52 Reaons Why I Hate 52 Reaons Why I Hate PoetryPoetry

By: Zackary CollevechioBy: Zackary Collevechio

Anti-metabole Anti-metabole

the repetition of words in successive the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical clauses, but in transposed grammatical

order order

You stood up for America, now America must stand up for you.

Eye RhymeEye Rhyme

a similarity in spelling between words that a similarity in spelling between words that are pronounced differently and hence, not are pronounced differently and hence, not

an auditory rhymean auditory rhyme

Height, weightHeight, weight

Identical RhymeIdentical Rhyme

When a word rhymes with itselfWhen a word rhymes with itself

We paused before a house that seemed                  A Swelling of the Ground--

                  The Roof was scarcely visible--                    The Cornice--in the Ground.

Blank VerseBlank Verse

Poetry written in unrhymed iambic Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameterpentameter

You stars that reign'd at my nativity,Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,

Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mistInto entrails of yon labouring clouds,

That when they vomit forth into the air,My limbs may issue from their smoky mouths,So that my soul may but ascend to Heaven.

CoupletCouplet

a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have consists of two lines that rhyme and have

the same meter. the same meter.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd;What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd.

Heroic CoupletHeroic Couplet

  poems constructed from a sequence of poems constructed from a sequence of rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines rhyming pairs of iambic pentameter lines

O could I flow like thee, and make thy streamMy great example, as it is my theme!

Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not dull;Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.

TercetTercet

composed of three lines of poetry, forming composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem a stanza or a complete poem

My mother’s maids, when they did sew and spin,

They sang sometimes a song of the field mouse,That for because their livelihood was but so thin

Terza RimaTerza Rimaa rhyming verse stanza form that consists a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme

-the rhyme scheme is A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D.

I have been one acquainted with the night. (a)I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. (b)

I have outwalked the furthest city light. (a)I have looked down the saddest city lane. (b)

I have passed by the watchman on his beat (c)And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. (b)

I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet (c)When far away an interrupted cry (d)

Came over houses from another street, (c)But not to call me back or say good-bye; (d)

And further still at an unearthly height (a)One luminary clock against the sky (d)

Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. (a)I have been one acquainted with the night. (a)

VillanelleVillanelle

A villanelle is nineteen A villanelle is nineteen

lines long, consisting of lines long, consisting of

five tercets and one five tercets and one

concluding quattrain. concluding quattrain.

They are all gone away,The House is shut and still,

There is nothing more to say.Through broken walls and grayThe winds blow bleak and shrill.

They are all gone away.Nor is there one to-day

To speak them good or ill:There is nothing more to say.

Why is it then we strayAround the sunken sill?They are all gone away,And our poor fancy-playFor them is wasted skill:

There is nothing more to say.There is ruin and decayIn the House on the Hill:They are all gone away,

There is nothing more to say.

QuatrainQuatrain

A stanza consisting of four lines of verseA stanza consisting of four lines of verse

The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me

LyricLyric

a genre of poetry that expresses personal a genre of poetry that expresses personal and emotional feelings and emotional feelings

I heard a fly buzz when I died;The stillness round my formWas like the stillness in the airBetween the heaves of storm.

OdeOde

an elaboratelyan elaborately structured poem structured poem Praising or glorifying Praising or glorifying an event or individual,an event or individual,describing naturedescribing natureintellectuallyintellectually as well as as well as emotionally. emotionally.

On Ship! New billows sweep thee out

Seaward. What wilt thou? Hold the port, be stoutSee'st not thy mast

How rent by stiff Southwestern blast?Thy side, of rowers how forlorn?

Thine hull, with groaning yards, with rigging torn,Can ill sustain

The fierce, and ever fiercer main;Thy gods, no more than sails entire,

From whom yet once they need might aid require,Oh Pontic Pine,

The first of woodland stocks is thine.Yet race and name are but as dust,

Not painted sterns gave storm-tost seamen trust;Unless thou dare

To be the sport of storms, beware.O fold at best a weary weight,

A yearning care and constant strain of late,O shun the seas

That girt those glittering Cyclades

EpigramEpigram

a brief, interesting, usually memorable and a brief, interesting, usually memorable and sometimes surprising statement. sometimes surprising statement.

I hate and I love. Perhaps you ask why I do this.I know not, but I feel that it is happening, and am tormented greatly.

EpithetEpithet

descriptive term (word or phrase) descriptive term (word or phrase) accompanying or occurring in place of a accompanying or occurring in place of a

name and having entered common usagename and having entered common usage

Alexander The Great Alexander The Great

Free VerseFree Verse

a form of poetry that refrains from a form of poetry that refrains from consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any

other musical pattern. other musical pattern.

The fog comeson little cat feet.

 It sits looking

over harbor and cityon silent haunchesand then moves on.

 

Prose PoemsProse Poems

poetry written in prose instead of poetry written in prose instead of using verse but preserving poetic qualities using verse but preserving poetic qualities

such as heightened imagery and such as heightened imagery and emotional effects. emotional effects.

If lilies are lily white if they exhaust noise and distance and even dust,

if they dusty will dirt a surface that has no extreme grace, if they do this and it is not necessary it is not at all necessary

if they do this they need a catalogue.

AphorismAphorism

an original thought, spoken or written in an original thought, spoken or written in a concise and memorable form a concise and memorable form

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience deceptive, judgment difficult

ElegyElegy

a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem especially a funeral song or a lament for especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. the dead.

Here Captain! dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on deck,You've fallen cold and dead.-"O Captain! My Captain!" by Walt Whitman.

PastoralPastoralrefers to a literary work dealing with refers to a literary work dealing with

shepherds and rustic life. Common topics shepherds and rustic life. Common topics include love and seduction.include love and seduction.

COME live with me and be my Love,And we will all the pleasures prove

That hills and valleys, dale and field,And all the craggy mountains yield.

.There will we sit upon the rocks

And see the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers, to whose fallsMelodious birds sing madrigals.

.There will I make thee beds of roses

And a thousand fragrant posies,A cap of flowers, and a kirtle

Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle

BalladBallad

a form of verse, often a narrative set to a form of verse, often a narrative set to music music

The horse| fair Ann|et rode| upon|He amb|led like| the wind|,With sil|ver he| was shod| before,With burn|ing gold| behind|

Italian SonnetItalian Sonnet

First, the octave (two quatrains), forms the First, the octave (two quatrains), forms the "proposition," which describes a "proposition," which describes a "problem," followed by "problem," followed by a sestet (two tercets), which proposes a a sestet (two tercets), which proposes a resolution. Typically, the ninth line creates resolution. Typically, the ninth line creates what is called the "turn" or "volta." what is called the "turn" or "volta."

Italian SonnetItalian Sonnet

When I consider how my light is spent (a)When I consider how my light is spent (a) Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b) Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, (b) And that one talent which is death to hide, (b) And that one talent which is death to hide, (b) Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a) Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent (a)To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a)To serve therewith my Maker, and present (a) My true account, lest he returning chide; (b) My true account, lest he returning chide; (b) "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b) "Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?" (b) I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a) I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent (a)That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c)That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need (c) Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d) Either man's work or his own gifts; who best (d) Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e) Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state (e)Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c)Is Kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed (c) And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d) And post o'er land and ocean without rest; (d) They also serve who only stand and wait." (e)  They also serve who only stand and wait." (e)

Spenserian SonnetSpenserian Sonnet

the rhyme scheme is, the rhyme scheme is, abab, bcbc, cdcd, abab, bcbc, cdcd, eeee.  . 

Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands, (a)Which hold my life in their dead doing might, (b)Shall handle you, and hold in love's soft bands, (a)Like captives trembling at the victor's sight. (b)And happy lines on which, with starry light, (b)Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look,(c)And read the sorrows of my dying sprite, (b)Written with tears in heart's close bleeding book. (c)And happy rhymes! bathed in the sacred brook (c)Of Helicon, whence she derived is, (d)When ye behold that angel's blessed look, (c)My soul's long lacked food, my heaven's bliss. (d)Leaves, lines, and rhymes seek her to please alone, (e)Whom if ye please, I care for other none. (e)

Shakespearian SonnetShakespearian Sonnet

The form consists of fourteen lines The form consists of fourteen lines structured as three quatrains and a structured as three quatrains and a couplet. The third quatrain generally couplet. The third quatrain generally introduces an unexpected sharp thematic introduces an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn"; the volta. In or imagistic "turn"; the volta. In Shakespeare's sonnets, however, the Shakespeare's sonnets, however, the volta usually comes in the couplet, and volta usually comes in the couplet, and usually summarizes the theme of the usually summarizes the theme of the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the poem or introduces a fresh new look at the theme. theme.

Shakesperian SonnetShakesperian Sonnet

Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)Let me not to the marriage of true minds (a)Admit impediments, love is not love (b)*Admit impediments, love is not love (b)*Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)Which alters when it alteration finds, (a)Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)*Or bends with the remover to remove. (b)*O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (c)**O no, it is an ever fixèd mark (c)**That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)***That looks on tempests and is never shaken; (d)***It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (c)**It is the star to every wand'ring bark, (c)**Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)***Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken. (d)***Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks (e)Within his bending sickle's compass come, (f)*Within his bending sickle's compass come, (f)*Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, (e)But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (f)*But bears it out even to the edge of doom: (f)*

– If this be error and upon me proved, (g)*If this be error and upon me proved, (g)*

– I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)I never writ, nor no man ever loved. (g)

VoltaVolta

The turning point of the poem (line 14 The turning point of the poem (line 14 here)here)

Who will in fairest book of Nature knowHow Virtue may best lodged in Beauty be,Let him but learn of Love to read in thee,

Stella, those fair lines, which true goodness show.There shall he find all vices' overthrow,

Not by rude force, but sweetest sovereigntyOf reason, from whose light those night-birds fly;

That inward sun in thine eyes shineth so.And not content to be Perfection's heir

Thyself, dost strive all minds that way to move,Who mark in thee what is in thee most fair.So while thy beauty draws the heart to love,As fast thy Virtue bends that love to good.

"But, ah," Desire still cries, "give me some food."

AntithesisAntithesis

a counter-proposition and denotes a a counter-proposition and denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.  direct contrast to the original proposition. 

Man proposes, God disposes

Dramatic MonologueDramatic Monologue

A form of poetry that can be both acted out and said A form of poetry that can be both acted out and said aloud at the same timealoud at the same time

Why am I standing here, alone, When outside you are knocking, Why am I standing here, alone, When outside you are knocking, knocking? I cannot come to you- My feet are glued to the floor. knocking? I cannot come to you- My feet are glued to the floor. Forgive me, but I feared you! Would that you could open the door, Forgive me, but I feared you! Would that you could open the door, But I have locked it! Ah! What sorrow I have brought upon myself! But I have locked it! Ah! What sorrow I have brought upon myself! How you shout, how you plead for entrance And how I want you to How you shout, how you plead for entrance And how I want you to enter, But you have not the strenth to break the door. Well, come on enter, But you have not the strenth to break the door. Well, come on then! Find another way in! then! Find another way in!

ImageryImagery

Using descriptive words to create images Using descriptive words to create images for the readerfor the reader

On a starry winter night in PortugalWhere the ocean kissed the southern shoreThere a dream I never thought would come to passCame and went like time spent through an hourglass”-Teena Marie, “Portuguese Love”

PersonaPersona

The speaker or voice of a literary work, in The speaker or voice of a literary work, in other words, the person who’s doing the other words, the person who’s doing the talkingtalking

In Robert Browning's My Last Duchess, the persona is the Duke of Ferrara.

In John Keats' Ode to a Nightingale, the persona is not identified, so it is up to the reader to infer whether it is the author himself or a speaker

conceived by the poet for a particular effect. 

AnaphoraAnaphora

a rhetorical device that consists of a rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses, beginnings of neighboring clauses, thereby lending them emphasis. thereby lending them emphasis.

What the hammer? what the chain?In what furnace was thy brain?

What the anvil? what dread graspDare its deadly terrors clasp?

MetonymyMetonymy

A figure of speech used in rhetoric in A figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or intimately associated with that thing or concept. concept.

Using Hollywood to describe the film Using Hollywood to describe the film industryindustry

ParadoxParadox

a logical statement or group of statements a logical statement or group of statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation that lead to a contradiction or a situation which (if true) defies logic or reason which (if true) defies logic or reason

Jumbo ShrimpJumbo Shrimp

Paronomasia Paronomasia

a form of word play which suggests two or a form of word play which suggests two or more meanings, by exploiting multiple more meanings, by exploiting multiple meanings of words, or of similar-sounding meanings of words, or of similar-sounding words, for an words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect intended humorous or rhetorical effect

Atheism is a non-prophet institution

AsyndentonAsyndenton

a stylistic scheme in a stylistic scheme in which conjunctions are deliberately which conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses.  omitted from a series of related clauses. 

government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth

ConceitConceit

an extended metaphor with a an extended metaphor with a complex logic that governs a poetic complex logic that governs a poetic

passage or entire poempassage or entire poem

Oh stay! three lives in one flea spareWhere we almost, yea more than married are.   This flea is you and I, and thisOur marriage-bed and marriage-temple is.

SynecdocheSynecdoche

Part of something is used to refer to the Part of something is used to refer to the whole thing whole thing

““All hands on deck”All hands on deck”

Synesthesia Synesthesia

Confusing one sense with anotherConfusing one sense with another

The pie was exploding purple in my mouthThe pie was exploding purple in my mouth

Litote Litote

a figure of speech in a figure of speech in which understatement is employed for which understatement is employed for

rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed rhetorical effect when an idea is expressed by a denial of its opposite by a denial of its opposite

No, I don’t know who Charles Dickens is.No, I don’t know who Charles Dickens is.

AssonanceAssonance

the repetition of vowel soundsthe repetition of vowel sounds

Dead in the middle of little Italy, little did we know that we riddled two middle men who didn't do diddily."

ConsonanceConsonance

The repetition of consonant soundsThe repetition of consonant sounds

He struck a streak of bad luck. 

AlliterationAlliteration

The repetition of letters at the beginning of The repetition of letters at the beginning of wordswords

Sally sold sea shells at the sea shoreSally sold sea shells at the sea shore

CaesuraCaesura

a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a a complete pause in a line of poetry or in a musical composition.  musical composition. 

To err is human; || to forgive, divine.

End-stoppedEnd-stopped

When the units of sense in a passage of poetry coincide When the units of sense in a passage of poetry coincide with the verses, and the sense does not run on from one with the verses, and the sense does not run on from one

verse to anotherverse to another

With that some cried, "Away!" Straight IWith that some cried, "Away!" Straight IObeyed, and ledObeyed, and led

Full east, a fair, fresh field could spy;Full east, a fair, fresh field could spy;Some called it Jacob's bed,Some called it Jacob's bed,

A virgin soil which noA virgin soil which noRude feet ere trod,Rude feet ere trod,

Where, since he stepped there, only goWhere, since he stepped there, only goProphets and friends of God. Prophets and friends of God.

EnjambmentEnjambment

When a line of poetry runs on without When a line of poetry runs on without pausing or stoppingpausing or stopping

I am not prone to weeping, as our sexCommonly are; the want of which vain dewPerchance shall dry your pities; but I have

That honourable grief lodged here which burnsWorse than tears drown.

EuphonyEuphony

A beautiful soundA beautiful sound

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; 

Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;

CacophonyCacophony

A terrible soundA terrible sound

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe.

Exact RhymeExact Rhyme

when the later part of the word or phrase when the later part of the word or phrase is identical sounding to that of anotheris identical sounding to that of another

Sky high Sky high

Internal RhymeInternal Rhyme

  rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse.rhyme that occurs in a single line of verse.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Cliché RhymeCliché Rhyme

Over used rhymesOver used rhymes

On this starlit On this starlit night,night,  The moon is so The moon is so brightbright  

Shining its Shining its light,light,  And I feel And I feel alright.alright.   

Iambic RhythmIambic Rhythm

When the meter and rhythm of words is When the meter and rhythm of words is the samethe same

A line of iambic pentameter is five iambic feet in a row:

Inexact RhymeInexact Rhyme

Words that almost rhyme, but not exactly.Words that almost rhyme, but not exactly.

Dine, timeDine, time

Closed RhymeClosed Rhyme

The rhyming words end with a hard The rhyming words end with a hard consonantconsonant

Dog, clogDog, clog

ApostropheApostrophe

an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, an exclamatory rhetorical figure of speech, when a speaker or writer breaks off and when a speaker or writer breaks off and directs speech to an imaginary person or directs speech to an imaginary person or abstract quality or idea. abstract quality or idea.

Where, O death, thy sting? where, O death, thy victory?

Poem 1Poem 1

A night train passes:A night train passes:pictures of the dead are trembling pictures of the dead are trembling 

on the mantelpieceon the mantelpiece

Theme- deathTheme- death

Images- darkness, pictures of the deadImages- darkness, pictures of the dead

Literary devices- imagery, end-stopped, Literary devices- imagery, end-stopped, alliteration/consonancealliteration/consonance

Poem 2Poem 2

the puppetthe puppetleaning from his boothleaning from his booth

blinks at the rainblinks at the rain

Literary Devices- Personification, Literary Devices- Personification, consonanceconsonance

Poem 3Poem 3

an empty elevatoran empty elevatoropensopensclosescloses

Literary devices- symbolism, asyndeton Literary devices- symbolism, asyndeton

Theme- existentialism Theme- existentialism

Poem 4Poem 4

walk's end . . .walk's end . . .the cold of his handthe cold of his hand

shook mineshook mine

Literary devices- imagery, end-stopped, Literary devices- imagery, end-stopped, caesura caesura

Poem 5Poem 5

the swan's headthe swan's headturns away from the sunsetturns away from the sunset

to his dark sideto his dark side

Literary devices- personification, alliterationLiterary devices- personification, alliteration

Theme- evilTheme- evil

Poem 6Poem 6

Right in the middleRight in the middleof a cat's yawn-- of a cat's yawn-- 

a pink tonguea pink tongue..

Literary devices- caesura, imagery Literary devices- caesura, imagery

Poem 7Poem 7

perfect summer sky--perfect summer sky--one blue crayonone blue crayon

missing from the boxmissing from the box

Literary devices- end stopped, ironyLiterary devices- end stopped, irony

Theme- don’t sweat the small stuffTheme- don’t sweat the small stuff

Poem 8Poem 8

moonlit coyotes crymoonlit coyotes crythe cat stirs,the cat stirs,

safe by the firesafe by the fire

Literary devices- alliteration, consonance, Literary devices- alliteration, consonance, slant rhyme, asyndetonslant rhyme, asyndeton