What is Poetry?

Per. 6: Descriptive Stanzas May be iambic pentameter Rhythm Can rhyme Tone (related to emotions) Has [hidden] messages May not understand on first reading

How do you know if something is a poem?

Form Sound (rhythm, sound devices) Meaning

How do you know if something is a poem?

1. Don’t read line-by-line. Instead, look at sentences.

2. Reorganize words so that they make grammatical sense in your paraphrase.

3. Put missing words back in to help you make sense of the meaning, or look up unfamiliar words.

3 tips for reading poetry

For “Hotel California,” do the following as you listen: Highlight or underline any words or phrases

that stand out to you. After you have read it through once, look at

what you noticed. Do the words or phrases have anything in common?

Now take a look at the title. What might be the relationship of the title to the poem?

Finally, based on all you’ve noticed and thought, what do you think the theme of the poem is?

How to approach a poem:

The poem uses the metaphor of a “Hotel California” to represent…

Then:

Per. 2: Stanzas Sometimes rhyme Creative way to write about nature, feelings, life Uses metaphors or other literary devices Rhythm Sometimes have rules (like haiku) Sometimes random (no rules) Usually not really long

How do you know if something is a poem?

Per. 4: Words rhyme sometimes Written in lines Stanzas (paragraph-like sections, or a chunk of

lines) Haikus (counting syllables) Meaning Writing with rhythm Different format

How do you know if something is a poem?