What is poetry? Poetry is a form of literature in which ideas and feelings are expressed in compact, imaginative, and often musical language.

Form and structure Sound Imagery Figurative language Key Elements of Poetry When analyzing a poem, there are 4 elements you should be looking for: Form and structure Sound Imagery Figurative language

Poems are written in lines Form and Structure Today, we will cover the first element of poetry, form and structure. Poems are written in lines Lines are grouped in stanzas (a stanza is like a paragraph) The way a poem's lines and words are arranged is its form

“Mad Girl's Love Song” -Sylvia Plath “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, and arbitrary blackness closes in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into dead And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)” This is just an excerpt of the poem; there are three more stanzas. “Mad Girl's Love Song” -Sylvia Plath

Narrative Lyric Free Verse Haiku Ballad Epic Ode Sonnet Common Forms of Poetry Narrative Lyric Free Verse Haiku Ballad Epic Ode Sonnet

Includes a plot line, characters, and a setting Narrative Poetry Tells a story Includes a plot line, characters, and a setting Has a sequence of events Common forms of narrative poetry are: ballads and epics

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 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 some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and nothing more." Want more? Go to: http://www.bartleby.com/102/84.html

Presents the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker Lyric Poetry Presents the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker Tends to have a recognizable rhythm, meter, and rhyme Tends to be shorter than narrative poems

“Summer” by Walter Dean Meyers I like hot days, hot days Sweat is what you got days Bugs buzzin from cousin to cousin Juices dripping Running and ripping Catch the one you love days Birds peeping Old men sleeping Lazy days, daisies lay Beaming and dreaming Of hot days, hot days, Sweat is what you got days.

Doesn't use a regular form, rhyme pattern, rhythm, or meter Free Verse Poetry Doesn't use a regular form, rhyme pattern, rhythm, or meter Still uses lines, stanzas, and may or may not include punctuation

“The Fog” The fog comes on little cat feet It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. “This is Just To Say” I have eaten the plums that were in the ice-box and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold.

A type of narrative poetry Ballad A type of narrative poetry Tells a story of ordinary people in the midst of tragic events or adventures of love and bravery Often has a simple rhyme scheme and regular rhythm Common rhyme schemes are abcb and abcbdb

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. The above is an excerpt – “In Medias Res” Want more? Go to: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Rime_Ancient_Mariner.html

A type of narrative poetry Usually very long Tells about the adventures of a hero Usually a serious topic, unless it is a parody Usually has a rhyme scheme and recognizable rhythm Epic

Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, "If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm." Want more? Go to... http://poetry.eserver.org/paul-revere.html

Celebrates themes such as truth, justice, or beauty A type of lyric poetry Celebrates themes such as truth, justice, or beauty Sometimes celebrates simple things Ode

A type of lyric poem Formal structure 14 lines Specific rhyme scheme Sonnet

Haiku