1. CIS Poetry
Sullivan 2017

2. Figurative Language
What does that mean?
Types?

3. Types and Definitions
Metaphor-- comparison between two unlike things “You are my sunshine.”
Simile– uses like or as “He is like an energetic monkey.”
Extended– lasts for several lines or entire poem
Synecdoche-- part represents whole “ranch hand”
Metonymy-- word substituted with similar word “life spilled from him”
Hyperbole– exaggeration
Personification– giving human qualities to inhuman object

4. Analysis You’re Vague as fog and looked for like mail. By Sylvia Plath
Farther off than Australia.
Bent-backed Atlas, our traveled prawn.   
Clownlike, happiest on your hands,   
Snug as a bud and at home   
Feet to the stars, and moon-skulled,   
Like a sprat in a pickle jug.   
Gilled like a fish. A common-sense   
A creel of eels, all ripples.   
Thumbs-down on the dodo’s mode.   
Jumpy as a Mexican bean.   
Wrapped up in yourself like a spool,   
Right, like a well-done sum.   
Trawling your dark as owls do.   
A clean slate, with your own face on.
Mute as a turnip from the Fourth   
Taken from
Of July to All Fools’ Day,
O high-riser, my little loaf.

5. Analysis Child on Top of a Greenhouse
The wind billowing out the seat of my britches, My feet crackling splinters of glass and dried putty, The half-grown chrysanthemums staring up like accusers, Up through the streaked glass, flashing with sunlight, A few white clouds all rushing eastward, A line of elms plunging and tossing like horses, And everyone, everyone pointing up and shouting!
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6. Assignment #1 Write a poem, at least 9 lines, called “You’re”
Use figurative language to write about your partner in the class
Highlight your uses of figurative language and label them!
Can be typed or handwritten– due at the start of class on Tuesday

7. Sound Devices
What are they?
Why use them?

8. Types and Definitions Repetition– any repeating element
Alliteration– repetition of initial consonant sound (“The wild waves whist”)
Assonance– repetition of vowel sound (burden, curtain)
Consonance– repetition of consonant sound (wild, loud)
Rhyme– repetition of accented vowel sound and all succeeding sounds
Masculine– one syllable rhymes (support, retort)
Feminine– two or more syllables rhyme (turtle, fertile)
Approximate/ Half Rhyme– words with sound similarity (yellow, willow)
Internal rhyme– words rhyme within a line
End rhyme– words at the ends of lines rhyme
Onomatopoeia– word represents the sound it identifies (bark, boom)
Phonetic intensives– sound somewhat connects to word’s meaning (flicker, sputter, sparkle)

9. Analysis
The Guitarist Tunes Up With what attentive courtesy he bent a Over his instrument; a Not as a lordly conqueror who could b Command both wire and wood, b But as a man with a loved woman might, c Inquiring with delight c What slight essential things she had to say d Before they started, he and she, to play. d Frances Darwin Cornfordhe Taken from

10. Looking-Glass River
Comment on Looking-Glass River and see more Robert Louis Stevenson poems below.
Analysis
Looking-Glass River Robert Louis Stevenson Smooth it glides upon its travel, Here a wimple, there a gleam-- O the clean gravel! O the smooth stream! Sailing blossoms, silver fishes, Pave pools as clear as air-- How a child wishes To live down there! We can see our colored faces Floating on the shaken pool Down in cool places, Dim and very cool; Till a wind or water wrinkle, Dipping marten, plumping trout, Spreads in a twinkle And blots all out. See the rings pursue each other; All below grows black as night, Just as if mother Had blown out the light! Patience, children, just a minute-- See the spreading circles die; The stream and all in it Will clear by-and-by. Taken from glass_river

11. Assignment #2
Write a poem, at least 9 lines; title it with one of your favorite activities
Use sound devices to describe your activity– use at least two different types!
Highlight your uses of sound devices and label them!
Can be typed or handwritten– due at the start of class on Wednesday

12. Structure
Why does it matter?
What type of structures exist in poetry?

13. Types and Definitions Rhythm– Recurring sounds Form
Meter– Accents occur at regular intervals
Open form- loosely structured
Foot– a metrical unit of stressed and unstressed syllables
Closed form-tightly structured
Free verse- no meter or rhyme scheme
Stanza– Group of lines in a poem
Iambic Pentameter– 10 syllables per line w/ unstressed-stressed feet
Couplet-2 line stanza
Tercet- 3 line stanza
Blank verse– unrhymed iambic pentameter
Quatrain- 4 line stanza
Cinquain- 5 line stanza
Sestet- 6 line stanza
Septet- 7 line stanza
Octave- 8 line stanza

14. Analysis
Those Winter Sundays BY ROBERT HAYDEN Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices? Taken from

15. Analysis
It sifts from Leaden Sieves - (291) BY EMILY DICKINSON Taken from poetryfoundation.org It sifts from Leaden Sieves - It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool The Wrinkles of the Road - It makes an even Face Of Mountain, and of Plain - Unbroken Forehead from the East Unto the East again - It reaches to the Fence - It wraps it Rail by Rail Till it is lost in Fleeces - It deals Celestial Vail To Stump, and Stack - and Stem - A Summer’s empty Room - Acres of Joints, where Harvests were, Recordless, but for them - It Ruffles Wrists of Posts As Ankles of a Queen - Then stills it’s Artisans - like Ghosts - Denying they have been -

16. Assignment #2-- Structure
Write a poem, at least 9 lines; choose a season on which to focus
Use a meter in your poem!
Write the number of syllables next to each line
Can be typed or handwritten– due at the start of class on Thursday