Analyzing Poetry: Considering Elements of Craft Wartburg EN112 UNI 620:005 by Kim Groninga.

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Analyzing Poetry: Considering Elements of Craft Wartburg EN112 UNI 620:005 by Kim Groninga

Two Kinds of Poetry Free Verse Free verse is poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme. (Free verse can still contain rhyme and meter.) Modern and contemporary poets of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries often employ free verse. Formal Verse Formal verse is poetry which adheres to the rules of a given form. Rules might indicate a rhyme scheme, a specific meter, or a required placement of repeated words. Modern and contemporary poets often bend the rules of conventional forms and have also created new poetic forms; formal verse is not dead!

Diction: Word choice. Examples: “I came out lactic. Craving ashes / licking bricks” Amymarie Baldwin Why that word? What baggage does it carry? (or not carry?) Describe the overall word choice. Is it archaic? Conversational? Common? Scientific? Why? Elements of Craft: Diction “And the clouds fretted and flew, as though / there was a reason for their acting distraught.” John Ashbury

Elements of Craft: Rhyme Rhyme: the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. Full Rhyme: Cat/Hat Down/Town Slant Rhyme: Infants/Nests Down/Found Hand/WorldTrojan/Orange Look at paired words. Is there a relationship? Rhyme can occur at the ends of lines (called end-rhyme) or within lines (called internal rhyme).

Alliteration: The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Examples: “Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads” from “Arms and the Boy” by Wilfred Owen What do the repeated sounds remind you of? What do they imply? “the marbled moonlit trees rose like fresh memorials ” Mark Strand Elements of Craft: Alliteration

Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds. Examples: “How Now Brown Cow” What do the repeated sounds remind you of? What do they imply? Elements of Craft: Assonance “Snug as a gun” (Seamus Heaney)

Elements of Craft: Simile Examples: “Life is like a box of chocolates.” (Forrest Gump) Simile: a comparison between seemingly unlike things using like, as, or as though. What two things is the author comparing and why? “Rain breaks and falls like the mismatched halves of haloes.” (Emma Howell)

Elements of Craft: Metaphor Examples: “Nicole is homework” Metaphor: saying (or implying) something is something else. What is implied in the author’s choice of items to compare? “My family lives inside a medicine chest: / Dad is the super-size band aid, strong and powerful” (Belinda)

Elements of Craft: Imagery Examples: Imagery: The use of vivid or figurative language to represent objects, actions, or ideas. What choices has the author made and why? How does the imagery enhance the meaning of a given poem? “I might miss / The feet of god / Disguised as trees.” (Joy Harjo) “I can hear the library humming in the night, / a choir of authors murmuring inside their books / along the unlit alphabetical shelves.” (Billy Collins)

Elements of Craft: Personification Examples: “In the morning when I found History / snoring heavily on the couch, / I took down his overcoat from the rack. / And placed its weight over my shoulder blades.” (Billy Collins) Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-human things It’s not enough to be able to define and notice personification; you must now consider how it adds to (or creates another dimension of) meaning. “A tree that looks to God all day, / And lifts her leafy arms to pray” (Joyce Kilmer)

Elements of Craft: Onomatopoeia Examples: Think Batman & Robin: Biff, Pow, Bam Also: Crash, Clank, Swish, Rattle Onomatopoeia: Words that mimic the sounds of the item or action they are describing. How do sounds like these enhance the meaning of the poem? “Wood crackled and hissed, an owl / Hooted in the darkness.” (anonymous)

Other Elements of Craft Symbolism Meter/Rhythm Short lines vs. Long lines Setting Speaker Subject Style Narrative Voice

As you analyze a poem, ask yourself which of these elements of craft are present. How do these elements—these poetic choices— enhance the meaning of the poem?