Poetic Styles Descriptive Poetry Acquainted with the Night (Frost) Notable for its vividness. Uses descriptions that appeal to the senses -Engages the imagination Acquainted with the Night (Frost) Birches (Frost)

Poetic Styles Con`t Narrative Poetry Tells a story -Concerned with characters, setting and conflict On the way to the Mission The Zax –Identify the: plot, setting, characters, theme

Poetic Styles Con`t Reflective Poetry Searches for deep truths and poses the questions of existence. Contemplates life & what it means to be human -Eg. Who am I? Is there an ultimate purpose to life? What is the nature of happiness? Letter to a Future Generation- Journal Response Do you think ignorance of past atrocities, or knowledge of them is a better, more effective way to prevent these mistakes from being repeated?

Structure of Poetry Rhyme Schemes Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A are described USING LETTERS that correspond to sets of rhymes. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; A All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, B Couldn’t put Humpty together again. B The Rhyme Scheme for this poem is: A,A,B,B

Structure of Poetry Meter – a.k.a. rhythm Iambic Pentameter The pattern of beats or stresses Can be specific and consistent Iambic Pentameter Is a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet in a row. The MOST COMMON meter in English poetry

Types of Poetry Sonnet A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter Its subject is traditionally that of love. 2 Kinds: Petrarchan Italian, octave (8 lines) & sestet (6 lines) Rhyme scheme is ababcdcd then cdecde Shakesperian No octave/sestet structure Rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg

Shakesperian Sonnet Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Types of Poetry Con`t Villanelle Poem of 19 lines Has 5 stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines 1st line of 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 2nd and 4th stanzas 3rd line of the 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 3rd and 5th stanzas These 2 lines are the last 2 lines of the poem Rhyme scheme is aba

Villanelles Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night Reading Scheme By Dylan Thomas Reading Scheme By Wendy Cope

Types of Poetry Con`t Ballad A song-like poem that tells a story (Narrative) Four to Six line stanzas Regular rhythm and rhyme schemes “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde

Types of Poetry Con`t Concrete Poem (Soda Pop) A Poem whose form represents its subject or theme. (Soda Pop)

Types of Poetry Con’t Elegy Eulogy (Not poetry usually) A poem whose purpose is to express grief or sorrow for the dead. Often read at funerals VS. Eulogy (Not poetry usually) A plain language speech whose purpose is to express sorrow or grief for the dead. Often read at funerals.

Elegies Child Burial by Paula Meehan Elegy before Death by Edna St. Vincent Millay Tiara by Mark Doty

Types of Poetry Con`t Ode Poem written to celebrate an event, a person, a thing, a being, a power, an object etc. Horatian Odes: follow a regular stanza pattern and rhyme scheme Irregular Odes: No set stanza or rhyme scheme

Odes Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Bowl of Goldfishes Pablo Neruda’s Poems

Assignment Write your own Ode or Elegy It must be at least 12 lines Can be about anything or anyone Can be serious (tribute to someone you love/loved) It can be humorous (a tribute to something unusual) Due. Tuesday, November 22nd