Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
painting with words DONT (Over)THINK!!! Meant to be enjoyed Meant
to be read aloud
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Association Implications Entertaining? Drawbacks? How would you
refine?
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I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And
then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And,
supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a
quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all
the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile
and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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Lyric vs. Narrative Part 1: Sound and Structure What is sound?
Alliteration Assonance Consonance Onomatopoeia Rhythm Rhyme/rhyme
scheme Scansion/syllable stress Structure (stanzas/free verse)
Repetition/Refrain Enjambment Forced/slant rhyme Exact rhyme Types
of Poetry Ode, sonnet, ballad, etc. Part 2: Imagery Sensory imagery
Metaphor Simile Allusion Personification Hyperbole Symbolism Part
3: Meaning Subject Speaker Tone Theme Part 4: Performance
Memorization Recitation techniques
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Blends ch
th tr thr ld nt sp Etc.
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Exact rhyme: sounds in words correspond Forced/slant rhyme:
corresponding sounds are approximate enough to not break rhythm
Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyme in the poem Hickory, Dickory,
Dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse
ran down. Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The Hippopotamus I shoot the
Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum Because if I use leaden
ones His hide is sure to flatten em. --Hilaire Belloc
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Use ORANGE First line is always labeled A Everything that
rhymes with A is also A If the next line doesnt rhyme, its B New
rhyme = new letter Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The mouse ran up the
clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory, Dickory,
Dock. The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made
of platinum Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to
flatten em.
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I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And
stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a
pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides
of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl
between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then
chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as
a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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The Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words NOT letters
2 line rule: the pattern is lost RED CIRCLES Circle the SOUND Peter
Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. My Marys asleep by the
murmuring stream- Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream.
--Robert Burns, Afton Water
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I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And
then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And,
supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a
quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all
the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile
and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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Consonant sound repetition anywhere else in the word Blue boxes
Blood Wood Flood Good Even Heaven Given Have Clavicle Missys
sanctimonious sneers My Marys asleep by the murmuring stream- Flow
gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. --Robert Burns, Afton
Water
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I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And
then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And,
supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a
quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all
the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile
and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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Repetition of Vowel Sounds anywhere in the word (AEIOU-Y)
Especially the long vowels, oo and ow -r controlled vowels Green
underline Rubber baby buggy bumpers
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I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And
then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And,
supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a
quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all
the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill
And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile
and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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Repetition: The repetition of a word, phrase, or grammatical
structure in a poem Refrain: Repetition of one of more lines at
regular intervals in the poem We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk
late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June.
We Die soon. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
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First man, behold: the earth glitters with leaves; the sky
glistens with rain. - - N. Scott Momaday It must be able to hear
The luminance of dove and deer. It must be able to hide What it
seeks, like a bride. -- Jose Garcia Villa
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The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables of a poem
Scansion: the arrangement of the syllables in a pattern Iambic
pentameter Shakespeare, epics blank verse Divided into feet Unit of
syllables in a line Contains one stressed syllable 2-3 syllables
/foot The # of feet in a line completes the scansion description:
1- monometer 2- dimeter 3- trimeter 4- tetrameter 5- pentameter 6-
hexameter
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Iambic But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
Trochaic Go and catch a falling star Anapestic It was many and many
a year ago Dactylic Ive been to London to visit the queen Spondaic
Enjambment
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Silver bark of beech, and sallow Bark of yellow birch and
yellow Twig of willow. Stripe of green in moosewood maple, Colour
seen in leaf of apple, Bark of popple. Wood of popple pale as
moonbeam, Wood of oak for yoke and barn- beam, Wood of hornbeam.
Silver bark of beech, and hollow Stem of elder, tall and yellow
Twig of willow. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay When I was
one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and
guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But
keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to
me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out
of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty
And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis
true, 'tis true. ---AE Housman
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Stanza: the arrangement of lines in a group # of lines = stanza
type 1- verse 2- couplet 3- tercet 4- quatrain 5-cinquain/ quintet
6- sestet 7- septet 8- octave Often, types of poems are classified
by stanza structure Ex: sonnet = 14 lines English/Shakespearean: 3
quatrains and a couplet Italian/Petrarchan: An octave and a
sestet
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Words that are sounds Boom Crash Crunch Ding Knock Rip Ribbit
Oink Moo to freight cars in the air all the slow clank, clank
moving about the treetops the wha, what of the hoarse whistle pah,
pah pah, pah, pah, pah, pah piece and piece moving still trippingly
long after the engine has fought by and disappeared in silence to
the left
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Eskimos in Manitoba, Barracuda off Aruba, Cock an ear when
Roger Bubo Starts to solo on the tuba. Men of every station --
Pooh-Bah, Nabob, bozo, toff, and hobo -- Cry in unison, "Indubi-
Tably, there is simply nobo- Dy who oompahs on the tubo, Solo,
quite like Roger Bubo!" --John Updike
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Be able to explain the effect of the elements More on the way,
be ready!
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Imagery: images that the poet paints with words Five
senses
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I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And
stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a
pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides
of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl
between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then
chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as
a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.
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Simile: comparing two things using like or as Metaphor:
comparing two things without like or as Uses is or is implied
Extended simile/metaphor: comparison carried through multiple
lines/imageries
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Type of imagery Mentioning names, places, or elements of other
works to evoke recognition Einstein Noah In the belly of the beast
Scrooge Coldplays Viva la Vida
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Type of imagery Giving non-humans the qualities/characteristics
of humans the wind talked
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Type of imagery Deliberate over- exaggeration I could eat a
horse! She went to the beach all day and turned into a
lobster.
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Type of imagery When one things stands for another
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How to write your part 2 analysis Identify, explain, and
analyze the elements of imagery in your poem What effect? How does
it contribute? Put your stuff in the truck! Were moving on
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Subject: what the poem is about Lyric: poem of emotion, praise
of beauty, etc. Narrative: poem is telling a story JUSTIFY Speaker:
the narrator of the poem May or may not be the poet! Who could it
be? JUSTIFY Tone: the mood/ feeling of the speaker One word
disdain, elation, wonder, depression, etc. JUSTIFY Theme: the
overall lesson of the poem Statement phrased as if __________, then
________. JUSTIFY