1. Unit 3: Poetry English I Unit Goals:
Recognize characteristics of many different forms of poetry, including:
Lyric poetry
Elegy
Concrete poetry
Ode
Ballad
Dramatic monologue
Sonnet
Free verse
Focus on the following Poetic elements (academic vocabulary):
Line
Stanza
Figurative language
Sound devices
Speaker
Imagery
Visualize
Synthesize
Paraphrase

2. What’s the difference between poetry and regular writing?
Regular written and oral language is called prose. Prose: written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure. Poetry: writing in which special intensity is given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

3. TRADITIONAL VS ORGANIC POETRY
Traditional Poetry:
Follows fixed rules, such as a specific number of lines
Has a regular pattern of rhythm and/or rhyme
Its forms include epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, and limerick
Example:
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the Culprit-Life! -by Emily DIckinson

4. TRADITIONAL VS ORGANIC POETRY
Does not follow established rules for form
Does not have a regular pattern of rhythm and may not rhyme at all
May use unconventional spelling, punctuation, and grammar
Example:
we’re everyanything more than believe
(with a spin
leap
alive we’re alive)
we’re wonderful one times one -from “If Everything Happens
that Can’t Be Done” by E.E.
Cummings

5. The Language of poetry: form
Please turn to page 668 in your textbook
The Language of poetry: form
Form: the way a poem’s words are arranged on the page (poem’s structure). Lines: all poems are made up of a series of lines. The length of lines, where the lines break, and how they are punctuated all affect a poem’s rhythm and meaning. Stanzas: Often lines are grouped into stanzas. Stanzas function in poetry like paragraphs function in prose.

6. The language of poetry: terms
Epic: a long, narrative poem. Example: Homer’s Odyssey Ode: a meditative or commemorative lyric poem. Ballad: a narrative poem written to be sung or recited. Sonnet: a 14 line poem having a set pattern of rhythm and rhyme. Example: Shakespeare’s sonnets Haiku: a form of Japanese poetry with 3 lines and a fixed number of syllables for each line: 1st line= 5 syllables, 2nd line=7 syllables, 3rd line=5 syllables. Limerick: a light or humorous poem with a particular rhyme scheme Free verse: poetry that does not have regular meter Concrete Poetry: poetry that conveys meaning visually through the arrangement of letters and words (ex: a poem about a tornado written in a spiral; a poem about fire written within the shape of a candle flame)

7. Page 669 “Pretty Words” Close read questions and answers:
How many lines make up the 1st stanza? How many are in the 2nd stanza?
There are 8 lines in the first stanza, six in the second
2. In the first stanza, each group of end-rhyming words is highlighted in the same color. Identify the end- rhyming words in the second stanza.
“early” line 9 and “pearly” line 12; “trees” line 11 and “bees” line 13; “sing” line 10 and “sting” line 14
Compare the ideas expressed in the first stanza with those in the second one.
In the first stanza, the poet expresses her love of words that are “pretty, docile, smooth, tender, shy and dappled.” In the second stanza, the poet expresses her love of “bright words that are luminous, opalescent, with a little sting.” In both stanzas, she uses similes and metaphors to compare words to animals.