Transcript POETRY

POETRY
Poetry is an expression of feeling
and originality. Just as an artist
may choose water colors or
crayons to paint a picture, a
musician may choose the piano or
drums to create a song - you, the
poet, will choose a form and
method that will best convey your
message.
Writing poetry
is easy if you
have knowledge
of poetic forms
and devices.
Edgar Allan Poe
Sylvia Plath
Some
poems
follow “rules”
like a haiku,
concrete
or
the emotions
poem.
Poetry Terms
Simile - compares two
unlike things, using the
words like or as.
“His feet were as big as
boats.”
Metaphor - compares
two unlike things
directly, without the
use of like or as.
“Her hair is silk.”
Alliteration - the
repetition of consonant
sounds at the beginning
of words.
“Peter Piper picked a
peck of pickled
peppers.”
• Assonance- repetition
of vowel sounds within
words to create internal
rhyming
“And so, all the nighttide, I lie down by the
side
Of my darling, my
darling, my life and my
bride.” (Edgar Allen Poe)
• Internal Rhyme – rhyme
that occurs within a line
of verse, as in “the
grains beyond age, the
dark veins of her
mother” (Dylan Thomas)
Personification - assigning
human qualities to nonhuman things.
“The tropical storm slept
for two days.”
Onomatopoeia - words
that imitate sounds.
“Boom. Gurgle. Bang.
Plink.”
Hyperbole
an
exaggeration. “I nearly
died laughing.”
Symbolism - an object
that means what it is
and also something more.
Lions often symbolize
royalty.
Meter - how the beats
are put together to
form lines of poetry.
The combinations of
long and short
syllables give poetry a
rhythm, like music.
Rhythm - pattern of long
and short syllables in a
line. Some words receive
greater emphasis than
others. This is similar to
long and short notes in
music.
Lyrics - the actual
words poets write.
Mood - the overall
feeling the poem
creates.
INTERNAL
RHYME
rhyming within a line.
-
“I awoke to my fat cat
climbing up my back.”
RHYME - a pattern of
words that contain similar
sounds.
“I went to the fair with
the girl with the golden
hair.
STANZA - a unified
group of lines in
poetry. (paragraph)
VERSE - a line of
poetry.
POETIC FORMS
Acrostic Poetry - the first
letter of each line, when
read vertically, spells out a
word. The word is usually
the subject of the poem.
J ust as I wake up
A nd before I rise from bed
N ot yet look in the mirror
I f I had a choice instead
C ertain that fate prevails
E very day I am at peace.
HAIKU
an ancient Japanese form
with no rhyme. This type
of poetry has three lines
and it is usually about
nature.
The dying plant bends (5)
Dripping its life to the
ground
(7)
It falls like a tear
(5)
CONCRETE POEM - use the
words and their physical
formation to convey meaning.
KINDS OF POETRY
Lyric, Sonnet, Ode, Hymns,
Songs, Elegies, Narrative,
Ballad, Folk, Epic, Romance,
Free Verse, Limerick, Haiku,
Tanka, Concrete, Cinquain,
Blank
Verse,
Villanelle,
Acrostic, Epigram, Dramatic
and more
Now you are ready to write your
own poetry.
For your poetry book you will
write - a concrete poem, a list
poem, an emotion/action poem
(what if...), a first/last line
poem, a haiku, your own poem
(any form or style with at least
12 lines), and one poem analyzed.