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Essential Questions
1. What is poetry?
2. How is poetry different from prose?
3. How do authors use stylistic devices to affect the emotions of their readers?
4. How does the performance of poetry affect its meaning?
5. How can poetry be used as a tool for social justice?
What is Poetry? Some ResponsesWebster’s Dictionary: “Imaginative
language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.”
Audre Lorde: “The difference between poetry and rhetoric / is being / ready to kill / yourself / instead of your children.”
What do these have in
common?
Prose version: A woman stands on a mountain top with the cold seeping into her body. She looks on the valley below as the wind whips around her. She cannot leave to go to the peaceful beauty below. In the valley, the sun shines from behind the clouds causing flowers to bloom. A breeze sends quivers through the leaves of trees. The water gurgles in a brook. All the woman can do is cry
Poetry version
The Woman on the Peak The woman stands upon the barren peak, Gazing down on the world beneath. The lonely chill seeps from the ground Into her feet, spreading, upward bound. The angry wind whistles ‘round her head, Whipping her hair into streaming snakes, While she watches, wishes, weakly wails. Beyond the mountain, sunshine peeks, Teasing flowers to survive and thrive. The breeze whispers through the leaves, Causing gentle quivers to sway the trees. Laughter gurgles as the splashing brook Playfully tumbles over rugged rocks, While the woman above can only grieve.
Organizing Key TermsTypes of
PoemsSonnetLyricBalladElegy EpicIdyllPastoral
Figurative LanguageAlliterationAssonanceMetaphor SimileConceitHyperbolePersonificationMetonymyOnomatopoeia SimileSynecdoche
Allusion Imagery
Parts of a PoemVerse (Free and
Blank)StanzaCaesuraCoupletFootMeterRefrainStress
Key TermsAlliteration: the repetition of the same or similar
sounds at the beginning of words
Allusion: a reference to a famous person, thing, or work
Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds
Ballad: a poem that tells a story (such a folk tale or legend), often with a refrain
Caesura: a natural pause or break in a line of poetry
Conceit: a poetic image or metaphor that compares one thing to another that seems unlikely
Couplet: a pair of lines of the same length and that usually rhyme
Key TermsElegy: a poem written for the death of a person
Enjambment: the continuation of a sentence or idea across more than one line of poetry
Epic: a long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure
Foot: two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhyme in a poem
Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis
Idyll: a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene
Key TermsImagery: the use of language appealing to the
five senses
Lyric: a poem that expresses the thoughts or feelings of the poet
Metaphor: a comparison of two things when one is said to be the other
Meter: the arrangement of lines according to the number of syllables and rhythm
Metonymy: the substitution of one word for another closely associated word
Onomatopoeia: words used to imitate sounds
Pastoral: a poem that depicts rural life
Key TermsPersonification: giving human traits to non-
human objects or things
Refrain: a line or phrase repeated throughout the poem
Simile: comparison of two things using “like” or “as”
Sonnet: a 14-line lyric poem
Stanza: two or more lines organized to form the divisions of a poem
Stress: prominence or emphasis given to certain syllables
Key TermsSynecdoche: a part used to substitute for
the whole, or the whole is used to mean the part
Verse: a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose)
Free Verse: poetry with unrhymed lines or rhymed lines with no set meter
Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
Review
Literal Meaning:
Figurative Meaning:
Figurative DevicesSimile: Comparison using “like” or
“as”.
Metaphor: Comparison without using “like” or “as”.
Such devices make up...
Verse: a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose) Stanza: two or more lines organized to form the divisions of a poem
Stanza: two or more lines organized to form the divisions of a poem
HaikuHaiku grew from an early writing game
in which the first three lines of a poem were written by one person. A second person wrote the closing two lines. The great Japanese writer, Basho (1644-94) grew tired of this game. He felt that the first three lines could stand alone. In that way, haiku was born.
Issa
1811
春雨に大欠する美人哉
harusame ni ôakubi suru bijin kanain
the spring raina big yawn...pretty woman
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