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What is poetry? The art of a poet Literary work in verse of high quality great beauty intense emotions or deep insight

What is verse? What is meter? What is rhythm? Writing characterized by its meter. What is meter? The rhythm of poetry What is rhythm? Pattern of stressed & unstressed syllables

This is rhythm…. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night…. -- William Blake (1757-1827)

Let’s review… What is poetry? Poetry is verse – writing with a meter – and meter is the rhythm of poetry.

What is an image? An actual or mental picture There’s a smell of damp hay, Of horses, laziness, Summer sky and eternal life. Charles Simic Summer Morning

What is imagery? The wind blows and the leaves shiver in the sun. Vivid descriptions that produce mental pictures The wind blows and the leaves shiver in the sun.

Images begin with the senses A poet is a professor of the five senses. -Federico Garcia Lorca

Sense Star©

Sense Star Sight Sound Touch Taste Smell

Unexpected Comparisons Spark Interest A banjo has a shining shiver. Its twangs will glitter like the light on splashing water …. -- Robert Morgan in “The Grain of Sound” We associate banjos with our sense of hearing. The visual comparison surprises us.

Is this comparison as interesting? … a new piano with its mahogany gleam like pond ice at dawn …. -- B. H. Fairchild