Introduction to poetry First Videoconference

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Introduction to poetryFirst Videoconference
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DEFINING POETRY

• Senses
• Words
• Feelings
• Musicality
• Message
• Narration

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Playing with the senses

• What is an image?
• The use of images in Poetry
• Types of Images
• A. Concrete images
• Abstrtact images

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USE OF CONCRETE IMAGES

• Images of sight
• Images of Touch
• Images of smell
• Images of Taste
• Images of hearing

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USE OF ABSTRACT IMAGES

• Love
• Passion
• Death
• Anguish
• Sensibility
• Anger

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USE OF LITERARY DEVICES

• METAPHOR She is a rose
• Simile She is like a rose
• Mythology Zeus is coming
• Personification The wind is leaving
• Synaesthesia She is hearing with her mouth
• Synecdoche Give me your hand
• Metonymy Here comes the throne of England

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GREEK POETRY

• Sappho Hymn to Aprhrodite
• Homer The Birth of Aphrodite
• Alcman Natures Calm
• Anacreon The Grasshopper

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Anacreons The Grasshopper

• Happy insect! What can be
• In Happiness comprrard to thee?
• Fed with nourishment divine,
• The dewy mornings gentle wine!
• Nature waits upon thee still,
• And thy verdant cup does fill
• tis filled wherever thou dost tread

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The Grasshopper

• Nature selfs thy Ganymede.
• Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing
• Happier than the happiest king!
• All the plants belong to thee
• All that summer hours produce
• Fertile made with early juice

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Sapphos Hymn to Aphrodite

• Invocation
• Dialogue
• Aphrodite as a helper
• Madly in love
• Need to conquer her love

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ROMAN POETRY

• Catullus
• Horace

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Catullus Multas per gentes

• To his brother
• The funeral libation
• Fraternal tears
• The central irony
• Visiting after he has died

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Catulluss My Sweetest Lesbia

• A. Carpe diem Poem
• Let us live and love
• Loving before we die
• Fools do live and waste their little light
• Crown with love my ever-during night

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Catulluss poem 15- To you Aurelius

• Catullus mistrusts Aurelius
• His penis as a synecdoche
• Roman humour
• Roman sexuality

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MIDDLE AGE POETRY

• Trobadours
• Trouveres
• Minnesingers

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Trop est mes maris jalos

• My husband is very jealous
• He watches her all day
• He tries to control her with money
• She deceives him anyway

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In taberna quando sumus

• All human beings
• People made equal in the tavern
• Drinking as a social element

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Rosa da Rosas

• Virgin Mary as perfection
• Virgin Mary as protection
• Mary seen as a rose
• Marys attributes

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Activities

• Read Peer of the gods
• Look for
• Theme
• Concrete images
• Abstract images
• Literary devices.

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Activity 2

• Analyse the poem Love Asleep
• Analyze its theme
• Analyze its mythological implications
• Analyze its literary devices

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ACTIVITY 3

• Write an example of each of the following
  literary devices
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Synecdoche
• Mythology
• Synaesthesia
• Personification

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ACTIVITY 4

• Mention four characteristics of Greek Poetry.
• Mention four characteristics of Roman poetry
• Mention four charactristics of Medieval Poetry.

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Activity 5

• What is an image?
• How do you analyze images?
• Mention four concrete images and classify them.
• Mention four abstract images.