1. Ms. Filipek

2.  “Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.”  Robert Frost  “painting with words”  DON’T (Over)THINK!!!  Meant to be enjoyed  Meant to be read aloud

3.  Association  Implications  Entertaining?  Drawbacks?  How would you refine?

4. I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

5.  Lyric vs. Narrative  Part 1: Sound and Structure  What is sound?  Alliteration  Assonance  Consonance  Onomatopoeia  Rhythm  Rhyme/rhyme scheme  Scansion/syllable stress  Structure (stanzas/free verse)  Repetition/Refrain  Enjambment  Forced/slant rhyme  Exact rhyme  Types of Poetry  Ode, sonnet, ballad, etc.  Part 2: Imagery  Sensory imagery  Metaphor  Simile  Allusion  Personification  Hyperbole  Symbolism  Part 3: Meaning  Subject  Speaker  Tone  Theme  Part 4: Performance  Memorization  Recitation techniques

6.  A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  Blends  ch  th  tr  thr  ld  nt  sp  Etc.

7.  Exact rhyme: sounds in words correspond  Forced/slant rhyme: corresponding sounds are approximate enough to not break rhythm  Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhyme in the poem Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten ‘em. --Hilaire Belloc

8.  Use ORANGE  First line is always labeled “A”  Everything that rhymes with “A” is also “A”  If the next line doesn’t rhyme, it’s “B”  New rhyme = new letter Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down. Hickory, Dickory, Dock. The Hippopotamus I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten ‘em.

9. I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

10.  The Repetition of sounds at the beginning of words  NOT letters  “2 line” rule: the pattern is lost…  RED CIRCLES– Circle the SOUND  Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. My Mary’s asleep by the murmuring stream- Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. --Robert Burns, “Afton Water”

11. I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

12.  Consonant sound repetition– anywhere else in the word  Blue boxes  Blood  Wood  Flood  Good  Even  Heaven  Given  Have  Clavicle Missy’s sanctimonious sneers My Mary’s asleep by the murmuring stream- Flow gently, sweet Afton, disturb not her dream. --Robert Burns, “Afton Water

13. I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

14.  Repetition of Vowel Sounds anywhere in the word (AEIOU-Y)  Especially the “long” vowels, “oo” and “ow”  -r controlled vowels  Green underline  Rubber baby buggy bumpers

15. I like to see it lap the miles I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

17.  Repetition:  The repetition of a word, phrase, or grammatical structure in a poem  Refrain:  Repetition of one of more lines at regular intervals in the poem  We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.  -- Gwendolyn Brooks

18. First man, behold: the earth glitters with leaves; the sky glistens with rain.  - - N. Scott Momaday It must be able to hear The luminance of dove and deer. It must be able to hide What it seeks, like a bride.  -- Jose Garcia Villa

19.  The repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables of a poem  Scansion: the arrangement of the syllables in a pattern  “Iambic pentameter”  Shakespeare, epics– blank verse  Divided into “feet”  Unit of syllables in a line  Contains one stressed syllable  2-3 syllables /foot  The # of feet in a line completes the scansion description:  1- monometer  2- dimeter  3- trimeter  4- tetrameter  5- pentameter  6- hexameter

20.  Iambic  But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?  Trochaic  Go and catch a falling star  Anapestic  It was many and many a year ago  Dactylic  I’ve been to London to visit the queen  Spondaic  Enjambment

21. Silver bark of beech, and sallow Bark of yellow birch and yellow Twig of willow. Stripe of green in moosewood maple, Colour seen in leaf of apple, Bark of popple. Wood of popple pale as moonbeam, Wood of oak for yoke and barn- beam, Wood of hornbeam. Silver bark of beech, and hollow Stem of elder, tall and yellow Twig of willow. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty, No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, 'The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. ---AE Housman

22.  Stanza: the arrangement of lines in a group  # of lines = stanza type  1- verse  2- couplet  3- tercet  4- quatrain  5-cinquain/ quintet  6- sestet  7- septet  8- octave  Often, types of poems are classified by stanza structure  Ex: sonnet = 14 lines  English/Shakespearean:  3 quatrains and a couplet  Italian/Petrarchan:  An octave and a sestet

23.  Words that are sounds  Boom  Crash  Crunch  Ding  Knock  Rip  Ribbit  Oink  Moo to freight cars in the air all the slow clank, clank moving about the treetops the wha, what of the hoarse whistle pah, pah pah, pah, pah, pah, pah piece and piece moving still trippingly long after the engine has fought by and disappeared in silence to the left

24. Eskimos in Manitoba, Barracuda off Aruba, Cock an ear when Roger Bubo Starts to solo on the tuba. Men of every station -- Pooh-Bah, Nabob, bozo, toff, and hobo -- Cry in unison, "Indubi- Tably, there is simply nobo- Dy who oompahs on the tubo, Solo, quite like Roger Bubo!" --John Updike

25.  Be able to explain the effect of the elements  More on the way, be ready!

26.  Imagery: “images” that the poet “paints” with words  Five senses

27. I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at tanks; And then, prodigious, step Around a pile of mountains, And, supercilious, peer In shanties by the sides of roads; And then a quarry pare To fit its sides, and crawl between, Complaining all the while In horrid, hooting stanza; Then chase itself down hill And neigh like Boanerges; Then, punctual as a star, Stop--docile and omnipotent-- At its own stable door.

28.  Simile: comparing two things using “like” or “as”  Metaphor: comparing two things without “like” or “as”  Uses “is” or is implied  Extended simile/metaphor: comparison carried through multiple lines/imageries

29.  Type of imagery  Mentioning names, places, or elements of other works to evoke recognition  Einstein  Noah  “In the belly of the beast”  Scrooge  Coldplay’s “Viva la Vida”

30.  Type of imagery  Giving non-humans the qualities/characteristics of humans  “the wind talked”

31.  Type of imagery  Deliberate over- exaggeration  “I could eat a horse!”  “She went to the beach all day and turned into a lobster.”

32.  Type of imagery  When one things stands for another

33.  How to write your part 2 analysis…  Identify, explain, and analyze the elements of imagery in your poem  What effect? How does it contribute?  Put your stuff in the truck! We’re moving on…

34.  Subject: what the poem is about  Lyric: poem of emotion, praise of beauty, etc.  Narrative: poem is telling a story  JUSTIFY  Speaker: the narrator of the poem  May or may not be the poet!  Who could it be? JUSTIFY  Tone: the mood/ feeling of the speaker  One word… disdain, elation, wonder, depression, etc. JUSTIFY  Theme: the overall lesson of the poem  Statement phrased as “if __________, then ________.”  JUSTIFY

35.  Memorization & Preparedness  Expression & Emotion  Volume & Clarity  Appearance, Stage Presence, Creativity, Props, etc.