Reading Poetry

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Reading Poetry
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Give yourself a chance to respond to poetry
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• The Red Wheelbarrow
• so much depends
• upon
• a red wheel
• barrow
• glazed with rain
• water
• beside the white
• chickens.
• William Carlos Williams

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Define

• Doggerel
• cliché
• sentimentality
• stock response
• paraphrase
• theme

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Sonnet 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the
ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and
height My soul can reach, when feeling out of
sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I
love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet
need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee
freely, as men strive for Right I love thee
purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee
with the passion put to use In my old griefs,
and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with
a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints!---I
love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all
my life!---and, if God choose, I shall but love
thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
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Define

• stanza
• couplet
• tercet
• quatrain
• sestet
• octave

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Fire and IceSome say the world will end in
fireSome say in ice.From what Ive tasted of
desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if
it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of
hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also
greatAnd would suffice.Robert Frost
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Types of poems

• lyric
• narrative
• epic
• dramatic monologue
• ballad
• literary ballad
• free verse
• sonnet
• type of sonnets

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• She Dont Bop
• A nervous young woman named Trudy
• Was at odds with a horn player, Rudy.
• His horn so annoyed her
• The neighbors would loiter
• To watch Rudy toot Trudy fruity.
• Keith Casto

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Types of poems

• epigram
• limerick
• elegy
• haiku
• ode
• picture poem
• parady
• free verse

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• Life is a brief candle.
• Macbeth, Shakespeare

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Figures of Speech

• allusion
• metaphor
• extended metaphor
• simile
• image
• pun
• personification
• apostrophe
• hyperbole

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Figures of Speech

• paradox
• oxymoron
• symbol
• allegory
• irony
• situational irony
• verbal irony
• dramatic irony
• satire

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Sounds

• diction
• poetic diction
• formal diction
• middle diction
• informal diction
• colloquially
• dialect
• jargon
• denotations
• connotations
• syntax

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• Excerpt from Blackberry Eating
• I love to go out in late September
• Among the fat, overripe, icy, black blackberries
• To eat blackberries for breakfast,
• The stalks very prickly, a penalty
• They earn for knowing the black art
• Of blackberry-making
• Galway Kinnell

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Sounds

• onomatopoeia
• alliteration
• assonance
• consonance
• rhyme
• eye rhyme
• end rhyme
• internal rhyme
• rhyme scheme

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Rhythm

• rhythm
• stress
• meter
• foot
• Iambic pentameter
• blank verse
• caesura
• end-stopped line
• run-on line (enjambment)

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Point of View

• speaker
• tone
• mood