Poetry Review

Terms to Know• Limerick• Lyric poem• Metaphor• Meter• Narrative poem• Ode• Onomatopoeia• Personification• Alliteration• Ballad• Couplet• Elegy• end rhyme• Epic

• Poetry• Refrain• Rhyme scheme• Simile• Sonnet• Stanza• Theme• Tone• visual rhyme• extended metaphor• figure of speech• free verse• iambic pentameter

Things You’ll Do

• Match terms to definitions

• Read new poems– Answer questions about the poems– Identify the poem according to its type– Identify rhyme scheme– Identify metaphor, simile, personification

What can you tell me about the following poem?

• Any metaphors? What do they stand for?

• Could it be an extended metaphor?

• What kind of poem is it?

• What is the rhyme scheme?

• Any alliteration? Onomatopoeia?

“I Like to See It Lap the Miles”Emily Dickinson

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, peerIn shanties by the sides of roads;And then a quarry pare

To fit its sides, and crawl between,Complaining all the whileIn 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.

What can you tell me about the following poem?

• Any metaphors? What do they stand for?

• Could it be an extended metaphor?

• What kind of poem is it?

• What is the rhyme scheme?

• Any alliteration? Onomatopoeia?

Ode to My SocksPablo Neruda

Maru Mori brought me a pair of socks knitted with her own shepherd's hands, two socks soft as rabbits. I slipped my feet into them as if into jewel cases woven with threads of dusk and sheep's wool.Audacious socks, my feet became two woolen fish two long gangly sharks of lapis blue shot with a golden thread, two mammoth blackbirds, two cannons, thus honored were my feet honored by these celestial socks. They were so beautiful that for the first time my feet seemed unacceptable to me, two tired old fire fighters not worthy of the woven fire, of those luminous socks.

What can you tell me about the following poem?

• Any metaphors? What do they stand for?

• Could it be an extended metaphor?

• What kind of poem is it?

• What is the rhyme scheme?

• Any alliteration? Onomatopoeia?

620. Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways?I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of Being and ideal Grace.I love thee to the level of everyday’sMost quiet need, by sun and candle-light.I love the freely, as men strive for Right;I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.I love thee with the passion put to useIn my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to loseWith my lost saints,--I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and if God choose,I shall but love thee better after death.