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IS THIS A POEM? A Supermarket In California by Allan Ginsberg What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon. In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations! What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! --and you, García Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Is this a poem?

IS THIS A POEM? A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

And, IS THIS A POEM? A bather whose clothing was strewed By winds that left her quite nude Saw a man come along And unless we are wrong You expected this line to be lewd.

ANSWER They are all poems. When poetry is written, it should have a subject, a goal, a tone, and a flow. It should contain specific, condensed word choice and literary devices.

How can we begin to analyse poetry: Idea and Emotion Type and Form Style of the Line Concise Word Choice

"A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a home-sickness or a love-sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found the words.” -Robert Frost

Task 1 Recall a childhood memory; something which can be remembered with vivid detail. Write up the memory (be as descriptive as possible) in approx 100 words. NB: In 10 minutes you are going to produce a poem using an allocated form which you will taught momentarily.

Poetic Voice - How is the poem written? Poems are written in many different ways. Very simply, when analysing a poem you should consider if it is written in the first or third person. For example, is the poet writing the poem using "I", or acting as the narrator. If the poet has written the poem in the first person, you need to consider whether the poet is writing their own ideas directly or taking on the role of another character. Also, the poem may express different points of view and voices in different stanzas. How many different voices are there in the poem? Do you associate more closely with one of the voices? If so, why? Does the poem directly ask the reader questions or do you feel that the poet is challenging their own ideas in the poem? Does the poet want you to feel a certain way or are they looking for you to answer a question?

Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these sunken eyes and learn to see All your life You were only waiting for this moment to be free Blackbird fly, blackbird fly Into the light of the dark black night Blackbird singing in the dead of night Take these broken wings and learn to fly All your life You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise You were only waiting for this moment to arise

Lyric: Lyric: A melodic poem which recalls an emotion or a scene Haiku: Haiku: Three lined Japanese poem Narrative Narrative: A poem that tells a story Elegy Elegy: A poem about something lost Ode Ode: A poem celebrating something Road Road: A poem about a time of travel Metaphor Metaphor: The whole poem is a metaphor Object Obsession Object Obsession: A poem written about an object Ballad Ballad: A narrative poem with a refrain, usually about love Prose Prose: A poem written more like a paragraph

Lyric Lyric Poetry consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. The term lyric is now commonly referred to as the words to a song. Lyric poetry does not tell a story which portrays characters and actions. The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.

Ballad Ballads were originally composed to accompany dances, and so were composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines. These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. Most northern and west European ballads are written in ballad stanzas or quatrains (four-line stanzas) of alternating lines of iambic (an unstressed followed by a stressed syllable) tetrameter (eight syllables) and iambic trimeter (six syllables), known as ballad meter. Usually, only the second and fourth line of a quatrain are rhymed (in the scheme a, b, c, b), which has been taken to suggest that, originally, ballads consisted of couplets (two lines) of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables. Note: It was popular in the romantic era to combine these types of poem to create Lyrical Ballads (Coleridge and Wordsworth produced a collection of these poems in 1798). These combined the musical, natural form of the ballad with the reflective, emotional style of the lyric in order to create a poem which typified the Romantic era.

Pastoral A Pastoral poem is a poem that depicts rural life in a peaceful, idealized way for example of shepherds or country life.

Idyll Idylls are either short poems depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene, or long poems that tell a story about ancient heroes. The word is derived from the Greek word 'eidyllion' meaning "little picture".

Allegory An Allegory is a narrative having a second meaning beneath the surface one - a story with two meanings, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning. Examples of allegories are the Fairie Queen by Edmund Spenser, Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Elegy An Elegy is a sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person. An example of this type of poem is Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."

Epic Epic Poems are long, serious poems that tells the story of a heroic figure. Some of the most famous epic poems are the Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer.

Epitaph An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written in praise, or reflecting the life, of a deceased person.

Ode A lyrical verse in praise of, or dedicated to someone or something which captures the poet's interest or serves as an inspiration for the ode. A classic ode is structured in three major parts: the strophe, the antistrophe, and the epode.

Narrative Narrative poetry is a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metrical verse. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is usually dramatic, with objectives, diverse characters, and metre. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls and lyrics.

Form and its application Try using a given form to guide the theme of the poem using ONLY the words that you wrote when recalling your childhood memory.

There are MANY different forms of poems. Some fit a specific format and some fit a specific theme. Some examples of format poems: Acrostic: a word or set of words is written down the page and each line starts with that letter.

Sonnet: 14 lines of iambic pentameter, with a specific rhyme scheme and intro/conclusion style. How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every day’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.

Sestina: Each stanza must use the same end words as the first stanza, but in a different pattern each time.

Haiku- A three line poem with specific syllable lengths of Limerick- Usually a funny poem with a AABBA rhyme scheme and specific syllable length. Villanelle- A poem where certain lines are repeated to make more of a refrain Pantoum: Each stanza reuses different lines in a specific pattern from the previous stanzas.