This document defines and explains various elements of poetry, including style, structure, and literary devices. It discusses the differences between poetry and prose, and identifies common poetic elements such as rhyme, meter, figures of speech, and forms of poetry including sonnets and free verse. Key elements like imagery, diction, tone and mood are also explained.
This document provides an overview of the key elements of poetry, including:
- Poetry uses musical language to capture intense experiences, unlike prose.
- A poem has a speaker rather than a narrator. It is formatted with lines and stanzas.
- Figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and personification are used.
- Sound devices include alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia.
- Rhyme, rhythm, and meter patterns like iambic pentameter give poetry musical qualities.
- Different forms of poetry tell stories (narrative), express thoughts/feelings (lyric), or use characters (dramatic).
Poetry uses musical language to capture intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world. Unlike prose, poetry has a speaker rather than a narrator and uses formatting like line breaks and stanzas. Poems employ figures of speech, sound devices, rhyme, and rhythm/meter. Common forms include narrative poems, dramatic poems, lyric poems, haikus, sonnets, and free verse.
This document defines and discusses the key elements of poetry, including its distinction from prose, common poetic devices, and characteristics. It notes that poetry uses a speaker rather than a narrator, has line and stanza structures, and employs figures of speech like similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery are also discussed. Narrative poetry genres like ballads and epics that tell stories are briefly outlined.
Poetry is not prose. Prose is the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language.
This document provides an overview of poetry terms and types. It defines poetry as the creative use of words to stir emotion in the audience. Poetry can take fixed or free form and cover different subjects. The main types are lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Examples of each type are given. Literary devices like simile, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm are explained. Different poetic forms like sonnets and couplets are also defined. The document concludes with a reflection activity asking students to discuss what they like and dislike about poetry.
All About Poetry (Elements and Types of Poetry)Louise Gwyneth
This document provides an overview of poetry, defining it, outlining its key elements and forms, and describing different types of poetry. It defines poetry as literary work that uses distinctive style and rhythm to intensely express feelings and ideas. Some key elements discussed include stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, imagery, figures of speech, tone and theme. The main types covered are lyrical, narrative, dramatic and special forms like sonnets, odes and epics.
This document provides an introduction to poetry including definitions, types, terms, and examples. It can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Poetry is defined as a creative use of words intended to stir emotion, and it can take various forms including lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Common poetic devices are discussed such as figurative language, rhyme, meter, and imagery. Examples are also provided of different types of poems and how certain terms and techniques are used.
This document provides information about English poetry and different types of poetry. It discusses famous poets such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and John Keats. It then defines what poetry is and examines different forms of poetry including haiku, concrete poems, cinquain, diamante poems, clerihews, sonnets, free verse, blank verse, and narrative poems. The document concludes by outlining the TPCASTT method for analyzing poems.
This document provides an overview of the key elements of poetry, including:
- Poetry uses musical language to capture intense experiences, unlike prose.
- A poem has a speaker rather than a narrator. It is formatted with lines and stanzas.
- Figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and personification are used.
- Sound devices include alliteration, assonance, and onomatopoeia.
- Rhyme, rhythm, and meter patterns like iambic pentameter give poetry musical qualities.
- Different forms of poetry tell stories (narrative), express thoughts/feelings (lyric), or use characters (dramatic).
Poetry uses musical language to capture intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world. Unlike prose, poetry has a speaker rather than a narrator and uses formatting like line breaks and stanzas. Poems employ figures of speech, sound devices, rhyme, and rhythm/meter. Common forms include narrative poems, dramatic poems, lyric poems, haikus, sonnets, and free verse.
This document defines and discusses the key elements of poetry, including its distinction from prose, common poetic devices, and characteristics. It notes that poetry uses a speaker rather than a narrator, has line and stanza structures, and employs figures of speech like similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. Rhyme, rhythm, and imagery are also discussed. Narrative poetry genres like ballads and epics that tell stories are briefly outlined.
Poetry is not prose. Prose is the ordinary language people use in speaking or writing.
Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures intense experiences or creative perceptions of the world in a musical language.
This document provides an overview of poetry terms and types. It defines poetry as the creative use of words to stir emotion in the audience. Poetry can take fixed or free form and cover different subjects. The main types are lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Examples of each type are given. Literary devices like simile, metaphor, rhyme and rhythm are explained. Different poetic forms like sonnets and couplets are also defined. The document concludes with a reflection activity asking students to discuss what they like and dislike about poetry.
All About Poetry (Elements and Types of Poetry)Louise Gwyneth
This document provides an overview of poetry, defining it, outlining its key elements and forms, and describing different types of poetry. It defines poetry as literary work that uses distinctive style and rhythm to intensely express feelings and ideas. Some key elements discussed include stanzas, rhyme schemes, rhythm, imagery, figures of speech, tone and theme. The main types covered are lyrical, narrative, dramatic and special forms like sonnets, odes and epics.
This document provides an introduction to poetry including definitions, types, terms, and examples. It can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Poetry is defined as a creative use of words intended to stir emotion, and it can take various forms including lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry. Common poetic devices are discussed such as figurative language, rhyme, meter, and imagery. Examples are also provided of different types of poems and how certain terms and techniques are used.
This document provides information about English poetry and different types of poetry. It discusses famous poets such as Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and John Keats. It then defines what poetry is and examines different forms of poetry including haiku, concrete poems, cinquain, diamante poems, clerihews, sonnets, free verse, blank verse, and narrative poems. The document concludes by outlining the TPCASTT method for analyzing poems.
The document describes different types of poetry including lyric poetry such as sonnets, odes, and elegies. It also discusses narrative poetry genres like epics and ballads. Additionally, it covers dramatic poetry forms such as dramatic monologues, soliloquies, and orations. Specific poetry styles like haiku, cinquain, name poems, and free verse are also defined. In the second part, key terms are matched to their poetic genre descriptions.
The document provides an overview of key poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines elements such as stanzas, rhyme schemes, imagery, tone, mood, diction, persona, repetition, and themes. It also explains common poetic forms like couplets, quatrains, and tercets. Examples are given for many elements, such as imagery, repetition, and rhyme schemes. The document serves as a reference for understanding the building blocks of poetry.
Literature can be defined in 3 ways: preserved writings belonging to a language or people, notable writings of a country or period distinguished by form of expression, and writings that interpret nature and life through language. Literature includes imaginative works like poems, stories and plays that present fictional situations, and non-fiction works like biographies and essays that present actual facts and ideas. Studying literature allows one to express oneself, access culture, recognize human experiences, develop perspective and values. Literature consists of various genres like fiction, poetry, drama, and essays that use different structures, audiences and presentation styles.
This document provides an overview of poetry terms and concepts:
- It defines poetry as a type of literature that uses specific forms like lines and stanzas to express ideas and feelings.
- Key terms are introduced like line, stanza, rhyme, and rhyme scheme. Different types of poems are also outlined like free verse, acrostic poems, haikus, and limericks.
- Figurative language devices like similes, metaphors, and personification are explained.
- Examples of poems are provided to illustrate different concepts.
Poetry can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms and techniques to convey ideas, feelings, or tell a story. It uses elements like rhyme, rhythm, imagery and figurative language to express experiences or emotions in a unique way. There are many different types of poems including haikus, acrostics, free verse, couplets and more which vary in structure, length, and style.
Literature is defined as preserved writings belonging to a given language or people that are notable for their literary form or expression. It consists of works that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works that use fictional situations and characters as well as non-fiction works that present actual facts and ideas. Some key forms of literature are poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and biographies. Poetry uses devices like rhythm, imagery, and figurative language. Fiction encompasses genres like novels and short stories. Literature is studied to understand human experiences, develop values, and appreciate beauty in language.
Literature is defined as preserved writings belonging to a given language or people that are notable for their literary form or expression. It consists of works that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works that use fictional situations and characters as well as non-fiction works that present actual facts and ideas. Major literary genres include fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction works like essays and biographies. Poetry uses elements like rhythm, imagery, and form while fiction relies on elements such as plot, setting, characterization and point of view. Different literary types have distinct characteristics and serve different purposes for both authors and audiences.
This document provides an overview of poetry and music from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare's sonnets. It begins with definitions of different literary genres and an introduction to poetry. It describes techniques for analyzing poetic texts, including comprehension questions and sound devices. As an example, the document analyzes the song "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran. The document then provides analyses of The Prologue to Canterbury Tales and some of Shakespeare's sonnets, describing their themes and literary devices.
The document defines literature and discusses its various forms and elements. It states that literature consists of preserved writings that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works like poems, stories and plays that present fictional situations, as well as non-fiction works like biographies and essays that present actual facts and ideas. Different literary genres like poetry, drama, novels and essays are discussed. The key elements that make up literature - such as subject, form, point of view, rhyme, meter and imagery - are also explained.
The most Amazing English Story of all the timeYaseenKhan96
This is one of the best story that you do not need to read at all. Don't waste your time reading stupid english literature. Try exploring your own culture and avoid this devoid of humanity culture. You know why I am writing this description. Just to fill out this description. So in order to increase my scores and your scores, oh not your scores, I am writing these things which doesn't even make sense. Does it make sense to you? Obviosly not at all. So don't waste your time reading this? Are you still reading this? Oh no, You are obsessed with my writing. You made me happy not at all. Since I don't want to waste your time. I am just writing a long description for my own gains and you are here wasting your precious time. May be it's not precious but at least it is valuable and shouldn't be wasted at all. You get it?
This document provides an overview of a poetry and music class covering works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. It begins with an introduction to literary genres and reading poetic texts, examining elements like comprehension, sound devices, language and meaning. Specific works discussed include the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and several of Shakespeare's sonnets. Methods of analyzing these works are presented, focusing on elements such as metaphors, personification, symbols and other language devices. Musical examples are also provided to accompany some sections.
Here are the steps:
1. Paste strips containing information of the poet around the classroom.
2. Divide students into groups and assign each group a strip.
3. Students read their assigned strip and fill in Worksheet P2.
4. Allow students to move around and read other strips.
5. Get each group to present what they have learned about the poet to the class.
6. Discuss as a class any interesting facts about the poet and how it relates to the poem.
The document provides an overview of various poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements like theme, tone, symbolism, and irony are also discussed in the document.
The document provides an overview of key poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements like theme, tone, symbolism, and irony are also discussed in the context of analyzing poems.
The document discusses various elements of poetry such as stanzas, rhyme schemes, imagery, symbolism and themes. It defines different types of stanzas including couplets, tercets, quatrains and explains rhyme schemes like ABAB. It also explores poetic devices like imagery, symbolism, repetition and refrains that poets use to convey meaning and emotion.
The document provides an overview of various poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements of poetry like stanzas, lines, and refrain are explored with examples to illustrate their usage.
This document lists and provides examples of different types of poetry, including slam poetry, narrative poetry, ballads, lyric poetry, sonnets, limericks, free verse, and odes. It discusses characteristics of each type and provides examples to illustrate them.
The document discusses various forms and elements of poetry including couplet, tercet, quatrain, acrostic, haiku, senryu, concrete poem, free verse, and limerick. It also covers poetic devices such as imagery, diction, rhyme, rhythm, figures of speech, theme, and tone. Key elements of different poetry forms are defined such as the line and syllable structure of haiku and senryu. Literary devices used in poetry to achieve certain effects are also explained.
elements techniques and literarydevices.pptxjeannmontejo1
The document discusses the elements and techniques of poetry. It defines poetry and discusses its key components such as imagery, diction, form, cadence, meter, rhyme, rhythm, and stanzas. It also explains literary devices like alliteration, allusion, metaphor, personification, repetition, simile, symbolism, and theme. The document uses examples from poems to illustrate these different elements of poetry.
The document describes different types of poetry including lyric poetry such as sonnets, odes, and elegies. It also discusses narrative poetry genres like epics and ballads. Additionally, it covers dramatic poetry forms such as dramatic monologues, soliloquies, and orations. Specific poetry styles like haiku, cinquain, name poems, and free verse are also defined. In the second part, key terms are matched to their poetic genre descriptions.
The document provides an overview of key poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines elements such as stanzas, rhyme schemes, imagery, tone, mood, diction, persona, repetition, and themes. It also explains common poetic forms like couplets, quatrains, and tercets. Examples are given for many elements, such as imagery, repetition, and rhyme schemes. The document serves as a reference for understanding the building blocks of poetry.
Literature can be defined in 3 ways: preserved writings belonging to a language or people, notable writings of a country or period distinguished by form of expression, and writings that interpret nature and life through language. Literature includes imaginative works like poems, stories and plays that present fictional situations, and non-fiction works like biographies and essays that present actual facts and ideas. Studying literature allows one to express oneself, access culture, recognize human experiences, develop perspective and values. Literature consists of various genres like fiction, poetry, drama, and essays that use different structures, audiences and presentation styles.
This document provides an overview of poetry terms and concepts:
- It defines poetry as a type of literature that uses specific forms like lines and stanzas to express ideas and feelings.
- Key terms are introduced like line, stanza, rhyme, and rhyme scheme. Different types of poems are also outlined like free verse, acrostic poems, haikus, and limericks.
- Figurative language devices like similes, metaphors, and personification are explained.
- Examples of poems are provided to illustrate different concepts.
Poetry can be summarized in 3 sentences:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms and techniques to convey ideas, feelings, or tell a story. It uses elements like rhyme, rhythm, imagery and figurative language to express experiences or emotions in a unique way. There are many different types of poems including haikus, acrostics, free verse, couplets and more which vary in structure, length, and style.
Literature is defined as preserved writings belonging to a given language or people that are notable for their literary form or expression. It consists of works that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works that use fictional situations and characters as well as non-fiction works that present actual facts and ideas. Some key forms of literature are poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and biographies. Poetry uses devices like rhythm, imagery, and figurative language. Fiction encompasses genres like novels and short stories. Literature is studied to understand human experiences, develop values, and appreciate beauty in language.
Literature is defined as preserved writings belonging to a given language or people that are notable for their literary form or expression. It consists of works that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works that use fictional situations and characters as well as non-fiction works that present actual facts and ideas. Major literary genres include fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction works like essays and biographies. Poetry uses elements like rhythm, imagery, and form while fiction relies on elements such as plot, setting, characterization and point of view. Different literary types have distinct characteristics and serve different purposes for both authors and audiences.
This document provides an overview of poetry and music from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare's sonnets. It begins with definitions of different literary genres and an introduction to poetry. It describes techniques for analyzing poetic texts, including comprehension questions and sound devices. As an example, the document analyzes the song "Thinking Out Loud" by Ed Sheeran. The document then provides analyses of The Prologue to Canterbury Tales and some of Shakespeare's sonnets, describing their themes and literary devices.
The document defines literature and discusses its various forms and elements. It states that literature consists of preserved writings that interpret the meanings of nature and life through language in an artistic form. Literature includes imaginative works like poems, stories and plays that present fictional situations, as well as non-fiction works like biographies and essays that present actual facts and ideas. Different literary genres like poetry, drama, novels and essays are discussed. The key elements that make up literature - such as subject, form, point of view, rhyme, meter and imagery - are also explained.
The most Amazing English Story of all the timeYaseenKhan96
This is one of the best story that you do not need to read at all. Don't waste your time reading stupid english literature. Try exploring your own culture and avoid this devoid of humanity culture. You know why I am writing this description. Just to fill out this description. So in order to increase my scores and your scores, oh not your scores, I am writing these things which doesn't even make sense. Does it make sense to you? Obviosly not at all. So don't waste your time reading this? Are you still reading this? Oh no, You are obsessed with my writing. You made me happy not at all. Since I don't want to waste your time. I am just writing a long description for my own gains and you are here wasting your precious time. May be it's not precious but at least it is valuable and shouldn't be wasted at all. You get it?
This document provides an overview of a poetry and music class covering works by Chaucer and Shakespeare. It begins with an introduction to literary genres and reading poetic texts, examining elements like comprehension, sound devices, language and meaning. Specific works discussed include the prologue to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and several of Shakespeare's sonnets. Methods of analyzing these works are presented, focusing on elements such as metaphors, personification, symbols and other language devices. Musical examples are also provided to accompany some sections.
Here are the steps:
1. Paste strips containing information of the poet around the classroom.
2. Divide students into groups and assign each group a strip.
3. Students read their assigned strip and fill in Worksheet P2.
4. Allow students to move around and read other strips.
5. Get each group to present what they have learned about the poet to the class.
6. Discuss as a class any interesting facts about the poet and how it relates to the poem.
The document provides an overview of various poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements like theme, tone, symbolism, and irony are also discussed in the document.
The document provides an overview of key poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements like theme, tone, symbolism, and irony are also discussed in the context of analyzing poems.
The document discusses various elements of poetry such as stanzas, rhyme schemes, imagery, symbolism and themes. It defines different types of stanzas including couplets, tercets, quatrains and explains rhyme schemes like ABAB. It also explores poetic devices like imagery, symbolism, repetition and refrains that poets use to convey meaning and emotion.
The document provides an overview of various poetic elements and literary devices used in poetry. It defines common poetic terms like imagery, metaphor, simile, rhyme scheme, and free verse. It also explains different types of poetry like narrative, dramatic, and lyrical poetry. Elements of poetry like stanzas, lines, and refrain are explored with examples to illustrate their usage.
This document lists and provides examples of different types of poetry, including slam poetry, narrative poetry, ballads, lyric poetry, sonnets, limericks, free verse, and odes. It discusses characteristics of each type and provides examples to illustrate them.
The document discusses various forms and elements of poetry including couplet, tercet, quatrain, acrostic, haiku, senryu, concrete poem, free verse, and limerick. It also covers poetic devices such as imagery, diction, rhyme, rhythm, figures of speech, theme, and tone. Key elements of different poetry forms are defined such as the line and syllable structure of haiku and senryu. Literary devices used in poetry to achieve certain effects are also explained.
elements techniques and literarydevices.pptxjeannmontejo1
The document discusses the elements and techniques of poetry. It defines poetry and discusses its key components such as imagery, diction, form, cadence, meter, rhyme, rhythm, and stanzas. It also explains literary devices like alliteration, allusion, metaphor, personification, repetition, simile, symbolism, and theme. The document uses examples from poems to illustrate these different elements of poetry.
3. Elements of Poetry
•Poetry is not prose. Prose is the ordinary language
people use in speaking or writing.
•Poetry is a form of literary expression that captures
intense experiences or creative perceptions of the
world in a musical language.
•Basically, if prose is like talking, poetry is like singing.
•By looking at the set up of a poem, you can see the
difference between prose and poetry.
4. Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry
• Unlike prose which has a narrator, poetry
has a speaker.
– A speaker, or voice, talks to the reader. The
speaker is not necessarily the poet. It can also be
a fictional person, an animal or even a thing
Example
But believe me, son.
I want to be what I used to be
when I was like you.
from “Once Upon a Time” by Gabriel Okara
5. Distinguishing Characteristics of Poetry
• Poetry is also formatted differently from
prose.
– A line is a word or row of words that may or
may not form a complete sentence.
– A stanza is a group of lines forming a unit. The
stanzas in a poem are separated by a space.
Example
Open it.
Go ahead, it won’t bite.
Well…maybe a little.
from “The First Book” by Rita Dove
6. Figures of Speech: Literary
Devices
• A figure of speech is a word or expression that is
not meant to be read literally. There are several
different literary devices that author’s use in
poetry.
• A simile is a figure of speech using a word such as
like or as to compare seemingly unlike things.
Example
Does it stink like rotten meat?
from “Harlem” by Langston Hughes
What is
being
compared?
7. Figures of Speech
• A metaphor also compares seemingly unlike
things, but does not use like or as.
Example
the moon is a white sliver
from “I Am Singing Now” by Luci Tapahonso
• Personification attributes human like
characteristics to an animal, object, or idea.
Example
A Spider sewed at Night
from “A Spider sewed at Night” by Emily Dickinson
What is
being
compared?
What is being
personified?
8. Figures of Speech
• Hyperbole – a figure of speech in which
great exaggeration is used for emphasis or
humorous effect.
Example
“You’ve asked me a million times!”
• Imagery is descriptive language that applies
to the senses – sight, sound, touch, taste, or
smell. Some images appeal to more than one
sense.
What is being
exaggerated?
9. Sound Devices
• Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
sounds at the beginning of words.
• Example: Sally sells sea-shells by the sea shore.
• Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds
within a line of poetry.
– Example: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Do you like blue?
• Onomatopoeia is the use of a word or phrase,
such as “hiss” or “buzz” that imitates or
suggests the sound of what it describes.
10. Example of Sound Devices
“In the steamer is the trout
seasoned with slivers of ginger”
from “Eating Together” by Li-Young Lee
And the stars never rise but I
see the bright eyes
from “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe
What sound device do
you see here?
What sound device do
you see here?
11. Repetition
• The recurrence of sounds, words, phrases, lines or
stanzas in a poem.
• Writers use repetition to emphasize an important
point, to expand on an idea, to create rhythm, and
to increase the unity of the work.
• Example: The repeated chorus of a song emphasizes
the message of that song.
12. Rhyme
• Rhyme is the repetition of the same stressed vowel
sound and any succeeding sounds in two or more
words.
– Internal rhyme occurs within a line of poetry.
– End rhyme occurs at the end of lines.
• Rhyme scheme is the pattern of end rhymes that
may be designated by assigning a different letter of
the alphabet to each new rhyme
13. Example
A
A
B
B
C
C
“All mine!" Yertle cried. "Oh, the things I now
rule!
I'm king of a cow! And I'm king of a mule!
I'm king of a house! And what's more, beyond
that,
I'm king of a blueberry bush and cat!
I'm Yertle the Turtle! Oh, marvelous me!
For I am the ruler of all that I see!”
from “Yertle the Turtle”
by Dr. Seuss
14. In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the world and sky are one,
He shall ride the silver seas,
He shall cut the glittering
wave.
I shall sit at home, and rock;
Rise, to heed a neighbor’s knock;
Brew my tea, and snip my thread;
Bleach the linen for my bed.
They will call him brave.
“Penelope” by Dorothy Parker
Try this one on your own---mark the
rhyme scheme
15. Rhythm and Meter
• Rhythm is the pattern of sound created by the
arrangement of stressed and unstressed
syllables in a line. Rhythm can be regular or
irregular.
• Meter is a regular pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables which sets the overall
rhythm of certain poems. Typically, stressed
syllables are marked with / and unstressed
syllables are marked with .
• In order to measure how many syllables are
per line, they are measured in feet. A foot
consists of a certain number of syllables
forming part of a line of verse.
16. Iambic Pentameter
• The most common type of meter is called
iambic pentameter
• An iamb is a foot consisting of an initial
unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
syllable. For example, return, displace, to
love, my heart.
• A pentameter is a line of verse containing 5
metrical feet.
17. Significance of Iambic Pentameter
• Iambic Pentameter is significant to the study of
poetry because
– 1. It is the closest to our everyday speech
– 2. In addition, it mimics the sound of heart beat; a
sound common to all human beings.
– 3. Finally, one of the most influential writers of
our times uses iambic pentameter in all that he
writes – William Shakespeare.
18. Examples
Example #1
And death is better, as the millions know,
Than dandruff, night-starvation, or B.O
from “Letter to Lord Byron” by W.H.
Auden
Example #2
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book.
W.B. Yeats
19. Connotation and Denotation
Connotation - the emotional and imaginative
association surrounding a word.
Denotation - the strict dictionary meaning of a
word.
Example: You may live in a house, but we live
in a home.
20. Which of the following has a more
favorable connotation?
thrifty penny-pinching
pushy aggressive
politician statesman
chef cook
slender skinny
21. Elements of Poetry
When we explore the connotation and
denotation of a poem, we are looking at the
poet’s diction.
Diction – the choice of words by an author or
poet.
Many times, a poet’s diction can help unlock the
tone or mood of the poem.
22. Elements of Poetry: Tone and Mood
Although many times we use the words mood and tone
interchangeably, they do not necessarily mean the same
thing.
Mood – the feeling or atmosphere that a poet creates.
Mood can suggest an emotion (ex. “excited”) or the quality
of a setting (ex. “calm”, “somber”) In a poem, mood can be
established through word choice, line length, rhythm, etc.
Tone – a reflection of the poet’s attitude toward the subject
of a poem. Tone can be serious, sarcastic, humorous, etc.
23. Narrative Poetry
• Narrative poetry is verse that tells a story.
• Two of the major examples of narrative poetry
include:
– Ballads – a song or poem that tells a story. Folk
ballads, which typically tell of an exciting or dramatic
event, were composed by an anonymous singer or
author and passed on by word of mouth for
generations before written down. Literary ballads are
written in imitation of folk ballads, but usually given
an author.
– Epics – a long narrative poem on a great and serious
subject that is centered on the actions of a heroic figure
24. Dramatic Poetry
• Dramatic poetry is poetry in which one or
more characters speak.
– Each speaker always addresses a specific listener.
– This listener may be silent (but identifiable), or the
listener may be another character who speaks in
reply.
– Usually the conflict that the speaker is involved
with is either an intense or emotional.
25. Lyric Poetry
• Lyric poetry is poetry that expresses a
speaker’s personal thoughts and feelings.
– Lyric poems are usually short and musical.
– This broad category covers many poetic types and
styles, including haikus, sonnets, free verse and
many others.
26. Free Verse
• Free verse is poetry that has no fixed pattern
of meter, rhyme, line length, or stanza
arrangement.
• When writing free verse, a poet is free to vary
the poetic elements to emphasize an idea or
create a tone.
• In writing free verse, a poet may choose to use
repetition or similar grammatical structures to
emphasize and unify the ideas in the poem.
27. Free Verse
• While the majority of popular poetry today is written
as free verse, the style itself is not new. Walt
Whitman, writing in the 1800’s, created free verse
poetry based on forms found in the King James Bible.
• Modern free verse is concerned with the creation of a
brief, ideal image, not the refined ordered (and
artificial, according to some critics) patterns that
other forms of poetry encompass.
28. Example of Free Verse
The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirmed case,
He will never sleep any more as he did it in the cot in his mother’s bedroom;
The dour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case,
He turns is quid of tobacco, his eyes blurred with the manuscript;
The malformed limbs are tied to the anatomist’s table,
What is removed drops horribly in the pail;
The quadroon girl is sold at the stand….the drunkard nods by the barroom
stove…
Excerpt from “Song of Myself” (section 15)
Walt Whitman
29. Sonnets
• Background of Sonnets
– Form invented in Italy.
– Most if not all of Shakespeare’s sonnets are about
love or a theme related to love.
– Sonnets are usually written in a series with each
sonnet a continuous subject to the next. (Sequels in
movies)
30. Sequence of Sonnets
• Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets and can be broken up by the
characters they address.
– The Fair Youth: Sonnets 1 – 126 are devoted to a young man of
extreme physical beauty. The first 17 sonnets urge the young man to
pass on his beauty to the next generation through children. From
sonnet 18 on, Shakespeare shifts his viewpoint and writes how the
poetry itself will immortalize the young man and allow his beauty to
carry on.
– The Dark Lady: Sonnets 127 – 154 talk about an irresistible woman
of questionable morals who captivates the young poet. These sonnets
speak of an affair between the speaker and her, but her unfaithfulness
has hurt the speaker.
– The Rival Poet: This character shows up during the fair youth series.
The poet sees the rival poet as someone trying to take his own fame and
the poems refer to his own anxiety and insecurity.
31. Structure of Sonnets
The traditional Elizabethan or Shakespearean
sonnet consists of fourteen lines, made up of
three quatrains (stanzas of 4 lines each) and a
final couplet (two line stanza). Sonnets are
usually written in iambic pentameter. The
quatrains traditionally follow an abab rhyme
scheme, followed by a rhyming couplet.
32. Example
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
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 dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.