Poetic Styles Descriptive Poetry Notable for its vividness

Poetic Styles � Descriptive Poetry �Notable for its vividness. �Uses descriptions that appeal to the senses �-Engages the imagination Acquainted with the Night (Frost) Birches (Frost)

Poetic Styles Con`t � Narrative Poetry �Tells a story �-Concerned with characters, setting and conflict On the way to the Mission The Zax –Identify the: plot, setting, characters, theme

Poetic Styles Con`t � Reflective Poetry �Searches for deep truths and poses the questions of existence. �Contemplates life & what it means to be human �-Eg. Who am I? Is there an ultimate purpose to life? What is the nature of happiness? Letter to a Future Generation- Journal Response Do you think ignorance of past atrocities, or knowledge of them is a better, more effective way to prevent these mistakes from being repeated?

Structure of Poetry � Rhyme Schemes �are described USING LETTERS that correspond to sets of rhymes. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; A All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, B Couldn’t put Humpty together again. B • The Rhyme Scheme for this poem is: A, A, B, B

Structure of Poetry � Meter – a. k. a. rhythm �The pattern of beats or stresses �Can be specific and consistent � Iambic Pentameter �Is a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet in a row. �The MOST COMMON meter in English poetry

Types of Poetry � Sonnet �A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter �Its subject is traditionally that of love. � 2 Kinds: ○ Petrarchan �Italian, octave (8 lines) & sestet (6 lines) �Rhyme scheme is ababcdcd then cdecde ○ Shakesperian �No octave/sestet structure �Rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg

Shakesperian Sonnet Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Types of Poetry Con`t � Villanelle �Poem of 19 lines �Has 5 stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines � 1 st line of 1 st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 2 nd and 4 th stanzas � 3 rd line of the 1 st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 3 rd and 5 th stanzas �These 2 lines are the last 2 lines of the poem �Rhyme scheme is aba

Villanelles � Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night �By Dylan Thomas � Reading Scheme �By Wendy Cope

Types of Poetry Con`t � Ballad �A song-like poem that tells a story (Narrative) �Four to Six line stanzas �Regular rhythm and rhyme schemes �“The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde

Types of Poetry Con`t � Concrete Poem �A Poem whose form represents its subject or theme. (Soda Pop)

Types of Poetry Con’t � Elegy �A poem whose purpose is to express grief or sorrow for the dead. Often read at funerals VS. � Eulogy (Not poetry usually) �A plain language speech whose purpose is to express sorrow or grief for the dead. Often read at funerals.

Elegies � Child Burial by Paula Meehan � Elegy before Death by Edna St. Vincent Millay � Tiara by Mark Doty

Types of Poetry Con`t � Ode �Poem written to celebrate an event, a person, a thing, a being, a power, an object etc. �Horatian Odes: follow a regular stanza pattern and rhyme scheme �Irregular Odes: No set stanza or rhyme scheme

Odes � Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Bowl of Goldfishes � Pablo Neruda’s Poems

Assignment � Write your own Ode or Elegy �It must be at least 12 lines �Can be about anything or anyone �Can be serious (tribute to someone you love/loved) �It can be humorous (a tribute to something unusual) �Due. Tuesday, November 22 nd