Day 54 Foundations– Poetic form and Participle phrases

Objectives 1. Identify Participles and Analyze sentences for their effect. 2. Recognize characteristics of a variety of forms of poetry Homework: Print off Drama/Poetry terms from the wiki Close reading Poetry passage due Friday Vocabulary quiz Friday – will include participles and Participle phrases Bring Romeo and Juliet to class Monday!

warm up: Instructions: Rewrite the following sentences placing the participial phrases where they should b e placed. 1.Carl served me a malt dressed in his new uniform. 2. We found our cat walking home from school. 3. I was stung by a bee pruning my trees.

Computer Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get a computer Log into your google account. Find my wiki and download the Participles change the color worksheet. Share it with me ONLY when you are finished Complete the worksheet- ask questions when needed

Style of the Line- Form As a poet you want to think about how you will write your lines: Are you following a formula? If not do you want it have a “beat” or more natural flow? When will you make a new line? How will you divide your poem?

Some poems, and especially songs will have a specific rhythm. You can feel it (like the beat in music). Many rhyming poems have a rhythm or beat. “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe is an example of a poem that relies heavily on a specific rhythm and rhyme. It is also a narrative poem (one that tells a story). Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `'Tis some visitor,' I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more.‘ Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels named Lenore - Nameless here for evermore.

Poems without a specific rhythm or beat are called Free Verse. Invented in the 1800s by Walt Whitman Usually Non-rhyming Line breaks and line lengths are up to the poet. It is the most popular form used by contemporary poets today.

From “Song of Myself” from the book Leaves of Grass I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

The ideas in a poem are organized by line breaks and stanzas. Stanza- is like a poetry paragraph. The next slide will show you examples of stanzas.

“Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide. or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, Or walk inside the poems’ room And feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to water-ski across the surface of a poem waving at the author’s name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means. usc

Poetry -> Form Refers to a poem’s structure, or the way the words are arranged on the page. All words in a poem are arranged into line. The length of the lines, where they break, and how they are punctuated add to the meaning and rhythm. A group of lines in a poem is known as a stanza (it’s like a paragraph in fiction).

Form Arranged into two categories: 1.Traditional 2.Organic

Traditional Form Follows rules and a set structure. Popular due to predictable and regular rhythm and rhyme. Example: Sonnet, Haiku, Lyric

Examples of Traditional Poetry Epic: Long, narrative poem -> Odyssey Ode: a meditative or commemorative lyric poem Ballad: a narrative poem that is meant to be sung Sonnet: 14 line poem having a set pattern of rhythm and rhyme -> Shakespeare Haiku: a form of Japanese poetry with a set number of lines and syllables Limerick: a light/humorous poem with a particular rhyme scheme.

Traditional Form Example

Organic Form May not follow any set rules, pattern, rhythm, or rhyme. Unpredictable Often uses unconventional spelling or punctuation. The lack of rules, pattern, or rhythm often leads to a deeper meaning in the poem.

Organic Form Examples Free Verse: poetry that does not have regular meter. Concrete Poetry: conveys meaning visually through the arrangement of letters and words.

Organic Form Example

Form Questions to ask for form: 1. What form has been used by the author? 2. What is the structure of the poem? ◦How are the lines arranged? ◦Are there stanzas and punctuation in the poem? 3. How does the form affect your understanding of the poem?

Closure Write 3 things you have learned about poetry. Write 2 examples of poetic forms. Write 1 question you have concerning poetry.