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Poetry is the art of expressing one’s self and the things surrounding them.
Notice Rhyming is not included in the definition.
Many people assume Poetry is nothing more than rhyming words in a love poem, however that is not the only way to write poetry.
False!
Why?
What does it mean?
There are just as many ways to write poetry as there are to express yourself: Infinite. Three main factors are length, form, and subject
Next let’s review some important words.
Then we will start with the three main types of Poetry, each displaying the different factors. Let’s go over them, then test your knowledge!
Vocab
Important Vocab to Remember
Poem- a product of self-expression that uses the nature of song and speech that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical.
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Line- a sting of words, similar to a sentence, but does not need punctuation. Most poems will use punctuation at some point, be it a
period at the end or a comma here and there. Lines end in poems to add emphasis or a pause on certain words to give meaning, similar to commas in a regular sentence.
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Stanza- a group of lines that form a meaning, equivalent to a verse in a song.
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Title- an extra line to add clarity to the poem. A title does not have to be what the poem is about, most will
instead use it to clarify the true meaning of their poem. Since Most poems tend to be metaphorical, so this is a very common technique. Metaphorical poems can be read differently by every reader, titles help the author communicate the intended meaning to the reader.
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Rhyming
Many different types.
Any subject from love to death and everything in between. Note the definition of poetry. Review
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Rhyming
An endless amount of different forms, if the author chooses to follow a form.
If there is no specific form, like in a Limerick or Sonnet, then the poem is called Free-Verse.
Poems can also rely on the flow of words like in Syllabic poems, which can rhyme, but do not have to.
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Limerick
The limerick packs laughs anatomical
Into space that is quite economical.
But the good ones I've seen
So seldom are clean
And the clean ones so seldom are comical.
Unknown Author
Clear Pattern, the last word in each line rhymes like this,
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The pattern of a Limerick is A,A,B,B,A
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Limerick
There Once was a Man called Reg
Who Went with a Girl in a Hedge
Along came his wife
With a big Carving Knife
And cut off his meat and two veg
~ Matt Barton
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Notice the pattern is the same, A,A,B,B,A.
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Also notice that the topic of this poem is not the same as the last example
Sonnet
Typically 14 lines.
Older style, less modern.
Shakespeare was famous for his many, many sonnets.
Others poets have written sonnets as well, just not as many.
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Sonnet
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments, love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark,Whose worth's unknown although his height be taken.Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come, Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom: If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. ~William Shakespeare
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Sonnet
The Oven BirdThere is a singer everyone has heard,Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.He says that leaves are old and that for flowersMid-summer is to spring as one to ten.He says the early petal-fall is pastWhen pear and cherry bloom went down in the showersOn sunny days a moment overcast;And comes that other fall we name the fall.He says the highway dust is over all.The bird would cease and be as other birdsBut that he knows in singing not to sing.The question that he frames in all but wordsIs what to make of a diminished thing. ~Robert Frost
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Syllabic
Several ways to approach Syllabic poems. All forms use a fixed number of syllables per line.
Typically the last line is the only exception.
Stress and tone are the two main elements.
These can rhyme but do not have to.
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Syllabic
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sugar is sweet
And so are you~Unknown Author
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Notice, even though the last line does not match the syllabic pattern completely; all words only have 1 syllable the last word rhymes with a previous line to make it fit still.
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Syllabic"No Swan So Fine"
"No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles." No swan,
with swart blind look askanceand gondoliering legs, so fine
as the chintz china one with fawn-brown eyes and toothed goldcollar on to show whose bird it was.
Lodged in the Louis Fifteenth Candelabrum-tree of cockscomb-
tinted buttons, dahlias,sea urchins, and everlastings,
it perches on the branching foamof polished sculpturedflowers — at ease and tall. The king is dead.
~Marianne Moore
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She used a pattern of syllable line by line and did not use rhymes.
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Non Rhyming
As mentioned, not all poems have to rhyme.
Next are examples of types of poems that do not.
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Story/Narrative
Poetry can take on multiple elements at once. This example uses a paragraph form and the element of a story.
Ballads and Epics are also forms of narrative poetry.
This is an example of a Ballad. Ballads are narrative poems in stanzas. They can rhyme, but
do not have to. They are often spoken and passed as folk-lore.
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Story/Narrative
Rainbow yetiOver the rainbow there is an army of yetis ready to attack the fair tail world called earth they have been building their army under the great General Shea-yeatiface-ducksauce, who rides his magic unicorn into battle screaming remember the titans, which means nothing because we are all yetis here. Our great leader Master Dictator Yeti is said to have lots of the money, but we don’t need money because we can fly and everything we ever wanted comes from our fur. …
~Talon
Full Poem at,http://www.youngwritersproject.org/taxonomy/term/21022
Note how the subject is about potatoes and yetis. Poetry can be about anything.
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Story/NarrativeBe With Me
This is a ballad for the good timesSo put a battery in your leg
Put a rock beat over anythingGet it stuck there in your head
You can be with me
I got nothing to rely onI've broken every bone
Everybody's stop believingBut you know you're not alone
You can be with me
This is a ballad for the good timesAnd all the dignity we had
Don't get het up on the evil thingsYou ain't coming backYou can be with me
If you want to be You can be with me.... ~James DickensonPrevious Ex.
This one does rhyme. As I mentioned, narratives typically use more than one element of poetry. This one uses rhymes and is in the form of a ballad.
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Paragraph
Exactly as the title suggests, this form is in the form of a solid block of text rather than stanzas.
The story/narrative example, “Rainbow Yeti,” was also an example of paragraph.
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Paragraph
The List of Many Famous Hats
Napoleon's hat is an obvious choice I guess to list as a famoushat, but that's not the hat I have in mind. That was his hat forshow. I am thinking of his private bathing cap, which in all hon-esty wasn't much different than the one any jerk might buy at acorner drugstore now, except for two minor eccentricities. Thefirst one isn't even funny: Simply it was a white rubber bathingcap, but too small. Napoleon led such a hectic life ever since his…
~James Tate
Full Poem at
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15578
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Free verse
Free-Verse poems are the most common in modern poetry.
There is no set structure.
Rhyming and syllabic flow is allowed, but you do not have to have a specific structure binding the poems.
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Free verse
These poems are the easiest to do because the lack of rules binding them.
They can sometimes be in a block of text like a paragraph or ballad, however there is a distinct difference. Free-verse poems do not care how their lines end. All paragraph form and ballads end their lines specifically to give extra meaning and emphasis on certain words. Free-verse does not take this into consideration.
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Free verse
Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
~Carl Sandburge
There are two stanzas, but non of the two have a specific form and no set pattern is found.
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Free verse
Washed Away
Nothing's changed except me and the facts
And the sadness I didn't mean to start.
But it feels different now you've said
It's wrong, and I still can't see your point.
And I think as water runs over my hands that
That's really all there is or can be.
The gold is wearing off the infamous ring
And something wears away from around my heart.
~Katherine Foreman
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This example seems to be a narrative, just one with no set structure.
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Summary for Poetry
Poetry has an infinite amount of forms and the poet doesn’t even have to follow one.
Poetry is a form of free expression.
There are no constraints to the subject of a poem.
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Summary for Poetry
Poems can be about anything and be as long or short as the poet wants. Some are two lines, some are four or five pages long.
Poetry doesn't even have to make sense to the reader since it is the poets self-expression.
Let’s test what you have learned!
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Quiz Time!!
Let’s test what we have leaned.
If you find there is something you did not understand, you may go back and review.
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Question 1
What is poetry?
The art of expressing one’s self and the things around them.
Rhymes and fancy language.
Mushes stuff about love and dying.
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Not quite.
These view are bias view created when a person does not understand the truth about poetry.
Try again or review.
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Question 2
Poetry is based on,
Choose the answer that best fits.
Self Expression
Anything
Love and life
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Poetry is essentially whatever the poet wants it to be.
Be it yetis, hats, love, death, a bird, anything and everything. Sometimes poets write poems about nothing and they make no sense, because they are not supposed to.
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Very Good!
Correct!
There are no length constraints in poetry. A single word on a page could be called poetry.
Poems can be as long or as short as they want.
The art of Free-Expression.
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Good!
Even if you do not understand the poem, that doesn't make it a bad poem.
Poetry is self-expression, not everyone will express themselves in the same way.
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Good Job!
Not all poems have to be fiction.
Some are based on real people and or real events.
A lot of poems are metaphorical views on how a poets sees something, thus expressing themselves.
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Not all poems have to rhyme.
Forcing all poems to rhyme could take away from some of the free-expression.
Review for further explanation.
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Question 8
What is a stanza?
a group of lines that form a meaning, equivalent to a verse in a song.
A stand you sit on.
a sting of words, similar to a sentence, but does not need punctuation.
Question 9
What is the purpose of a title in a title?
To confuse the reader.
An extra line to add clarity to the poem.
A product of self-expression.
Great! Keep it up!
A title is used in a poem to add clarity about the poem’s intended meaning for the reader from the author
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Question 10
What is Free-Verse poetry?
A form of poetry using the sounds of words instead of rhyming patterns.
A form of poetry that was used often by Shakespeare.
A form of poetry with no set structure or pattern.
Great Job!
Free-verse poetry is poetry that is not bound by patterns or specific forms. It is free for the author to do what ever, how ever they decide is best.
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