1. Poetry Day 23 AP Literature: Freire Charter School Ms. Stacey
Wednesday
April 22, 2015
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2. 4.22.15 Class Agenda & Updates What is due today? Ch 14 Chart
What are our objectives today?
Ch 14: Pattern in Poetry Notes + Examples
Who has something to make up?
Najay, Zahkeyah
Who’s working in the WC today?
Kevin, Semijah

3. The imposition of an “external” pattern or shape
Ch 14: Pattern in Poetry
Poetry can be evaluated by its:
Unity
Coherence
Proper placing of emphasis
Form
The STRUCTURE: the “internal” ordering of the poem’s “materials” (ideas, images, thoughts)
The imposition of an “external” pattern or shape

4. Ch 14: Pattern in Poetry There are three (3) kinds of poetic form:
Continuous
Stanzaic
Fixed

5. The Widow’s Lament in Springtime
BY WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
Sorrow is my own yard
where the new grass
flames as it has flamed
often before, but not
with the cold fire
that closes round me this year.
Thirty-five years
I lived with my husband.
The plum tree is white today
with masses of flowers.
Masses of flowers
load the cherry branches
and color some bushes
yellow and some red,
but the grief in my heart
is stronger than they,
for though they were my joy
formerly, today I notice them
and turn away forgetting.
Today my son told me
that in the meadows,
at the edge of the heavy woods
in the distance, he saw
trees of white flowers.
I feel that I would like
to go there
and fall into those flowers
and sink into the marsh near them.
Form 1: Continuous
What are the “external” or “shape” characteristics of this poem?
Lines follow each other without formal grouping
Breaks are dictated by the poem's meaning—paragraphs are in prose.

6. The Aim was Song
BY ROBERT FROST
Before man to blow to right The wind once blew itself untaught, And did its loudest day and night In any rough place where it caught.  Man came to tell it what was wrong: It hadn't found the place to blow; It blew too hard - the aim was song. And listen - how it ought to go!  He took a little in his mouth, And held it long enough for north To be converted into south, And then by measure blew it forth.  By measure. It was word and note, The wind the wind had meant to be - A little through the lips and throat. The aim was song - the wind could see. 
Form 2: Stanzaic A B C D
E F E F G H
What are the “external” or “shape” characteristics of this poem?
Poem is made up of distinct groupings of lines called stanzas
Stanzas (usually!) have same # of lines. Same metrical pattern, and same rhyme scheme

7. STANZAIC PATTERNS
Terza Rima: interlocking iambic tercets (aba, bcb, cdc) Ballad Meter: alternating lines of iambic tetrameter + iambic trimeter Rime Royale: seven-line iambic pentameter stanza rhyming ababbcc. Spenserian Stanza: nine-line stanzas: eight in iambic pentameter followed by a single 'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.

8. Form 3: FIXED Villanelles Sestinas Sonnets
Pattern applies to the WHOLE POEM.
The primary traditional types of fixed form poetry include:
Villanelles Sestinas
Sonnets

9. SONNETS Italian (Petrarchan) = 14 lines first 8 lines (octave)
second 6 lines (sestet)
Rhyme scheme = abba abba; cdc cdc (or cde cde)
Shift from octave to sestet = shift in idea

10. SONNETS English (Shakespearean) = 14 lines 3 “quatrains” (4-lines)
Followed by a rhyming “couplet” (2 lines)
Rhyme scheme = abab cdcd efef gg
Shift from quatrains to couple = shift in idea

11. VILLANELLE Has a complex pattern repetition and rhyme:
19-lines divided into 3-line stanzas (tercets) and a final 4-line quatrain
Uses only 2 rhyme sounds
First and third lines repeat throughout the poem in fixed intervals

12. HOMEWORK Review Perrine Ch 10- 14. Know ALL terms!
Continue work on OEQ Presentation (in-class Fri 4/24; must be ed to me by 8am Friday!)