1. Poetry December 2010

2. Poetry Definition: the art made up of poems, texts with charged, compressed language Acute perceptions Vivid impressions Compressed language Musically rhythmic use of language Heightened sense of attentiveness

3. Modes of Poetry Prose poem Free verse poem Metrical verse poem

4. Prose Poem Maintains poetic quality Uses fragmentation, compression, repetition and rhyme; not written in discrete lines Can range in length from a few lines to several pages Heightened use of intense, condensed language and metaphors Example – Just Listen by Peter Johnson

5. Free Verse Poem T.S. Eliot wrote, “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.” Lines are not measured in anyway, yet are structured according to repetition and variation of words, phrases, and structure Short-lined free verse Long-lined free verse Variable-length free verse Spatial or typographical arrangement

6. Free Verse Poem Short-lined Range between one syllable and several words An inch or two of type Between one and three stresses Example – Giraffe by Stanley Plumly

7. Free Verse Poem Long-lined Lines stretch between left and right margins More often end-stopped than enjambed Enjambment: the use of a line whose sense and rhythmic movement continues to the next line Example – A Noiseless Patient Spider, Walt Whitman and i carry your heart by e.e. cummings

8. Free Verse Poem Variable-length Mixes short lines with medium-length and long lines Regular irregularity Based on average line that is medium in length, shortening or lengthening for rhythmic or expressive purposes Most common form of free-verse Example – The Soul Selects Her Own Society by Emily Dickinson

9. Free Verse Poem Spatial/typographical Uses the page as a kind of canvas for the spatial arrangement of words, phrases and lines which can be scattered widely or blocked together Example – In Just by e.e. cummings

10. Metrical Verse Poem Lines measured by a regular count of syllables, accents or both, such as a sonnet

11. Metrical Verse Poem - Sonnet A poem of fourteen lines, usually rhymed, usually written in iambic pentameter; a song usurped by ideas