Transcript Poetry - Writing with Williams

Poetry
Roses are red…violets are blue…
What is poetry?
Poetry is a type of literature in which words are chosen and
arranged in specific ways to create an effect.
Poetry Basics: Speaker
Just as a story has a narrator, a poem has a
speaker – the voice that talks to the reader. It is
important to remember that the poet and the
speaker are not necessarily the same.
Poetry Basics: Form
Form refers to the way that a poem is laid out
on a page.
Poetry is divided into lines and stanzas.
A line is a group of words on a single line in a
poem
A stanza is a group of lines in a poem
Sound Devices
The repetition of sounds
My Beard
by Shel Silverstein
My beard grows to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.
Internal rhyme- Words INSIDE the sentence rhyme.
End rhyme- the last word on each line rhymes.
Rhyming Patterns
• Rhyme Scheme:
The pattern of rhyming lines in a poem. It is usually referred to
by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme
Example:
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, (A)
While I have eyes to see; (B)
And having none, yet I will keep (A)
A heart to weep for thee.(B)
Rhythm
The beat created
by the sounds of the words in a poem.
Words that spell out sounds; words that
sound like what they mean.
Examples: growl, hiss, pop, boom, crack, ptthhhbbb.
The repetition of the initial letter or
sound in two or more words in a line.
“tongue-twisters”.
Example: How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a
dewdrop did drop dew?
ASSONANCE
• Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of
poetry.
Lake
Fate
Base
Fade
(All share the long “a” sound.)
CONSONANCE
• Similar to alliteration EXCEPT . . .
• The repeated consonant sounds can be
anywhere in the words
“silken, sad, uncertain, rustling . . “
Tone/Mood
Tone is the author’s attitude towards a subject
Mood is how the poem makes you feel