Poetry and Poems Poetry is a form of

Poetry and Poems

Poetry is a form of literature. It uses evocative language and form to convey an idea or an experience of a poet. convey an idea form an experience Evocative language a poet

History of English Poetry 5 th ~ 12 th century 12 th ~ 15 th century ~present Old English period Middle Age period Modern Age period

Forms of Poetry There is no “correct” form for a poem. It is individual and unique. However, sonnet refers to fourteen lined poems with a strict rhyme scheme.

Basic Elements of a Poem Stanza（詩節） as paragraph in articles. Rhyme（押韻） rhyming words 兩個英文字以同樣的讀音結尾。 examples：cold/gold, make/take, storm/warm.

Basic Elements of a Poem Rhythm（節奏） 音節強弱。 Rhyme scheme the pattern of rhyme between lines.

Figurative Language in Poems Metonymy 轉喻 Simile 明喻 Personification 擬人化 Metaphor 暗喻 Symbol 象徵

Famous Poets British Poets 1770 -1850 William Wordsworth 1564 -1616 William Shakespeare 1888 -1965 Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot)

Famous Poets American Poets 1830 -1886 1874 -1963 Emily Dickinson Robert Frost

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 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, page 1/2

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. page 2/2

William Wordsworth I Wonder LONELY AS A CLOUD I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. page 1/4

William Wordsworth I Wonder LONELY AS A CLOUD Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. page 2/4

William Wordsworth I Wonder LONELY AS A CLOUD The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company: I gazed---and gazed---but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: page 3/4

William Wordsworth I Wonder LONELY AS A CLOUD For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. page 4/4

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot) Preludes The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; page 1/2

Thomas Stearns Eliot (T. S. Eliot) Preludes The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps. page 2/2

Emily Dickinson Some things that fly there be, — Birds, hours, the bumble-bee — Of these no elegy. Some things that stay there be, — Grief, hills, eternity — Nor this behooveth me. page 1/2

Emily Dickinson Some things that fly there be There are, that resting, rise. Can I expound the skies? How still the riddle lies! page 2/2

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; page 1/4

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, page 2/4

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. page 3/4

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. page 4/4