1. Introduction to Poetry

2. Goal of the Unit To gain an appreciation for poetry
To understand that poetry exists all around us in different forms
To be able to analyze poetry using specific reading and writing strategies
To be able to write different forms of poetry using various elements

3. What is poetry?
A poem may appear to mean very different things to different readers, and all of these meanings may be different from what the author thought he meant. For instance, the author may have been writing some peculiar personal experience, which he saw quite unrelated to anything outside; yet for the reader the poem may become the expression of a general situation, as well as of some private experience of his own. The reader's interpretation may differ from the author's and be equally valid-- it may even be better. There may be much more in a poem than the author was aware of. The different interpretations may all be partial formulations of one thing; the ambiguities may be due to the fact that the poem means more, not less, than ordinary speech can communicate.
--T.S. Eliot

4. What is a poet?
A poet is somebody who feels, and who expresses his feelings through words. This may sound easy. It isn't. A lot of people think or believe or know they feel -- but that's thinking or believing or knowing; not feeling. and poetry is feeling -- not knowing or believing or thinking. Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel. Why? Because whenever you think or you believe or you know, you're a lot of other people; but the moment you feel, you're NOBODY-BUT-YOURSELF e.e. cummings

5. What is a poem? A POEM IS LIKE A PERSON.
We need to "meet," experience, and think about a poem many times before we can really know it.

6. What is a poem? A POEM IS A SPEECH.
A speaker in a situation (sometimes including a specific setting and audience) is expressing perceptions, thoughts, and feelings, directly as well as indirectly. We infer theme and tone partly from what the speaker says and how he says it.

7. A POEM IS AN ARTFUL WEAVE OF WORDS.
Consider every single element and feature of STYLE -- the language, the verbal expression of the poem... syntax (sentence structure), diction (word choice); imagery, figurative language, symbolism ; punctuation and other mechanics of writing 
STYLE suits speaker, situation, theme, and tone, and contributes to their development.

8. A POEM IS A MUSICAL WORK OF ART.
Consider every single element and feature of FORM -- the sounds and the visual arrangement of the poem rhyme rhythm or meter line breaks (end-stopped or run-on) stanza length and stanza breaks repetition and devices of sound, traditional forms (ballad, sonnet, blank verse)
FORM complements everything else in the poem: speaker, situation, theme, tone, style.

9. What are the Elements of Poetry?
Forms of Poetry
Lyric poem: short and focuses on speaker’s feelings
Narrative poem: longer and tells a story
Poetry
Lyric
Narrative
Riddle
Free Verse
Ballad
Epic
Sonnet

10. Forms of Poetry Riddle Narrative Poem Sonnet Free Verse Elegy Biopoem
Limerick
Found Poem
Puzzle in a poem
Tells a story
“little song” of 14 lines
Free from structure
Poem for the dead
Describes life of a person
5 line humorous poem
Found from other texts

11. Use T.I.M.E. to Analyze Poetry
T – Theme
I – Imagery  Figurative Language
M – Music  Sound Devices
E – Emotions  Mood and Tone

12. What is the meaning of the poem?
T - Theme
What is the meaning of the poem?
Determine and Analyze the THEME by:
Title
Speaker
Situation
Form
Content
Style

13. I - Imagery
Imagery involves any type of image the author creates for the reader.
Includes use of Figurative Language
Imagery:
A word or phrase that appeals to one or more of the five senses

14. Language Devices Simile: Figurative Language/Figures of Speech:
Writing that is not meant to be taken literally
Example: He made me so mad I wanted to die.
Simile:
A figure of speech that uses like or as to make a direct comparison between two unlike ideas
My love is like a red rose.

15. More Language Devices Metaphor: Personification:
A figure of speech in which something is described as though it were something else
Example: He is such a pig when he eats!
Personification:
A type of figurative language in which a non-human subject is given human characteristics
Example: The tree waved excitedly in the wind.

16. More Language Devices Metonymy: Synecdoche::
Substitution of the name of one thing for another
Example: “crown” for “royalty”
Synecdoche::
Whole represents a part, or a part represents a whole
Example: “set of wheels”, “the press”

17. More Language Devices Hyperbole: Symbolism:
A great exaggeration to emphasize strong feeling
Example: I will love you until all the seas go dry
Symbolism:
Something that represents something else

18. M – Music of Poetry Rhythm:
Pattern of beats or stresses in spoken or written language
Rhyme:
Repetition of sounds at the end of words
Example: Roses are red, violets are blue…..

19. Rhyme End Rhyme: - rhyme occurs at the end words of a line
Example: Roses are red, violets are blue…..
Internal Rhyme:
- rhyme occurs inside a line
Example: The cool school is filled with fools .
Slant or Approximate Rhyme:
-rhyming words sound similar but not exact
Example: “ill” and “shell”; “soul” and “all”

20. Rhyme Scheme Rhyme Scheme: - Each new sound is given a new letter
A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem (abab cdcd efef gg)
- Each new sound is given a new letter
Practice identifying the rhyme scheme of the riddle poems.

21. Sound Devices Onomatopoeia: The use of words that imitate sounds
Example: The buzz of the bee was very loud.
Alliteration:
Repetition of initial consonant sounds
Example: Sister Suzy sat on the seashore until suddenly she was swallowed by a shark.

22. Sound Devices Assonance: Consonance: Repetition:
Repetition of vowel sounds
Example: silent time, white lilacs
Consonance:
Repetition of consonant sounds
Example: litter and letter
Repetition:
The use, more than once, of any element of language
Example: “I sprang to the stirrup, and Jarvis, and he;I galloped, Derrick galloped, we galloped all three”

23. What emotions does the author create in the poem?
Emotions of Poetry
What emotions does the author create in the poem?
Tone:
- Speaker’s attitude toward the subject
Mood:
The feeling created in the reader by a literary work

24. Poetry Term Posters
In pairs, you will create posters for two poetry terms we have learned.
On each poster, you will include
The term
A definition in your own words
Example
Visual that illustrates the term in use
After, you will TEACH your term to the class.

25. One-Pager - Prose
On the front side of your paper, write a one-page response to the text.
The response is NOT a summary.
It discusses your thoughts, feelings, or attitudes about the text or a specific part of the text (a line or sentence).

26. One-Pager - Visual On the back, create a “collage” of the following:
A quote or line(s) from the text
An image or picture
A sentence about the text – your thoughts or interpretation.
A question and answer about the text.