1. Introduction to Poetry

2. Poetry Defined by Concise Encyclopedia Writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through its meaning, sound, and rhythm. It may be distinguished from prose by its compression, frequent use of conventions of metre and rhyme, use of the line as a formal unit, heightened vocabulary, and freedom of syntax. Its emotional content is expressed through a variety of techniques, from direct description to symbolism, including the use of metaphor and simile.

3. ʚ A Japanese poem ʚ 3 unrhymed lines ʚ 5-7-5 ʚ reflects on some aspect of nature and creates images. Morning commuters follow measured lines, honking- how like geese we are Haiku

4. ʚ Written in unrhymed iambic pentameter. ʚ The form often resembles the rhythms of ordinary speech. ʚ William Shakespeare wrote most of his plays in blank verse. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Blank Verse

5. ʚ Composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines ʚ Have no set fixed metrical pattern. ʚ The early 20th-century I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loaf and invite my soul, I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Free Verse

6. ʚ Has five lines. ʚ Line 1 is one word (the title) ʚ Line 2 is two words that describe the title. ʚ Line 3 is three words that tell the action ʚ Line 4 is four words that express the feeling ʚ Line 5 is one word that recalls the title Cinquain

7. Tree Strong, Tall Swaying, swinging, sighing Memories of summer Oak

8. ʚ Only two lines which usually rhyme. I swam in a pool But it was to cool. Couplet

9. ʚ English (Shakespearean): Three quatrains & a concluding couplet. ʚ ABAB ʚ CDCD ʚ EFEF ʚ GG ʚ Italian (Petrarchan): divided into an octave and a sestet ʚ ABBAABBA ʚ c d c d c d c d d c d c c d e c d e c d e c e d c d c e d c Sonnet 14 lines

10. English Sonnet That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west; Which by and by black night doth take away, Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire, That on the ashes of his youth doth lie, As the death-bed, whereon it must expire, Consumed with that which it was nourish'd by. This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong, To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.

11. Italian Sonnet I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air - And feathered crooner's warble to revere - Then cross a golden sea of flowing grain In empathy - it seems to sense my pain Of knowing all was done with my affair - Her empty meaning now the solitaire She cast away - betrothment all in vain. But oceans team with many fish to catch So I must up and hoist another sail And seek the one that really waits for me, For soon auspicious breezes will prevail In guiding forth to find a truer match: The one to take my hand as wife to be.