Bellwork: Journal Entry #1Write a one page paragraph about your “wildest” and “noisiest” class. Describe the sights, sounds, smells, etc. Be as descriptive as possible.

Elements of Poetry

Poetry Unit Day 2

Poetic Elements Dealing with Word Choice

RhymeImageryAlliterationRepetitionToneMood

Rhyme Repetition of sounds at the ends of words. Poets use rhyme to lend a song-like quality to their verses and to emphasize certain words or ideas Many poems contain end-rhymes or rhyming words at the ends of lines

Our English language? A curious thing!Hammers don't ham and fingers don't fing,Grocers don't groce and ushers don't ush,And why is a rear called a toosh, not a tush?

Imagery Words or phrases that appeal to one or more of the 5 sensesWriters use imagery to describe how their subjects look, sound, feel, taste, and smellPoets often paint images, or word pictures, that also appeal to your sensesThese pictures help you experience the poem fully

Alliteration The repetition of initial consonant soundsWriters use this to draw attention to certain words or ideas to imitate sounds and to create musical effects

The beautiful bouquet blossomed in the bright sun.

Repetition Use, more than once, of any element of language- A sound, word, phrase clause or sentenceUsed in prose and poetry

“T'is So Much Joy”, by Emily Dickinson

’T is so much joy! ’T is so much joy!If I should fail, what poverty!And yet, as poor as IHave ventured all upon a throw;Have gained! Yes! Hesitated soThis side the victory!

ToneWriter’s attitude toward his or her audience and subject Often be described by an adjective such as formal or informal, serious or playful, bitter or ironicFactors that contribute to the tone are word choice, sentence structure, line length, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition

Mood Feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passageSimilar to tone

Organization of Poetry StructureLinesStanzaCouplet

Stanza Group of lines of poetry that are usually similar in length and pattern and are separated by spacesLike a paragraph of poetryIt states and develops a single main idea

Couplet In poetry, a couplet is a pair of lines (2 lines). Typically, they rhyme and have the same meter. They make up a unit or complete thought.

O, how I faint when I of you do write,Knowing a better spirit doth use your name,And in the praise thereof spends all his might,To make me tongue-tied, speaking of your fame!

There lives more life in one of your fair eyes,Than both your poets can in praise devise.

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk endsAnd before the street begins,And there the grass grows soft and white,And there the sun burns crimson bright,And there the moon-bird rests from his flightTo cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows blackAnd the dark street winds and bends.Past the pits where the asphalt flowers growWe shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And watch where the chalk-white arrows goTo the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,For the children, they mark, and the children, they knowThe place where the sidewalk ends.

Types of Poetry Formal VerseFree VerseLyric PoetryNarrative PoetryBalladsEpic PoetryDramatic Poetry

Formal Verse Poetry that overtly uses the effects of meter, rhyme and form, especially the fixed forms (sonnets, villanelles etc.)

Free VersePoetry that is open to pattern and is recognized as nonconforming and rhyme-less verse.

Lyric Poetry Highly musical verse that expresses the observations and feelings of a single speaker Creates single unified impression

Narrative Poetry Story told in verse Narrative poems often have all the elements of short stories including characters, conflict, and plot

Ballads A poem or song narrating a story in short stanzas. Traditional ballads are typically of unknown authorship, having been passed on orally from one generation to the next as part of the folk culture.

Epic Poetry Heroic poetryPoetry celebrating the deeds of a hero

Dramatic Poetry A verse or verses which are written to be spoken, usually by a character invented by the author himself. As opposed to lyric and narrative poetry, dramatic poetry is narrated by the characters themselves. The term is also used to refer to plays written in verse, such as most of Shakespeare's plays.