Transcript What is Poetry? - NHS-English-Grade-11

What is Poetry?
• It’s literature, like the
other stuff we study in
class.
• It’s art: the way a poem
looks is important.
• It’s about form and
content
• “A moment of truth”
Basics of Poetry
• Rhyme:
– Repitition of similar
sounds.
– True, Exact, or Masculine
rhyme: all the sounds are
repeated. (Gate/ rate,
love/dove)
– Slant, Imperfect, or
Feminine rhyme: words
sound similar, but are not
exact. (young/ song)
Basics of Poetry
• Rhyme scheme: A
pattern of rhymes
determined by the last
word in each line.
Usually we mark it
with lowercase letters.
Basics of poetry
• Meter is the pattern of
stressed and
unstressed syllables in
a poem. Each is
known as a metrical
foot.
– Iamb: unstressed,
stressed
– Trochee: Stressed,
unstressed
The Basics of Poetry
• Stanzas are groups of
lines, set off by a space,
that usually has a set
pattern and meter.
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2 lines: Couplet
3 lines: Tercet
4 lines: Quatrain
5 lines: Quintain
6 lines: Sextain
7 lines: Septet
8 lines: Octave
The Basics of Poetry
• Blank Verse:
– Also known as iambic
pentameter (5 iambs,
or 10 syllables per line)
– da-DA
– The sound of life, the
heartbeat, the sound of
love
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Ozymandias”
Classic poem
Follows typical format
Rhymes
Shakespearean Sonnet
• A sonnet is a rhymed
poem that follows a
specific pattern.
• 14 lines, iambic
pentameter.
Shakespearean Sonnet
• 3 Quatrains
• 1 Rhyming Couplet at
the end
• Rhyme Scheme: abab,
cdcd, efef, gg
• Usually about love and
romance, but not
always.
Punch Shakespeare!
• Blackadder (Women’s Hour Invasion 1988)
Irony
• When what one says
or does is the
OPPOSITE of what is
meant or generally
understood.
Paradox
• A contradiction
• Putting opposing ideas
together to create
unexpected insight/
meaning
Emily Dickinson
• Free Verse
• Contemporary of
Whalt Whitman
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– Intensity of human
emotion.
Robert Frost
• “Nothing Gold Can
Stay”
– Fleeting qualities of
nature, of LIFE
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The Death of The Ball Turret
Gunner
Randall Jarrel
Randall Jarell
• (1914-1965)
• Nashville, Tennessee
• Joined the Air Force in
1942
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"A ball turret was a plexiglass sphere
set into the belly of a B-17 or B-24, and
inhabited by two .50 caliber machine
guns and one man, a short small man.
When this gunner tracked with his
machine guns a fighter attacking his
bomber from below, he revolved with
the turret; hunched upsidedown in his
little sphere, he looked like the fetus in
the womb. The fighters which attacked
him were armed with cannon firing
explosive shells. The hose was a steam
hose."
• “Winning your Wings” (1942) propaganda short,
by the U.S. Airforce