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

2. 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

3. 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

4. “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

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

6. 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

7. 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."
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8. 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

9. “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.

10. 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

11. “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.

12. 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

13. 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”
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14. 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

15. 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."
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16. 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

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

18. Haiku