1. { Introduction to Poetry Honors English 11

2.  Where in your life do you encounter poetry (beyond this class)? Think/pair/share

3.  How does poetry function as a genre?  How can we effectively read poetry?  How is reading poetry different from reading prose?  What role can poetry play in my life as an adult? Unit Essential Questions

4.   Poetry is appreciated by a broad and demographically diverse portion of society; individuals from all walks of life and education levels read and enjoy poetry.   Most poetry readers (80 percent) first encounter poetry as children, at home or in school. 77 percent of all readers were read nursery rhymes as children.   Among the most frequently cited reasons that people don't read poetry are lack of time…and the perception that poetry is difficult... Poetry in America findings

5.  What are the advantages of communicating through poetry (including songs)? Think/pair/share

6. Introduction to PoetryBY BILLY COLLINSBILLY COLLINS I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem’s room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.

7. { First reactions Does this poem mirror your experiences with poetry? Why or why not?

8. Always remember: Analysis is a means, not an end.

9.  Speaker: who is the narrator?  Occasion: context  Audience: intended reader(s)  Purpose: why was the piece written?  Structure: what is enabled by the form?  TONE: author’s attitude SOAPStone analysis

10. Richard CoryBY EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSONEDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good-morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich—yes, richer than a king— And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head.

11. { First reactions?

12.  Speaker  Occasion  Audience  Purpose  Structure  Tone SOAPStone

13. How is it done? (structure)

14.  End rhyme  Elision  Enjambment  Foot, poetic  Iamb  Meter  Pentameter  Point of view  Quatrain  Rhyme scheme  Spondee  Stanza Technical vocabulary

15.  Enjambment: where one grammatical unit occupies multiple lines in a poem.  Point of view  Stanza: grouping of lines in a poem; generally contain fixed or repeating meter, rhyme, or other structural characteristics  Quatrain: four-line stanza Technical vocabulary

16.  Meter: pattern of rhythm in poetry; always consists of two words:  Type of foot  Number of feet per line  Foot: pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables  Iamb: unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable ˘ /  Spondee: two stressed syllables //  Pentameter: five metrical feet per line of poetry  Elision: omission of sounds; usually used to fit words to meter Meter

17.  End rhyme: rhyming of words at the end of poetic lines  Rhyme scheme: pattern of end rhyme, where each rhyme type is identified by a specific letter (ABAB CDCD EFEF GG) Rhyme

18.  How would you express your love? Think/pair/share

19. 130 My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.

20.  Speaker  Occasion  Audience  Purpose  Structure  Tone SOAPStone

21. How is it done? (structure)

22. What can you inductively reason about…  Rhyme scheme?  Meter?  Stanza types?  Form?

23.  Sonnet  Shakespearean (English) sonnet  Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet  Spenserian sonnet  Iambic pentameter  Volta Technical Vocabulary

24. I will put Chaos into fourteen lines And keep him there; and let him thence escape If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape Flood, fire, and demon --- his adroit designs Will strain to nothing in the strict confines Of this sweet order, where, in pious rape, I hold his essence and amorphous shape, Till he with Order mingles and combines. Past are the hours, the years of our duress, His arrogance, our awful servitude: I have him. He is nothing more nor less Than something simple not yet understood; I shall not even force him to confess; Or answer. I will only make him good.

25. The Lynching by Claude McKay His Spirit in smoke ascended to high heaven. His father, by the cruelest way of pain, Had bidden him to his bosom once again; The awful sin remained still unforgiven. All night a bright and solitary star(Perchance the one that ever guided him, Yet gave him up at last to Fate's wild whim) Hung pitifully o'er the swinging char. Day dawned, and soon the mixed crowds came to view The ghastly body swaying in the sun The women thronged to look, but never a one Showed sorrow in her eyes of steely blue; And little lads, lynchers that were to be, Danced round the dreadful thing in fiendish glee.

26.  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/foundation/i nitiative_pa_keyfindings.html Sources