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Poetry What the heck is it?
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Basic definitions and types 1.the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 2.literary work in metrical form; verse. 3.prose with poetic qualities. 4.poetic qualities however manifested: the poetry of simple acts and things. 5.poetic spirit or feeling: The pianist played the prelude with poetry. 6.something suggestive of or likened to poetry: the pure poetry of a beautiful view on a clear day.
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Types of Poetry Lyric poetry: expresses vivid thought and feelings (most common type) Narrative poetry: tells a story Dramatic poetry: uses techniques of drama, such as speaker and conflict, to tell a story
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Poetic devices Musical devices: devices that give a poem a melodious quality Alliteration: repetition of initial consonant sounds Ex: terrible truths terrified Terrance Onomatopoeia: A word that imitates the sound (s) it represents Ex: buzz, smack, wham, crash, sizzle etc. Assonance: repetition of a vowel sound Ex: ignorance is disguised within insult
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Consonance: the repetition of consonant sounds Ex: haggard ragged hog Meter: the rhythmical pattern of a poem, determined by the number and types of stresses, or beats, in each line. Ex: I wandered lonely as a cloud
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Repetition: the use of any element of language – a sound, word, phrase, clause, or sentence- more than once. I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us-don't tell! They'd banish us you know. -- Emily Dickinson “I'm nobody! Who are You?” Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could. -- Robert Frost “The Road Not Taken”
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Rhyme scheme: a regular pattern of rhyming words that appear at the ends of lines in a poem. Figurative language: devices that give creative and unexpected comparisons and descriptions Simile: a comparison using “like” or “as” Ex: Her eyes are like diamonds. Metaphor: a direct comparison of two things. Ex: Robert is a tank. Personification: gives human characteristics to non- human things. Ex: The wind whispered through the trees.
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Imagery: very descriptive language that creates detailed images in a reader’s mind. Ex: The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. -- Ezra Pound "In a Station of the Metro" Symbol: an object that represents something else. Ex: the color black- death, sadness, depression, etc.
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Free Verse –Poem written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc –Poet makes rules about how poem should look, sound, feel, etc –Example: Beautiful Old Age by D.H. Lawrence (partial) 1 It ought to be lovely to be old 2 to be full of the peace that comes of experience 3 and wrinkled ripe fulfillment. 4 The wrinkled smile of completeness that follows a life 5 lived undaunted and unsoured with accepted lies. 6 If people lived without accepting lie 7 they would ripen like apples, and be scented like pippins 7 8 in their old age.
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So, what else is poetry? Poetry in motion Forgetfulness by Billy Collins Like, You Know making a poem
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