1. What is poetry?, you say As you fix my eyes with yours of blue. What is poetry!.... You ask me that? Poetry... It is you! Gustavo Adolfo Becquer “Original combination of words, distinctive sound, and emotional impact…"

2.  From the Greek word for making or creating  Literature in metrical (verse) form  Literary art  Carefully chosen words showing a great depth of meaning  A short piece of imaginative writing

3.  “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” - William Wordsworth  “If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry.” – Emily Dickinson  “Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.” – Dylan Thomas

4.  the way a poem looks or its arrangement on the page.  Line – a group of words arranged in a row  Stanza – a grouped set of lines in a poem  concrete poetry – arrangement of words is critical to the poem river falling crashing thundering rushinginto quiet pools  Free verse – open form with no fixed pattern

5.  words that end with the same sound heart / start  Internal rhyme: when the rhyme occurs within a line  End rhyme: when the rhyme happens at the end of two lines

6.  slant rhyme: sounds that are similar but not exactly the same heart / star or heart / dark  blank verse: no rhyme heart / apple

7. A hippo sandwich is easy to make.A All you do is simply takeA One slice of bread,B One slice of cake,A Some mayonnaise,C One onion ring,D One hippopotamus,E One piece of string,D A dash of pepper--F That ought to do it.G And now comes the problem...H Biting into it!G

8.  Using symbols to represent ideas or qualities  When an object stands for something else  Example: I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

9.  repeating of sounds, words, phrases or whole lines of a poem (refrains)

10. Can You See the Pride In the Panther As he grows in splendor and grace Toppling obstacles placed in the way, of the progression of his race. Can You See the Pride In the Panther as she nurtures her young all alone The seed must grow regardless of the fact that it is planted in stone. Can You See the Pride In the Panthers as they unify as one. The flower blooms with brilliance, and outshines the rays of the sun.

11.  Repetition of beginning consonant sounds Nature's first green is gold Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. Robert Frost – Nothing gold can stay

12.  The repetition of vowel sounds Example: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain… - The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe

13. Words that imitate sounds Crash WHOOSH boom bang CLICK meow QUACK

14.  word pictures – when a reader can easily visualize what they are reading about  often appeals to the 5 senses

15. you know when you were digging ditches with your hands your hands blistered suns your lips camels with two humps did you ever imagine the parade would end in a bonfire of stupidity … …how could you laughing your tongue into your lungs a sea slug on the ocean floor unable to scream through fathoms and currents how could you your mind a dark cloud no place to hide from the rain of soldier’s bodies

16.  Words and phrases that help a reader picture ordinary things in new ways  Simile: comparison using “like” or “as” Life is like a box of chocolates. His eyes were as angry as a storm.  Metaphor: comparison that does NOT use “like” or “as” Life is a box of chocolates. His eyes were an angry storm.

17. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore– And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over– like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

18.  Extended metaphor: a sustained comparison developed throughout a piece of writing.  Personification: giving a non human object human qualities The rain danced on the roof and knocked on the windows. The frigid air crept in under the door and attacked me as I walked by.

19.  Hyperbole – an exaggeration used to create strong feelings or a strong impression; not meant to be taken literally  Example: In a house the size of a postage stamp lived a man as big as a barge. His mouth could drink the entire river You could say it was rather large For dinner he would eat a trillion beans And a silo full of grain, Washed it down with a tanker of milk As if he were a drain.

20. So I sneak out to the garden to see you We keep quiet cause we're dead if they know So close your eyes Escape this town for a little while Cause you were Romeo I was a scarlet letter And my daddy said stay away from Juliet But you were everything to me I was begging you please don't go and I said: Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess It's a love story baby just say yes

21.  The message or meaning of a poem  What does the poet want you to take from the poem?  Why did he/she write it?