1. What is poetry? The art of a poet Literary work in verse of
high quality
great beauty
intense emotions or
deep insight

2. What is verse? What is meter? What is rhythm?
Writing characterized by its meter.
What is meter?
The rhythm of poetry
What is rhythm?
Pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables

3. This is rhythm…. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night….
-- William Blake ( )

4. Let’s review… What is poetry?
Poetry is verse – writing with a meter – and meter is the rhythm of poetry.

5. What is an image? An actual or mental picture
There’s a smell of damp hay,
Of horses, laziness,
Summer sky and eternal life.
Charles Simic
Summer Morning

6. What is imagery? The wind blows and the leaves shiver in the sun.
Vivid descriptions that produce mental pictures
The wind blows and the leaves shiver in the sun.

7. Images begin with the senses
A poet is a professor of the five senses.
-Federico Garcia Lorca

8. Sense Star©

9. Sense Star
Sight
Sound
Touch
Taste
Smell

10. Unexpected Comparisons Spark Interest
A banjo has a shining shiver.
Its twangs will glitter like the light
on splashing water ….
-- Robert Morgan in “The Grain of Sound”
We associate banjos with our sense of hearing. The visual comparison surprises us.

11. Is this comparison as interesting?
… a new piano with its mahogany gleam
like pond ice at dawn ….
-- B. H. Fairchild