Journal 1014 Do you consider music to be

Journal 10/14 Do you consider music to be poetry? Why or why not? Explain in at least 3 sentences.

POETRY

POETRY Ø A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)

POINT OF VIEW IN POETRY POET 4 The poet is the author of the poem. SPEAKER 4 The speaker of the poem is the “narrator” of the poem.

POETRY FORM 4 FORM - the appearance of the words on the page 4 LINE - a group of words together on one line of the poem 4 STANZA - a group of lines arranged together A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.

KINDS OF STANZAS Couplet Triplet (Tercet) Quatrain Quintet Sestet (Sextet) Septet Octave = = = = a two line stanza a three line stanza a four line stanza a five line stanza a six line stanza a seven line stanza an eight line stanza

SOUND EFFECTS

RHYTHM 4 The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem 4 Rhythm can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.

METER Ø A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

RHYME 4 Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds. 4 (A word always rhymes with itself. ) LAMP STAMP á Share the short “a” vowel sound á Share the combined “mp” consonant sound

END RHYME 4 A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line Hector the Collector Collected bits of string. Collected dolls with broken heads And rusty bells that would not ring.

INTERNAL RHYME 4 A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. From “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

NEAR RHYME 4 a. k. a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme 4 The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH ROSE LOSE á Different vowel sounds (long “o” and “oo” sound) á Share the same consonant sound

RHYME SCHEME 4 A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always). 4 Use the letters of the alphabet to represent sounds to be able to visually “see” the pattern. (See next slide for an example. )

SAMPLE RHYME SCHEME The Germ by Ogden Nash A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race. His childish pride he often pleases By giving people strange diseases. Do you, my poppet, feel infirm? You probably contain a germ. a a b b c c a a

ONOMATOPOEIA 4 Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ 4 OR sounds that imitate another sound “The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain. . . ”

ALLITERATION 4 Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?

CONSONANCE 4 Similar to alliteration EXCEPT. . . 4 The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words “silken, sad, uncertain, rustling. . “

ASSONANCE 4 Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry. (Often creates near rhyme. ) Lake Fate Base Fade (All share the long “a” sound. )

ASSONANCE cont. Examples of ASSONANCE: “Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing. ” - John Masefield “Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep. ” - William Shakespeare

REFRAIN 4 A sound, word, phrase or line repeated regularly in a poem. “Quoth the raven, ‘Nevermore. ’”

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE

SIMILE 4 A comparison of two things using “like, as than, ” or “resembles. ” 4 “She is as beautiful as a sunrise. ”

METAPHOR 4 A direct comparison of two unlike things 4 “All the world’s a stage, and we are merely players. ” - William Shakespeare

Hyperbole 4 Exaggeration often used for emphasis.

Understatement 4 Understatement - basically the opposite of hyperbole. Often it is ironic. 4 Ex. Calling a slow moving person “Speedy”

Idiom 4 An expression where the literal meaning of the words is not the meaning of the expression. It means something other than what it actually says. 4 Ex. It’s raining cats and dogs.

PERSONIFICATION 4 An animal given humanlike qualities or an object given life-like qualities. from “Ninki” by Shirley Jackson “Ninki was by this time irritated beyond belief by the general air of incompetence exhibited in the kitchen, and she went into the living room and got Shax, who is extraordinarily lazy and never catches his own chipmunks, but who is, at least, a cat, and preferable, Ninki saw clearly, to a man with a gun.

SYMBOLISM 4 When a person, place, thing, or event that has meaning in itself also represents, or stands for, something else. = Innocence = America = Peace

Allusion A tunnel walled and overlaid With dazzling crystal: we the verb “allude” had read which means “to refer Of rare Aladdin’s wondrous to” cave, 4 An allusion is a And to our own his name we reference to something gave. 4 Allusion comes from famous. From “Snowbound” John Greenleaf Whittier

IMAGERY 4 Language that appeals to the senses. 4 Most images are visual, but they can also appeal to the senses of sound, touch, taste, or smell. then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather. . . from “Those Winter Sundays”

SOME TYPES OF POETRY WE WILL BE STUDYING

4 Haiku 4 Limerick 4 Concrete 4 Lyrical 4 Narrative 4 Sonnets 4 Epic 4 Cinaquian 4 Free Verse 4 Blank Verse

Limerick 4 Limerick is one of the very popular kinds of poetry. A limerick is a funny little poem with a rhyme scheme of ‘aabba’.

Limerick Cont. 4 Limericks - The form Limericks consist of five lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.

Limerick Examples 4 Limerick: There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!'

Limerick Examples 4 Limerick There was a Young Lady of Norway, Who casually sat on a doorway; When the door squeezed her flat, She exclaimed, 'What of that? ' This courageous Young Lady of Norway.

Limerick Examples 4 Limerick There was once an ape in a zoo Who looked out through the bars and saw YOU Do you think it’s fair To give poor apes a scare? I think it’s a mean thing to do

CINQUAIN A five line poem containing 22 syllables Two Syllables Four Syllables Six Syllables Eight Syllables Two Syllables

Cinquain Patterns 4 Cinquain Pattern #1 4 Line 1: One word 4 Line 2: Two words 4 Line 3: Three words 4 Line 4: Four words 4 Line 5: One word 4 Cinquain Pattern #2 Line 1: A noun 4 Line 2: Two adjectives 4 Line 3: Three -ing words 4 Line 4: A phrase 4 Line 5: Another word for the noun

Cinquain Examples Dinosaurs Lived once, Long ago, but Only dust and dreams Remain

Cinquain Examples Baseball Bat cracks against The pitch, sending it out Over the back fence, I did it! Homerun

Cinquain How frail Above the bulk Of crashing water hangs Autumnal, evanescent, wan The moon.

HAIKU A Japanese poem written in three lines. Five Syllables Seven Syllables Five Syllables

Haiku An old silent pond. . . A frog jumps into the pond. Splash! Silence again

Assignment Read Haikus from the book pg. 956 -957 Answer questions 1, 2 a, 4 b, 4 c, 5 a Homework- Write 3 haiku, 1 limerick, 1 cinquain Due Next Class