Poetry

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Poetry

• TAKE NOTES!

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Figurative Language

• Word or phrase that is not to be understood on a
  literal level
• Ex Its raining cats and dogs.

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Examples of Figurative Language

• Simile comparison using like or as
• Metaphor direct comparison between two unlike
  things
• Personification giving animals, objects, or
  natural forces human characteristics
• Hyperbole an extreme exaggeration
• Onomatopoeia words that imitate the sound or
  action they describe

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Poetry terms cont.

• Alliteration repetition of a consonant sound at
  the beginning of 2 or more words
• Idiom phrases common to a language. Often
  confusing because the meaning of the phrase is
  different from the literal meaning of the words
  themselves.
• Pun a play on words often has two meanings
• Allusion reference to a well-known person,
  place, thing, or event in history, literature,
  art, etc.

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Imagery

• Language that appeals to the senses
• Ex The crystal blue water cascaded down the
  mountain making tiny waterfalls glisten in the
  warm sunlight.

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Mood Tone

• The feeling a piece of literature evokes in the
  reader

• The authors attitude toward his subject

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Symbol Theme

• An object in literature that represents something
  else

• the authors message to the reader or the subject
  matter the author focuses on in his work

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Stanza

• A fixed number of lines that form a unit in a
  poem
• Couplet - two line stanza
• Triplet - three line
• Quatrain - four line
• Quintet - five line
• Sestet - six line
• Septet - seven line
• Octave - eight line

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Types of Poetry

• Narrative Poetry poem that tells a story
• Lyric Poetry expresses speakers thoughts and
  emotions
• Epic Poetry long narratives that feature heroic
  deeds
• Sonnets 14 line poem with a fixed rhyme scheme
• Ballads have a story similar to folk tales and
  often had a repeated refrain
• Ode poem that honors a person, place, or thing

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Narrative Poetry Casey at the Bat

• The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville
  nine that dayThe score stood four to two, with
  but one inning more to play,And then when Cooney
  died at first, and Barrows did the same,A
  pall-like silence fell upon the patrons of the
  game.A straggling few got up to go in deep
  despair. The restClung to that hope which
  springs eternal in the human breastThey
  thought, "If only Casey could but get a whack at
  that We'd put up even money now, with Casey at
  the bat."But Flynn preceded Casey, as did also
  Jimmy Blake,And the former was a hoodoo, while
  the latter was a cakeSo upon that stricken
  multitude grim melancholy satFor there seemed
  but little chance of Casey getting to the bat.

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Lyric Poetry Dust of Snow

• The way a crow
• Shook down on me
• The dust of snow
• From a hemlock tree
• Has given my heart
• A change of mood
• And saved some part
• Of a day I had rued.

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Epic Poetry The Iliad

• Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of
  Peleus, that
• brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a
  brave soul did
• it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero
  did it yield a
• prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the
  counsels of Jove
• fulfilled from the day on which the son of
  Atreus, king of men,
• and great Achilles, first fell out with one
  another.

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Shakespearean Sonnet

• Consists of 3 quatrains and a concluding couplet

• Abab
• Cdcd
• Efef
• Gg

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Sonnet 018

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art
  more lovely and more temperateRough winds do
  shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease
  hath all too short a dateSometime too hot the
  eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold
  complexion dimm'dAnd every fair from fair
  sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing
  course untrimm'dBut thy eternal summer shall
  not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou
  owestNor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his
  shade,When in eternal lines to time thou
  growestSo long as men can breathe or eyes can
  see,So long lives this and this gives life to
  thee.

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Ballad Greensleeves

• Alas, my love, you do me wrong,To cast me off
  discourteously.For I have loved you well and
  long,Delighting in your company.ChorusGreensl
  eeves was all my joyGreensleeves was my
  delight,Greensleeves was my heart of gold,And
  who but my lady greensleeves.Your vows you've
  broken, like my heart,Oh, why did you so
  enrapture me?Now I remain in a world apartBut
  my heart remains in captivity.chorusI have
  been ready at your hand,To grant whatever you
  would crave,I have both wagered life and
  land,Your love and good-will for to
  have.chorusIf you intend thus to disdain,It
  does the more enrapture me,And even so, I still
  remainA lover in captivity.

• chorusMy men were clothed all in
  green,And they did ever wait on theeAll this
  was gallant to be seen,And yet thou wouldst not
  love me.chorusThou couldst desire no earthly
  thing,but still thou hadst it readily.Thy music
  still to play and singAnd yet thou wouldst not
  love me.chorusWell, I will pray to God on
  high,that thou my constancy mayst see,And that
  yet once before I die,Thou wilt vouchsafe to
  love me.chorusAh, Greensleeves, now farewell,
  adieu,To God I pray to prosper thee,For I am
  still thy lover true,Come once again and love
  me.

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OdeOde to the Dinosaurs

• I sing of those who failed to make the ArkWho
  would have made that cockleshell capsize.Despite
  their comeback in Jurassic ParkStill abject
  failures in most peoples eyes.Absurd
  monstrosities vast bulk, long necks,Thick
  skins, huge jaws, and brains the size of peas
  No wonder that they didnt make the
  grade!Tyrannosaurus Rex?Rex, meaning king? It
  ruled the world? Oh please! Mankinds
  achievements put theirs in the shade!

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Rhyme

• Repetition of identical or similar sounds in two
  or more different words

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Rhyme

• Internal rhyme rhyme that occurs within a line
  instead of the end of a line
• Slant rhyme words that are near in rhyme but not
  exact
• Blank verse unrhymed lines of iambic pentameter
• Free verse poetry without any rhythm or rhyme
  pattern

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Rhyme scheme

• The pattern of rhymed lines
• The cat went to the store, (a)
• And was seen nevermore. (a)
• The dog was quite glad, (b)
• For the cat made him very mad. (b)

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Rhyme scheme

• I had a cat, (A)
• The boy had a dog. (B)
• The cat ate the rat, (A)
• And the dog chewed a log. (B)

Roses are red (A) Violets are blue (B) Sugar is
sweet, (C) And so are you. (B)