Poetry Terms to Love and Learn

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Poetry Terms to Love and

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afflatusa Latin term for poeticinspiration.


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alliterationthe repetition of initial

consonant sounds in neighboringwords.


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In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.


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assonancethe repetition of

identical or similar vowel sounds in

the stressed syllables of neighboringwords without the repetition of

consonants.


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THE RED WHEELBARROW

so much dependsupon

a red wheelbarrow

glazed with rain

water

beside the white

chickens


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LIFE IS MOTION

In Oklahoma,Bonnie and Josie,

Dressed in calico,

Danced around a stump.

They cried,

Ohoyaho,Ohoo . . .

Celebrating the marriage

Of flesh and air.


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blank verseunrhymed lines ofiambic pentameter.


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We live in an old chaos of the sun,

Or old dependency of day and night,Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,

Of that wide water, inescapable.

Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning


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caesuraa pause, metrical or

rhetorical, in a line of poetry; the pausemay or may not be indicated

typographically.


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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

Am an attendant lord, one that will do

To swell a progress, start a scene or two,

Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,

Deferential, glad to be of use,

Politic, cautious, and meticulous;

Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;

At times, indeed, almost ridiculous

Almost, at times, the Fool.

I grow old . . . I grow old . . .

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock


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cantoa division of a long poem; a

subdivision of an epic or other narrativepoem, equivalent to a chapter in a prose

work.


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consonancethe repetition of identical

or similar consonants in neighboring

words whose vowel sounds are different

(coming home, hotfoot).


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the path sick sorrow took


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coupleta pair of rhyming verse lines,

usually of the same length.


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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag

Its so elegantSo intelligent

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land


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For I have known them all already, known them all

Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock


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Im still Jenny from the block

Used to have a little, now I have a lot

J-Lo, Jenny From the Block


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end-stoppedbrought to a pause at

which the end of a verse line coincides

with the completion of a sentence or

clause; the opposite ofenjambment.


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I celebrate myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good

belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear

of summer grass.

Walt Whitman, Song of Myself


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enjambmentthe running over of the

sense and grammatical structure fromone verse line to the next without a

punctuated pause.


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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD

April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing

Memory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.

Winter kept us warm, covering

Earth in forgetful snow, feeding

A little life with dried tubers.


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But now the stark dignity of

entranceStill, the profound changehas come upon them: rooted, they

grip down and begin to awaken


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foota unit of meter which denotes the

combination of stressed and unstressedsyllables; an iambis a type of foot.


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free versea type of poetry that does

not conform to any regular meter orrhyme scheme.


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iamba metrical unit (foot) of verse,

having one unstressed syllable followed

by one stressed syllable.

(complacencies)


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imagerya critical term used to

describe the words or phrases which

bring forth a certain picture or image in

the mind of the reader.

BETWEEN WALLS


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BETWEEN WALLS

the black wings

of the

hospital where

nothing

will grow lie

cinders

in which shinethe broken

pieces of a green

bottle


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lyricany fairly short poem expressing

the personal mood, feeling, ormeditation of a single speaker.


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meterthe repetition of stressed and

unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.


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pentameterfive feet.


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rhythmthe ordered or free

occurrences of sound in poetry; regularrhythm which recurs is called meter.


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stanzaone of the divisions of a poem,

composed of two or more lines usually

characterized by a common pattern of

meter, rhyme, and number of lines.


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versea metric line of poetry; it is

named according to the kind and

number of feet composing it (iambicpentameter, iambic hexameter, trochaic

tetrameter).


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Definitions Swiped From:

Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary ofLiterary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University

Press, 1996.

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