1. What is it really?

2. Poetry is….
a type of literature in which words are chosen and arranged in a compact, precise way to create specific effects

3. TYPES of
poetry

4. Tells a story; it has plot and characters
#1 - Narrative
Tells a story; it has plot and characters

5. Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythym
#2 – Free Verse
Poetry without regular patterns of rhyme and rhythym
No set rules to follow

6. “Fog” by Carl Sandburg The fog comes on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

7. #3- Limerick …Is a short humorous poem. … Is composed of 5 lines.
…has aabba rhyme scheme

8. Limerick Example:
There was a young lady from Niger
who smiled as she rode on a tiger.
They returned from the ride,
with the lady inside,
and the smile on the face of the tiger!

9. # 4 - Lyric
Presents the personal thought and feelings of a single speaker.
Most poems, other than narratives are lyric poems.
Can be a variety of forms and cover many subjects

10. A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung or recited.
#5 - Ballad
A narrative poem that was originally meant to be sung or recited.

11. Form = the way it is laid out on the page
Form in Poetry
Form = the way it is laid out on the page
unusual line breaks
(even in the middle of words)
lines arranged to create a visual
pattern on the page

12. …Form Continued…
The length of each line helps create rhythm and meaning.
Lines may be grouped into STANZAS which express a single idea or theme.
Pattern of lines and stanzas often creates pattern of rhyming words.

13. “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:


Stanza 1
Stanza 2
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

15. A regular pattern of stressed (/) and unstressed (u) syllables
Meter
A regular pattern of stressed (/) and
unstressed (u) syllables

16. A writer’s unique way of communicating ideas
Style
A writer’s unique way of communicating ideas
It’s not what a poet says, but how a poet says it.
Communicated through poet’s words, form, and use of punctuation, capitalization, and spacing

17. Sound Devices
Are ways of using words for the sound qualities they create.
Help convey meaning and mood in a writers work

18. End Rhyme – Rhyming words come at the end of lines
Internal Rhyme – Rhyme that occurs within a line of poetry

19. Is it end or internal rhyme?
"Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

20. Is it end or internal rhyme?
“You’re the Top” by Cole Porter
You're the top! You're the Colosseum,
You're the top! You're the Louvre Museum,
You're a melody from a symphony by Strauss,
You're a Bendel bonnet, a Shakespeare sonnet,
You're Mickey Mouse.
You're the Nile, You're the Tow'r of Pisa,
You're the smile on the Mona Lisa.
I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop,
But if, Baby, I'm the bottom, You're the top!

21. #2 - Rhythm
Pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of poetry
Used to bring out musical quality, emphasize ideas, & create moods

22. Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words
#3 - Alliteration
Repetition of beginning consonant sounds in words

23. Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words
#4 - Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words
Examples:
“Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dark fox gone to ground.” - Pink Floyd
“Hear the mellow wedding bells.” - Edgar Allen Poe

24. Repeating words, sounds, or phrases to help emphasize meaning
#5 - Repetition
Repeating words, sounds, or phrases to help emphasize meaning
From “Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
by Samuel Coleridge
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.
The many men, so beautiful!
And they all dead did lie;
And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.
I looked upon the rotting sea,
And drew my eyes away;
I looked upon the rotting deck,
And there the dead men lay.

25. The use of words that sound like the noises they describe
#6 - Onomatopoeia
The use of words that sound like the noises they describe