Poetry What is Poetry something central to existence

Poetry

What is Poetry? “something central to existence, something having unique value to the fully realized life, something that we are better off for having and without which we are spiritually impoverished. ” More intense than ordinary language. Most condensed and concentrated form of literature. Involves not only your intelligence but also your senses, emotions, and imagination.

Reading the poem Read multiple times. Look up words. Read out loud Only stop or pause when punctuation indicates for you to do so. Read slowly Read so that the rhythmical pattern is felt but not exaggerated.

Denotation and Connotation Denotation: Dictionary definition Connotation: what the word suggests beyond the dictionary definition, associations. Think of the Denotation/Connotation of the following words: Home, childish, childlike

Imagery Representation through language of sense experience. Types of imagery include: Visual Auditory Olfactory Gustatory Tactile

Figurative Language Simile and metaphor are both used to compare things that are unlike. Simile is expressed by the use of a phrase such as like or as. “Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? ” Metaphor is a direct comparison. “Sorrow is my own yard”

Figurative Language Personification: giving the attributes of a human being to an animal, an object, or a concept. Apostrophe: addressing someone absent or dead or something nonhuman as if that person or thing were present and alive and could reply to what is being said. Onomatopeia: The use of words that mimic their meaning. (bang, boom, click)

Figurative Language Paradox: apparent contradiction that is nevertheless somehow true Overstatement or hyperbole: exaggeration in the service of truth Understatement: saying less than one means Irony: some sort of discrepancy or incongruity between expectation and fulfillment. (verbal, dramatic, situational)

Allusion: a reference to something outside the text (history, literature, etc. ) Tone: the writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward the subject; the emotional meaning of the work. Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds. Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds.

Poetic structures Stanza: a grouping of lines in poetry; poetry paragraph Rhyme scheme: the pattern of rhymes in a poem; indicated by ABC, etc. Fixed form: a traditional pattern that applies to a whole poem (sonnets, ballades, villanelles) Meter: the rhythmic beat of a poem Iambic pentameter: a series of 5 sets of unstressed-stressed syllables. Shift or turn: A change in tone or subject.

Sonnet: Shakespearean or Elizabethan 14 lines 3 quatrains and a rhyming couplet Rhyme scheme of ABAB/CDCD/EFEF/GG Iambic Pentameter

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 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.

Sonnet: Petrarchan or Italian 14 lines Rhyme scheme of: ABBA/CDCDCD or CDECDE Iambic pentameter

Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not soe, For, those, whom thou think’st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill mee. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroake; why swell’st thou then? One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.