1. Literary Types Introduction to Poetry
LAP 4: Poetry
Literary Types
Introduction to Poetry

2. -How many of you feel confident when reading or writing poetry
-How many of you feel confident when reading or writing poetry? -Why or why not? -What will help you? -Do you ever feel like this…?

3. Characters in Poems
The characters in a poem are different than that of prose. There can be three characters in any given poem:
The speaker
The listener
The reader
Hint: sometimes you (the reader) can be all three, depending on the setting, tone, and context of the poem.

4. Speaker and Tone Speaker and Tone
The speaker of a poem is the character who speaks in, or narrates, the poem – the voice assumed by the writer.
The speaker and the writer are NOT necessarily the same person. Since the speaker is the voice of the poem, the voice sets the tone.
Tone is the emotional attitude toward the reader or toward the subject implied by a poem.
Examples of tone
Ironic
Playful
Serious
Sarcastic

5. Quick Write: To do: Get out a blank piece of paper.
Task: Write a four line poem (quatrain) describing a season.
Challenge: Do not mention the name of the season in the poem (and do not title the poem).

6. Setting and Context Setting and Context
The setting of a literary work is the time and place in which it occurs, together with all the details used to create a sense of a particular time and place.
Poets often create setting using sensory details.
Sensory details include sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste.
Writers employ the five senses to engage a reader's interest.

7. Quick Draw: What: Pass your poem to the person behind you.
Task: Draw a picture of what the poem is describing.

8. Figurative Language
Figurative Language is writing or speech that is meant to be understood imaginatively instead of literally.
A metaphor is a comparison in which one thing is written about as if it were another.
A simile is a comparison that uses like or as.
Personification is a figure of speech in which non-human things, objects and ideas are given human-like qualities.

9. Sight and Sound Sight and Sound
Poetry uses descriptive language, or imagery, to create a vivid picture in the mind of the reader and to appeal to the senses-primary sight but also sound, touch, taste, and smell.
The pattern of beats, or stresses, in a line of poetry is called rhythm. Rhythm can be regular or irregular. A regular rhythmic pattern is called a meter.

10. Rhyme
Rhyme
Some forms of poetry use the repetition of sounds at the ends of words to create rhyme, as in day and away.
Internal rhyme is rhyme that occurs within lines
End rhyme is rhyme that occurs at the ends of lines
Rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhyme designated by assigning a different letter of the alphabet to each rhyme (ababcdcd)

11. Quick Rhyme: To do: Pass the paper again.
Task: Add two lines to the poem, making is a 6 line poem (sestet). Each line must contain one of the following: metaphor, simile or personification. Add some sort of rhyme scheme to the lines.

12. Structure and Form Structure Form
Whereas stores and essays are divided into paragraphs, poems can be divided into stanzas, or groups of lines.
The type of stanza is determined by the number of lines:
Couplet: two lines
Tercet/Triplet: three lines
Quatrain: four lines
Quintet/Quintain: five lines
Sestet: six lines
Septet: seven lines
Octave: eight lines
Form
A single poem may contain numerous recognizable elements.

13. Quick Title To do: Pass the paper one more time.
Task: Read the poem to yourself. Look at the picture that provided the imagery. Create a title for the poem.

14. Quick Read: To do: Pass the poem back to it’s original author.
Task: Volunteer to read your poem.