POETRYClass Notes

Poetry definition:

Originated as an oral tradition of songs and stories passed down from one generation to another

One of the three major categories of literature◦Drama◦Poetry◦Prose

  Contains concise, musical, rhythmic & emotionally

charged language 

Meant to be read aloud

  

Usually divided into lines and stanzas

Some poems use rhyming language  Uses rhythmical patterns called meters

Contains imagery, symbolism and figurative language

Elements of Poetry:

Mood: the mood is the emotional tone, atmosphere or feeling the poem creates in the reader.

Examples: Joyous, gloomy, suspenseful, humorous, anxious, optimistic, pessimistic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_-U6dcTEOg

Mood: Jealous, depressed, disappointed

Elements of Poetry:

Form: poets use rhyme and rhythm to enhance their language, they may choose a specific “formula” or none at all

◦ Haiku: A 3 line poem following a specific rhythm pattern; line 1=5 syllables, line 2=7 syllables, line 3=5 syllables. The subject of a Haiku is always something from nature

◦ Concrete: a poem that doesn’t have lines or stanzas. The words of the poem create a picture which is the subject of the poem

◦ Other forms: Limericks, Lyric poem, Narrative poem, Free Verse, etc.

 

  

Elements of Poetry:

Form: The type of a poem

◦ Haiku: A 3 line poem following a specific rhythm pattern; includes a vivid description, usually about nature.

◦ Concrete: poem is in the shape of what it is talking about.

◦ Free verse: No rhyme or line patterns

◦ Narrative poem: tells a story 

  

Elements of Poetry (continued):

Figurative Language: ◦words and phrases not meant to be taken

literally◦has a deeper meaning◦Tools writers use

  

Elements of Poetry (continued):

◦ Imagery Clear images to describe objects, moods or ideas. Uses the five senses Used to make you think or feel something.

Example:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDAVyScgGLo

Example: He gives his harness bells a shake, to ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweep of easy wind and downy flake.

  

Figurative Language (continued):

◦Hyperbole: An exaggeration for the purpose of emphasis.

◦Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUkgKFfIBJ0 Example: It’s raining cats and dogs.The walls were so thin, you could hear a mosquito sneeze at the end of the hallway.

  

Figurative Language(continued):

◦Metaphor: Compares two unlike things by describing one thing as though it were the other without using “like” or “as”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9y11A4VFk

Example: Her eyes were an ocean of sadness.

  

Figurative Language (continued):

◦Simile: Compares two unlike things using “like” or “as”.

◦Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_9y11A4VFk

Example: She was as pale as a ghost.

The rumors spread like wildfire.

Figurative Language(continued):

◦Symbolism: the representation of ideas or things by other images or symbols. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh2Wj1EoF78

The soldiers raised the white flag after a long and tumultuous battle.

(raising the white flag = surrender)

Figurative Language (continued):

◦Personification: giving human qualities to animals, ideas or objects. Example:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGzgoSg5OZg

This test is killing me. Randall’s pet rock is very well behaved.

Elements of Poetry:

Sound Devices: enhance a poem’s mood and meaning by giving the poem a songlike quality, noted when a poem is read out loud.

  

Elements of Poetry:

Sound Devices:

◦Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.

◦https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeWOMNMVGNg

Example:

She slid down the slippery slope.Fearless felines forage the forest for

food.

  

Elements of Poetry Sound Devices (continued):

◦Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like the things they name.

◦https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGa_C4_ygZM

Example:

Boom, buzz, cuckoo, hiss, meow, roar.She swished down the ski slope.

  

Elements of Poetry Sound Devices (continued):

◦Repetition: Using a word or phrase more than once in the same or nearby lines for effect or to make a point. Example:

Keeping time, time, timeIn a sort of Runic rhyme,To the tintinnabulation that so musically

wellsFrom the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bellsFrom the jingling and the tinkling of the

bells.

  

Elements of Poetry

◦ Rhyme: the repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Example: made/played/raid/

Internal Rhyme: rhymes are in the same line.

End rhyme: rhymes occur at the end of lines.

Slant rhyme: close to rhyming but not quite.I canEat a ham.Orange/door hinge

  

Biographical Infob. September 28, 1988 New York City, NY

Justin Nozuka is a Japanese-American singer-songwriter. Justin was born in New York to a Japanese father and an Canadian mother. At the age of 8 Justin moved to Toronto, Canada with his mother and 4 brothers, Henry, Christian, George and Philip and 2 sisters Sandra (Sandy) and Margret.He began writing songs at the age of 12. In grade 9 he learned how to play the guitar from some Mexican friends when attending St. Andrews College, a boarding school in Aurora, Onario. Come the age of 16, Justin was already playing solos in clubs and houses. His debut album "Holly" is named after his brave mother, who raised her seven children as a single mother.