1. Elements of Poetry
Meyer
English

2. What is poetry?
To William Wordsworth, poetry “is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
Poetry can be an attempted to describe “what is deeply felt and is essentially unsayable.”
Poetry is “the expression of the imagination.”

3. Which Means What?
Poetry is lofty thought or impassioned feeling expressed in imaginative words. Poetry uses verse - writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically (but not always) having a rhyme.
Authors use prose - written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.

4. Poetry VS. Music
By Elizabeth Bishop
He would not stay for me, and who can wonder?      He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder,      And went with half my life about my ways. by A. E. Housman
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

5. Reverend, Reverend, is this some conspiracy
Reverend, Reverend, is this some conspiracy? Crucified for no sins an image beneath me What’s within our plans for life? It all seems so unreal. I’m a man cut in half in this world, left in my misery …. The reverend, he turned to me without a tear in his eyes. It’s nothing new for him to see I will remember the love our souls had sworn to make. Well I guess you took my youth; I gave it all away. Like the birth of a new-found joy this love would end in rage. Video

6. I can't tell you what it really is I can only tell you what it feels like And right now there's a steel knife in my windpipe I can't breathe, but I still fight while I can fight As long as the wrong feels right, it's like I'm in flight High off of love Drunk from my hate It's like I'm huffing paint and I love it the more that I suffer I suffocate and right before I'm about to drown She resuscitates me
What song is this? What genre? Why is this genre similar to poetry?

7. Elements - Figurative Language –
Language based on some sort of comparison that is not literally true. Literal language states the facts. Figurative is expressive.
Personification – A type of metaphor in which nonhuman things or qualities are talked about as if they were human.

8. Assonance – Repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds in words that are close together. (Creates musical and rhythmic effects)
Ex: “And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side, or my darling, my darling, my life, and my bride” - Edgar Allen Poe

9. Alliteration – Repetition of the same or similar consonant sounds in words that are close together.
Ex: “Where the quail is whistling betwixt the woods and the wheat-lot.” -Walt Whitman.

10. Sonnet – Fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in iambic pentameter.
Iambic Pentameter – A line of poetry made up of five iambs. An iamb is a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. (Ex. De-ny, or ex-pect.)
Think Shakespeare!

11. Shakespearean (Elizabethan) Sonnet –
14 line poem. Has 3 quatrains and concludes with a couplet.
Rhyme Scheme
abab – cdcd- efef-gg

12. Petrarchan (Italian) Sonnet –
14 Line poem. The first 8 lines ask a question or pose a problem. The last 6 lines answer the question/problem. The poem presents a “turn” after the 8th line.

13. Couplet – Two consecutive lines of poetry that form a unit, often emphasized by rhythm or rhyme.
Free Verse – Poetry that does not have a regular meter or rhyme scheme.
Internal Rhyme – rhymes that occur within lines.

14. End Rhyme – Words that rhyme at the end of a line.
Rhyme Scheme – The pattern of rhymed lines in a poem.
Meter – A strict rhythmic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem.

15. Onomatopoeia – Use of a word whose sound imitates or suggests its meaning. (Ex. Buzz, clap, splash)
Symbol – Person, place, things, or event that stands for itself and something beyond itself.

16. A: When he runs out of patients.
Pun – Play on the multiple meanings of a word or on two words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Ex. Q: When is a doctor most annoyed?
A: When he runs out of patients.

17. Refrain – Repeating, words, phrases, lines or groups of lines in a poem.
Metaphor – A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two unlike things without a connecting word such as like, as, than, or resembles.

18. Rhythm – Musical quality in language produced by repetition
Diction – Writer’s or speaker’s choice of words
Tone – The attitude a writer takes toward the reader, a subject or a character.

19. New Forms of Poetry Slam Poetry & Spoken Word Poetry
Instagram Poetry