POETRY

WHAT IS POETRY..???

Poetry is a form o literature that expresses ideas, feelings or tells a story in a specific form.

An imaginative response to an experience reflecting a keen awareness of language.

Figurative

Literal

Language in poetry

the person who speaks in or narrates a poem.

But the speaker and writer NOT necessarily the same person.

Speaker

A statement about life that a particular work is trying to get across to the reader.

Theme=Main idea

Theme

ELEMENTS OF POETRY

PROSODY

Prosody is the study of the meter, rhythm and intonation of a poem.

Rhythm and meter are different, although closely related.

Meter and rhythm describe patterned repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.

The meter and rhythm of a poem creates a beat

Meter and Rhythm

Verse: Metric line of poetry names according to the kind and number of feet composing it.

Refrain: repetition of line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals, especially at the end of a stanza(CHORUS)

Verse and Refrain

A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains.

When you see a space between lines in a poem, that means a new stanza is beginning.

STANZA

Similarity or likeness of sound existing between two words.

T op= Top

St op=Stop

Rhyme

Repetition of initial consonant sound in words

she sells sea shell down by the seashore

Alliteration

Repetition of vowel sounds without the repetition of consonant sounds.

How now brown cow

Assonance

Comparison od two unlike things using the words LIKE or AS .

He acts like an animal when he eats!

Simile

Giving human qualities to non-human objects.

the statue stared at us the flag waved at us the sun smiled down on the earth.

Personification

The use of a word whose sound suggest its meaning.

Onomatopoeia

The use of a exaggeration for a heightened effect.

Hyperbole

Comparing two things by saying one thing actually is another thing.

Metaphor

Poems are written in stanzas.

Shape

Mood

The feeling that it has.

Narrative Poetry Epic Poetry Dramatic Poetry Lyric Poetry Prose poetry Speculative Poetry

Genres of poetry

Types of poetry

Haiku:is a Japanese form of poetry which is composed of three non rhyming lines.

Limerick: Often, limericks tell a short, humorous story.

Sonnet: Contains 14 lines, typically with two rhyming stanzas known as a rhyming couplet at the end.

Famous Publications

Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare and Romeo and Juliet.

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo Neruda and Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair