1. Poetry

2. Poetry
A poem is created by putting words together in an interesting way to express a feeling, create a mental picture, tell a story, or make a sound.
Poetry entertains the ears and the eyes.

3. Poems Everywhere Poems can be found in many places.
You might have a collection of poems in one book all written by the same author, like this book by Shel Silverstein.
Or, you might find a collection of poems written by various authors but printed in the same book. This is called an anthology.

4. Poetry Parts

5. Stanza A stanza in a poem is like a paragraph in an essay.
How many stanzas does this poem have?
Stanza
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Will the Summer come again? Rain on houses, on the street, Wetting all the people's feet, Though they run with might and main. Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. Will the Winter never go? What do beggar children do With no fire to cuddle to, P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go? Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. Hail and ice, and ice and hail, Water frozen in the pail. See the robins, brown and red, They are waiting to be fed. Poor dears, battling in the gale! Hail and ice, and ice and hail.
A stanza in a poem is like a paragraph in an essay.
A stanza is usually separated by some blank space.
Common stanza lengths are two, three, four, six, or eight lines.

6. Line A line in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
How many lines does this stanza have?
Line
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Will the Summer come again? Rain on houses, on the street, Wetting all the people's feet, Though they run with might and main. Rain and wind, and wind and rain.
A line in a poem is like a sentence in a paragraph.
Sometimes, poets use punctuation to mark the end of a line. Sometimes, they do not.

7. Verse
This is a verse.
A verse is similar to a line, but it might not be a full sentence.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield Rain and wind, and wind and rain. Will the Summer come again? Rain on houses, on the street, Wetting all the people's feet, Though they run with might and main. Rain and wind, and wind and rain.

8. Elements of Poetry

9. Rhyme The repetition of end sounds is called rhyme. These words rhyme.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. Will the Winter never go? What do beggar children do With no fire to cuddle to, P'rhaps with nowhere warm to go? Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow.

10. Rhyme Scheme
Find the rhyme scheme.
The rhyme scheme of a poem can be determined by marking rhyming lines of the poem with a letter of the alphabet.
Winter Song
by Katherine Mansfield Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. A Will the Winter never go? A
What do beggar children do B With no fire to cuddle to, B Perhaps with nowhere warm to go? A Snow and sleet, and sleet and snow. A
So, the rhyme scheme is A-A-B-B-A-A

11. Rhythm Rhythm is a regular, patterned repetition of sounds in a poem.
How many syllables are in each line?
Why do you think the poet changed the rhythm of the last line?
The Winter Evening Settles Down
T. S. Eliot
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o’clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scrap
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamp.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
Rhythm
Rhythm is a regular, patterned repetition of sounds in a poem.
Rhythm is like the beat in music, and can give poetry a musical sound.
Poets often use syllables of words to create a rhythm.

12. Free Verse or Unrhymed Verse
Free verse or unrhymed poems do not rhyme or have regular rhythm.
Winter Trees
William Carlos Williams
All the complicated details
of the attiring and
the disattiring are completed!
A liquid moon
moves gently among
the long branches.
Thus having prepared their buds
against a sure winter
the wise trees
stand sleeping in the cold.

13. Do these poems follow the pattern of a haiku?
Snow upon the Crows’ Nests
Rimei
The heavy winter snows
Have capped with white the pine-tree tops
Where sleep the big black crows
Haiku
A haiku is an unrhymed three-line poem with a very specific rhythm.
The pattern of syllables looks like this:
Line 1: 5 syllables
Line 2: 7 syllables
Line 3: 5 syllables
A Heavy Snowfall
Riu
Now all the world is white,
But where is one to find a spot
To view the lovely sight?
A Wintry Landscape
Issa
The trees are frozen deep
In snowy garb, and now and then
A bird chirps in its sleep.

14. Figurative Language
Poets and other writers use figurative language to make their writing more interesting and expressive.

15. Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia is the imitation of sounds in word form.

16. The Fourth by Shel SIlverstein
Oh CRASH! my BASH! it’s BANG! the ZANG! Fourth WOOSH! of BAROOOM! July WHEW!

17. Alliteration
Winter from a window
Robert Arthur Miller
With windows we watch winters whispering winds
while we wear whatevers warm,
while we wait we wonder whether ,weather will slow
with what was the worst winter storm.
Where we were, within warming walls
we watched winters weather wind down.
without windows we woud'nt see what was winters
whitest snow on the ground.
Alliteration is when almost all of the words in the line have the same beginning sound.

18. Consonance
Consonance is when the same consonant sound is used at the end of many words.
excerpt from Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too
by Shel Silverstein
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too
Went for a ride in a flying shoe.

19. Similes Poets use similes to compare two objects or ideas.
Similes use the words “like” or “as”.

20. Metaphors
Metaphors also compare two objects or ideas, but do not use “like or “as”.