Oh, innocent victims of Cupid.

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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight
and ends in wisdom. The figure is the same as for
love. Robert Frost

• Oh, innocent victims of Cupid.
• Remember this terse little verse.
• To let a fool kiss you is stupid
• To let a kiss fool you is worse.
• E.Y. Yip Harburg

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• Note We use the word speaker to indicate the
  person communicating the poem to us, just as a
  narrator tells a story. Dont assume the
  speaker is actually the poet. Poems are rarely
  straight autobiography.

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Poetic terms

• Alliteration (Little Lyle lies longingly on the
  lawn)
• Assonance (Opacity opens up rooms)
• Rhyme
• End (at ends of two or more lines)
• Internal (within a line)
• Masculine (unaware/pious care)
• Feminine (September/November)

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Virtuoso rhyme

• When a persons personality is personable
• He hadnt ought to sit like a lump.
• Its harder than a matador coercin a bull
• To try to get you off of your rump
• Stephen Sondheim, You Could Drive a Person Crazy

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Another virtuoso rhyme

• In the depths of her interior
• Were fears she was inferior.
• And something even eerier.
• But no one dared to query her superior exterior.
• Stephen Sondheim, Ah, But Underneath!

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Images

• Image a word or group of words that appeals to
  one or more of the readers senses.
• Something you can see
• Something you can hear
• Something you can smell
• Something you can taste
• Something you can touch
• In other words, something that appeals to one or
  more of your senses

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Figurative Language

• Simile Comparison of two apparently unlike
  things, using as or like.
• Ex. O, my luves like a red, red rose (Burns,
  1796)
• Metaphor Comparison of two apparently unlike
  things, not using as or like.
• Ex. My house is a disaster area.
• An extended metaphor functions throughout a poem.
  Ex the wall in Frosts Mending Wall.
• Figurative language offers imaginative leap to
  image or idea.

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Put death on the market

• A. Simile I hate this game like death.
• B. Metaphor Taking sides on this issue is death
  for any politician.
• C. Personification Because I could not stop for
  Death, he kindly stopped for me.
• D. Metonymy poetic device in which something
  stands for something else In Millays line,
  shes most likely saying that we put deadly
  weapons on the market. Thus, death serves as a
  metonymy.