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Agenda 9/3/14

• Please place your homework in the Alpha folder on the front desk.

• Introduction to Poetry

• Review of Bless Me Ultima questions from Chapters 1-3.

• For Monday:• Quiz on BMU Ch. 1-3

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Narrative

• Tells a story

• Usually has a beginning, middle, climax, and conclusion.

• Direct and narrated speech can be used

• Often composed to record historical, political, and family events

• Passed down from generation to generation

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Ballad

• Oldest form of narrative verse

• At one stage it was sung

• Subject matter:• Love, death, war, bravery, adventure, action

• Rhythm has strong beat

• Today – songwriters

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Epic

• An epic (from the ancient Greek adjective Epikos.

• Word, story, poem

• Long narrative poem telling the story of an historical figure or event

• Has been referred to as a “novel in verse”

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Allegory

• Appears in the form of an extended metaphor

• Metaphor = a word or phrase for one thing that is used to refer to another thing in order to show or suggest that they are similar

• “He was drowning in paperwork” is a metaphor in which having to deal with a lot of paperwork is being compared to drowning in an ocean of water.

Allegory

• It conveys a veiled moral meaning

• It can be either in prose or verse

• The Wizard of Oz was originally an allegory

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Lyric Form

• The lyric is a poem with a musical or song-like quality

• The lyric conveys the personal thoughts of the poet

• It is favored by romantic poets like Wordsworth.

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Ode

• A formal tribute in phrase of something, someone, or an event.

• It describes the personal feelings of the poet.

• It was originally sung as accompaniment to a Greek dance.

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Dramatic Monologue

• Spoken in the First Person (“I”)

• The speaker addresses an invisible recipient

• From his/her words we learn more about the speaker.

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Stanzas

• Division of poem: a number of lines of verse forming a separate unit within a poem.

• Look at the layout of “I am Who I am” poem.

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Raquel Senties

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw7y-o6ogeE

“I am Who I Am, So What?”by Raquel Senties

• Any idea where this poem takes place? The setting?

• What is the mood of the poem?

• How is the poem lined out? Stanzas, lines

• Does the poem rhyme?

“I Am Who I Am, So What?”

• Is the message of the poem explicit (obvious) or implicit (implied)?

• Does it describe the author’s feelings?

• What is the poet’s attitude towards the reader?

• What is the attitude towards the subject?

• Are any tone words used?