1. Journal – Poetry What is your favorite kind of poetry and why? What is your favorite poem and why? Make a decision, no sitting on the fence! Remember, MUSIC is POETRY

2. Poetry Forms

3. Narrative - tells a story Lyric - gives a personal impression or feeling Poetry falls into two major categories:

4. Narrative Poetry

5. The Ballad--Narrative One of earliest poetry forms, originally set to music Simple and contains dialogue, repetition, minor characterization Written in quatrains Basic rhyme scheme (A, B, C, B) Uses Refrain which are repeated lines (adds to songlike quality) Meter: two lines of iambic tetrameter alternating with two lines of iambic trimeter

6. The Ballad—Subject Matter Life of a folk hero (i.e. Robin Hood) Retelling of historical event The supernatural Disasters Good and evil Love and loss

7. The Dramatic Monologue- Narrative Popular during Victorian Era An episode in speaker’s life revealed through a conversation Speech reveals feelings, actions, and/or motives Directed towards a silent audience Speaker’s words usually in response to some critical situation Tries to communicate the whole story by relating part of it

8. Lyric Poems

9. The Lyric—Obviously Lyric In ancient Greece, sung, accompanied by a lyre Highly personal and emotional Can be either simple or elevated (ode, elegy, sonnets) Subjective, melodious, reflective (tone) Relatively short

10. The Sonnet—Lyric Most popular “fixed” form of poetry Usually iambic pentameter Always fourteen lines Three types: Petrarchan (Italian), Spenserian, and Shakespearean (English/Elizabethan)

11. The Petrarchan Sonnet A B AThis forms an octave. A B A (At this point is the VOLTA, or shift/turn.)

12. The Petrarchan Sonnet CThis forms a sestet DTypes of VOLTAS E--general to specific C--comparison & contrast D--question & answer E--cause & effect --before & after

13. The Spenserian Sonnet A B A B This forms a quatrain. B C B C This forms a quatrain.

14. The Spenserian Sonnet C D C DThis forms a quatrain. EThis forms a couplet (a E rhyming couplet to be exact).

15. The Shakespearean Sonnet A B A B This forms a quatrain. C D C D This forms a quatrain.

16. The Shakespearean Sonnet E F E FThis forms a quatrain. (These 3 quatrains establish a theme or a problem.) GThis forms a couplet G (a rhyming couplet). The rhyming couplet provides the resolution.