1. Poetic Forms

2. Textbook Explain what this passage is about.
Why does Mickey Mouse have four fingers? Conversations with many cartoonists, animators, and Disney employees confirm that Mickey Mouse has four fingers because it is convenient for the artists and animators who have drawn him. In the early cartoons, each frame was hand-drawn by an animator. No part of the human body is harder to draw than a hand, and it is difficult to draw distinct fingers without making the whole hand look too large.
Textbook
Explain what this passage is about.
Was it easy to understand?

3. Conceptually, the Nyquist diagram is plotted by substituting the points of the contour. This process is equivalent to performing complex arithmetic using the vectors of G(s) drawn to the points of the contour. Each pole and zero term of G(s) is a vector. The resultant vector, R, found at any point along the contour is in general the product of the zero vectors divided by the product of the pole vectors. Thus, the magnitude of the resultant is the product of the zero lengths divided by the product of the pole lengths, and the angle of the resultant is the sum of the zero angles minus the sum of the pole angles.
Textbook
Explain what this passage is about.
You probably had trouble understanding the harder textbook, because we do not understand the way that it is written.
Poetry can be like this, too. This is what can make it hard. In this unit, I will teach you how to understand poetry

4. Some poems have formulas. Here is the “Rotten Poem” formula. Try it!
My rotten poem:
In the headphones of my mind
I can taste the drumming of your fingers
I sat down and ate a piece of buttered toast
And smiled at the day ahead of me.
What do you think of this poem?
Do you like it?
What is this poem about?
Some poems have formulas. Here is the “Rotten Poem” formula. Try it!
A Rotten Poem
In the ____(noun)____ of my mind
(Combine your senses)
(A non-exciting activity, written in the past tense)
(A statement that shows some optimism about the future)

5. Read your Rotten poem to the class
What do we think?
Are these poems any good?
They may be fun or easy to write but they are not the best.
It’s because they have NO theme. They just have a framework like a blueprint.
Why?
Theme!!
A good poem must have a

6. Bio Poems What about this one? It has a theme. Do you like this one?
George Truthful, responsible, reliable, friendly Relative of Lawrence Washington Who loves farming, soldiers, adventure Who feels proud, grateful, brave Who needs medicine, better teeth, to retire to Mount Vernon Who fears his country losing freedom or independence, false teeth Who gives help, friendship, love Who would like to see no slavery, a free country, people working together Resident of Mount Vernon Washington
What about this one? It has a theme.
Do you like this one?
Is it good poetry?

7. Although it has a theme it limits creativity and originality
I say No! why?
Bio Poem Framework:
Line 1: Your first name only
Line 2: Four adjectives that describe you
Line 3: Son/daughter of __
Line 4: Lover of (name three things-phrases work best)
Line 5: Who feels (name three)
In the following sections, writer may name as many as they like.
Line 6: Who finds happiness in __
Line 7: Who needs __
Line 8: Who gives __
Line 9: Who fears __
Line 10: Who would like to see __
Line 11: Who enjoys __
Line 12: Who likes to wear __
Line 13: Resident of (city or neighbourhood)
Line 14: Your last name only
Although it has a theme it limits creativity and originality

8. Forms of Poetry Just a few…There are Many more!
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Forms of Poetry Just a few…There are Many more!
Descriptive poem Fork ballad
Literary Ballad Diamante
Narrative Poem
Found Poem
Epic poem Tanka
Rotten
Dramatic poem
Elegy
Sonnet
Epigram
Epitaph
Odes
Cinquain
Concrete
Free Verse Poem
Dramatic
Bio
Ones in red, are the poems we will be writing in class
Watch This! - Other Forms and Traditions in Poetry by Shmoop
(2:33mins):
Acrostic Lyric
Diamante Limerick
Haiku

9. Open & Closed Poetry is written in closed or open form
Open form poetry is characterized by the lack of pattern. The content creates the form.
Closed form poetry is characterized by patterns: verse, rhyme, meter and/or syllable. The content fits into the form.

10. Shape poem Free Verse Concrete
Open Form Poetry
Not all poetry needs to be in a framework. Nor does it have to have correct punctuation or grammar.
Content determines the form of the poem.
Punctuation, line breaks, and white spaces become very important in open form poetry.
Shape poem
Free Verse
Concrete

11. Free Verse
“MOTHER TO SON By Langston Hughes
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinter,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
But all the time
I’se been a-climbin’ on
And reachin’ landin’s
And turnin’ corners,
And sometimes goin’ in the dark
Where there ain’t been no light.
So, boy, don’t you turn back.
Don’t you set down on the steps
‘Cause you finds it kinder hard.
Don’t you fall now—
For I’se still goin’, honey,
I’se still climbin’,
And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content is free of traditional rules of versification,
(freedom from fixed meter or rhyme).
In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks.
Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader.
It often mimics natural speech.

12. Concrete Poems Words create picture More a visual than a literary form
Related to Pop Art

13. Lee Gately

14. Roger McGough

15. LEO PEÑA

16. Forsythia By Mary Ellen Solt
How does the layout of a concrete poem contribute to its meaning?

17. Shape poem Create a picture or visual pattern
Content is more important than shape
Content follows general grammatical rules
Shape complements content of poem

18. Easter Wings by George Herbert
Lord, Who createdst man in wealth and store, Though foolishly he lost the same, Decaying more and more, Till he became Most poore: With Thee O let me rise, As larks, harmoniously, And sing this day Thy victories: Then shall the fall further the flight in me My tender age in sorrow did beginne; And still with sicknesses and shame Thou didst so punish sinne, That I became Most thinne With Thee Let me combine, And feel this day Thy victorie; For, if I imp my wing on Thine, Affliction shall advance the flight in me.

19. Swan and Shadow John Hollander Dusk Above the water hang the loud
flies
Here
O so
gray
then
What A pale signal will appear
When Soon before its shadow fades
Where Here in this pool of opened eye
In us No Upon us As at the very edges
of where we take shape in the dark air
this object bares its image awakening ripples of recognition that will
brush darkness up into light
even after this bird this hour both drift by atop the perfect sad instant now
already passing out of sight
toward yet-untroubled reflection
this image bears its object darkening
into memorial shades Scattered bits of
light No of water Or something across
water Breaking up No Being regathered
soon Yet by then a swan will have
gone Yes out of mind into what
vast
pale
hush
of a
place
past
sudden dark as
if a swan
sang
Swan and Shadow
John Hollander

20. Recognizable patterns
Closed form poems
Recognizable patterns
Patterns can be determined by:
Stanza length
Metrical pattern (ex: iambic pentameter)
Rhyme scheme
Syllable count

21. Meter Review Patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables
The basic unit of meter is a foot.
Most common feet in English poetry:
Iamb  /
Trochee / 
Anapest   /
Dactyl /  
Spondee / /
Pyrrhic  

22. Review Metrical Lines One foot monometer Two feet dimeter
Three feet trimeter
Four feet tetrameter
Five feet pentameter
Six feet hexameter
Seven feet heptameter
Eight feet octameter

23. Types of Closed Poetry
Limerick
Diamante
Cinquain
Sonnet

24. Limerick Gervaise There was a young belle of old Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!
--Ogden Nash
There was a young woman named Plunnery
Who rejoiced in the practice of gunnery
Till one day unobservant
She blew up a servant
And was forced to retire to a nunnery.
--Edward Gorey
Limerick
5 line nonsense poem
First line ends in proper name of place or person
Rhyme: aabba
Meter:
1st, 2nd and 5th lines are anapestic trimeter:   /   /   /
3rd and 4th lines are anapestic dimeter:
  /   /

25. Diamante A 7 lined poem. That is diamond in shape Rain humid, damp
Line 1: Noun or subject
Line 2: Two Adjectives describing the first noun/subject
Line 3: Three -ing words describing the first noun/subject
Line 4: Four words: two about the first noun/subject, two about the antonym/synonym
Line 5: Three -ing words about the antonym/synonym
Line 6: Two adjectives describing the antonym/synonym
Line 7: Antonym/synonym for the subject
Rain
humid, damp
refreshing, dripping, splattering
wet, slippery, cold, slushy
sliding, melting, freezing
frigid, icy
Snow

26. Cinquain
Cinquain is a short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines
Line 1: Noun
Line 2: Description of Noun
Line 3: Action
Line 4: Feeling or Effect
Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between my plate and mouth
Delicious

27. Sonnet
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?” (Sonnet 18) - Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometimes declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme. The poem is written in three quatrains and ends with a couplet
Examples of a rhyming scheme:
#1) abab cdcd efef gg
#2) abba cddc effe gg
#3) abba abba cdcd cd
Sonnets by Shmoop (2:39mins):

28. Stop and Think… Sonnet Italian origin Lyric 14 lines Iambic pentameter
Specific rhyme scheme
Stop and Think…
Explain the function of rhyme in a sonnet.

29. TRY IT!
Dramatic poem, Elegy, Sonnet, Epigram, Epitaph, Odes, Descriptive poem, Narrative Poem, Epic poem, Concrete, Dramatic
Research one of the forms of poetry listed below and then complete the following tasks:
List the form’s characteristics
Find a poem of the type written by a professional
Write a poem of your own, paying attention to the various characteristics of the poetic form you researched.