1. An Introduction to “POETRY is PROSE bewitched
a music MADE OF visual THOUGHT
The SOUND of an IDEA” -Mina Loy

2. POETRY
a type of writing in which words are chosen and arranged to create a strong feeling, message, or image through meaning, sound, and rhythm.

3. Structure Elements
Prose
Lines
Stanza
Rhyme
Rhyme Scheme

4. Structure Prose: Writing that uses sentences Example:
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?”
“Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again.
“No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?”
“I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
poetry is NOT prose

5. Lines: rows of words that do not always follow the rules of capitalization and punctuation that you see in other types of writing.
Example:
who knows if the moon’s
a balloon,coming out of a keen city
in the sky—filled with pretty people?
(and if you and i should
get into it,if they
should take me and take you into their baloon,
e.e. cummings

6. Stanzas: groups of lines set apart by spaces, like a paragraph
Example:
The Tyger by William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

7. Rhyme: describes words with the same sound ending.
Rhyme Scheme: certain lines follow a clear pattern.
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour Then leaf subsides to leaf So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day Nothing gold can stay.

8. Sound Devices
Poets play with the sounds of words to create certain effects.
Rhythm
Meter
Repetition
Alliteration

9. Rhythm
Stressed and unstressed syllables in a line

10. Meter recurring pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables Ex:
………
Shall.I..|..com.PARE..|..thee.TO..|..a.SUM..|..mer’s DAY?

11. Repetition repeating words or line to reinforce meaning or theme. Ex:
Busy as a BEE!

12. Alliteration
Repetition of an initial consonant sound

13. Figurative Language
figure of speech used to create word pictures, or images.
simile
metaphor
Hyperbole
onomatopoeia
personification
symbolism
imagery

14. Simile: comparison that uses the words “like” or “as.”
Example: She is as sad as a rainy day
Explanation: Her mood is compared to a rainy day.

15. Metaphor: comparison that doesn’t use like or as.
Example: When Mariam complains, she is a squeaky wheel.
Explanation: Mariam is being compared to a squeaky wheel.

16. Hyperbole
Figure of speech that uses exaggeration to express strong emotion or to create a comic effect
Example:
That joke is so old; the last time I heard it I was riding on a dinosaur.
I am so hungry I could eat a horse.
“It was so cold that I saw polar bears wearing jackets”

17. Onomatopoeia Words that sound like their meaning. Examples: Boom Ring
Sprinkle
Squirt
KAZOOM!

18. Personification: when human qualities are assigned to non-human things.
Example: The wind roared through the alley.
Explanation: The wind sounded as if it were roaring.