1. What is Poetry? It’s literature, like the other stuff we study in class. It’s art: the way a poem looks is important. It’s about form and content “A moment of truth”

2. Basics of Poetry Rhyme: –Repitition of similar sounds. –True, Exact, or Masculine rhyme: all the sounds are repeated. (Gate/ rate, love/dove) –Slant, Imperfect, or Feminine rhyme: words sound similar, but are not exact. (young/ song)

3. Basics of Poetry Rhyme scheme: A pattern of rhymes determined by the last word in each line. Usually we mark it with lowercase letters.

4. Basics of poetry Meter is the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem. Each is known as a metrical foot. –Iamb: unstressed, stressed –Trochee: Stressed, unstressed

5. The Basics of Poetry Stanzas are groups of lines, set off by a space, that usually has a set pattern and meter. –2 lines: Couplet –3 lines: Tercet –4 lines: Quatrain –5 lines: Quintain –6 lines: Sextain –7 lines: Septet –8 lines: Octave

6. The Basics of Poetry Blank Verse: –Also known as iambic pentameter (5 iambs, or 10 syllables per line) –da-DA –The sound of life, the heartbeat, the sound of love

7. Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias” Classic poem Follows typical format Rhymes

11. Shakespearean Sonnet A sonnet is a rhymed poem that follows a specific pattern. 14 lines, iambic pentameter.

12. Shakespearean Sonnet 3 Quatrains 1 Rhyming Couplet at the end Rhyme Scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg Usually about love and romance, but not always.

13. Punch Shakespeare! Blackadder (Women’s Hour Invasion 1988)

14. Irony When what one says or does is the OPPOSITE of what is meant or generally understood.

15. Paradox A contradiction Putting opposing ideas together to create unexpected insight/ meaning

16. Emily Dickinson Free Verse Contemporary of Whalt Whitman –Intensity of human emotion.

17. Robert Frost “Nothing Gold Can Stay” –Fleeting qualities of nature, of LIFE

25. The Death of The Ball Turret Gunner Randall Jarrel

26. Randall Jarell (1914-1965) Nashville, Tennessee Joined the Air Force in 1942 –"A ball turret was a plexiglass sphere set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and inhabited by two.50 caliber machine guns and one man, a short small man. When this gunner tracked with his machine guns a fighter attacking his bomber from below, he revolved with the turret; hunched upsidedown in his little sphere, he looked like the fetus in the womb. The fighters which attacked him were armed with cannon firing explosive shells. The hose was a steam hose."

27. “Winning your Wings” (1942) propaganda short, by the U.S. Airforce