBOLE- Saying more than this is true
Example: “He wore his fingers to the bone.”
2) UNDERSTANDMENT- Saying less than is true.
Example: “Losing his job meant ht could sleep late.”
IRONY- Saying the opposite to what is true.
Example: “War is kind.”
And finally, EVERY POEM has FORM(structure)
A starIf you are
A love compassionate,You will walk with us this year.
We face a glacial distance who are hereHuddl’d
At your feet
RUN-ON LINE_NOT END SENTENCE OR THOUGHT
LONG LINESOFTER INDICATE DISTANCE OR DIRECTION
NOTE EACH LINE STARTS WITH A CAPITAL LETTER
REPETITION-of words, sounds, or ideas to enhance
rhythm or to create emphasis
Example :Because I do not hope to turn againBecause I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn
What’s a “POETIC LICENSE?”
It means that a poet is allowed to break rules of spelling to make his or her rhyme
or meter more perfect-
AS IN: soft oftHope ope
RHYME SCHEMESARE INDICATED BY THE USE OF LETTERS
Such as in :
1. Roses are red A2. Violets are blue B3. Sugar is sweet C4. And so are you B
The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABCB.
A LONG POEMUSUALLY CONSISTS OF A
NUMBER OF LINES GROUPED INTO SETS OF
LINES CALLED
STANZAS
# OF lINES What’s it called? What it is
2 RHYMED COUPLET
2 LINES WITH THE SAME RHYME
4 QUATRAIN 4 LINES WITH ANY RHYME
6 SESTET SIX LINES
8 OCTAVE 8 LINES
14 SONNET 14 LINES OF IAMBIC PENTAMETER
SOME SPECIAL NAMES FOR STANZAS
SOME TYPES OR GROUPS POEMS FALL INTO
EPIC
BALLAD
ODEELEGY
EPITAPH
LYRICPASTORAL
NARRATIVE
SONNET
POETS AND THEIR POETRY HAVE THEIR OWN STYLES
(sometimes these are called schools or movements)
“CLASSICAL”“REALISTIC”“ABSTRACT”“ROMANTIC”
“PSYCOLOGICAL”
Try to Understand the
THEMEOf each poem Ask yourself: “What is
the message?”
DIFFERENT POETS MY HAVE QUITE DIFFERENT ATTITUDES TOWARD THE SAME SUBJECT
war
War is a dreadful waste of people and resources
War makes the mighty men and eliminates the weak
What Amazing heroism and courage war
brings our in men
As a soldier, I do not see the war, but only
my own misery
EVERY POET IS INFLUENCED BY…
1)His or her BELIEFS-usually reflected on in his/ her THEMES
2)The PERIOD-usually affects the STYLE of the poem
3)The SUBJECT-often affects the METRICAL PATTERN
4)CREATIVITY will affect his or her use of IMAGERY
THE END
KEEP POETRY ALIVE