Overview of Poetic Elements Part II

1
Overview of Poetic Elements Part II
2
5 More Poetic Elements

• Symbol
• Paradox
• Overstatement (hyperbole)

• Understatement
• Irony
• Verbal
• Dramatic
• Situation

3
Figurative Language Part IISymbol

• Symbol Something that means more than what it
  is.
• Image means what it isA shaggy brown dog was
  rubbing its back against a white picket fence.
• Metaphor means something other than what it
  isSome dirty dog stole my wallet.
• Symbol means what it is and something more,
  tooYou cant teach an old dog new tricks.

4

• The Road Not Taken (p. 734) is an example of
  the use of symbol.
• The literal meaning describes an experience by a
  traveler in a wood.
• The symbolic meaning describes any major choice
  in life and the feelings surrounding it.

5
Other Poems Which Use Symbol

• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• by Robert Frost (p. 793)
• To the Virgins to Make Much of Time by Robert
  Herrick (p. 742)
• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost (p. 746)
• The Writer by Richard Wilbur (p. 751)
• Because I could not stop for Death by Emily
  Dickinson (p. 752)

6
Paradox

• An apparent contradiction that is nevertheless
  somehow true

7
Examples of Paradox

• Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily
  Dickinson (p. 757)
• Batter my heart, three-personed God by John
  Donne (p. 766)
• Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
• A Considerable Speck by Robert Frost
• (p. 771)
• Also employs the use of irony

8
Overstatement/Understatement

• hyperbole exaggeration
• Understatement saying less than one means
• Examples of hyperbole
• The Road Not Taken (p. 734)
• I shall be telling this ages and ages hence
• Incident by Countee Cullen (p. 769)
• Thats all that I remember

9
More Examples of Overstatement/Understatement

• Fire and Ice by Robert Frost (p.746)
• for destruction/ice is also great/and will
  suffice
• Understatement
• Sorting Laundry by Elisavietta Ritchie (p. 767)
• Overstatement a mountain of unsorted wash
• The Sun Rising by John Donne (p. 759)
• Overstatement
• also employs extended use of apostrophe

10
Verbal Irony

• Saying the opposite of what one means
• To every woman a happy ending.
• ExampleBarbie Doll by Marge Piercy
• (p. 762)

11
Dramatic Irony

• Discrepancy between the speakers meaning and the
  poems meaning
• ExampleThe Chimney Sweeper by William Blake
• (p. 763)

12
Another Example of Dramatic Irony

• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (p. 775)
• Click on link for a full-screen version of the
  poem

http//barney.gonzaga.edu/jdavis6/poem.html
13
Irony of Situation

• Something unexpected happens
• Ozymandias (p. 764)
• Poem on next slide

14
(No Transcript)