This document provides an overview of poetry, including what poetry is, common types of poetry, parts of a poem, different line endings, how to interpret poems, famous poets and poems, and rhythms in poetry. It defines poetry as the rhythmic composition written or spoken through elevated emotions. It lists many types of poetry such as sonnets, odes, haiku. It describes the basic parts of a poem including lines and stanzas. It also discusses end-stopped vs enjambed lines and provides examples. The document encourages interpreting poems in different ways and lists several famous poets and poems. Finally, it briefly introduces some common poetic rhythms.

1. POETRY
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2. WHAT IS POETRY?
Poetry is the rhythmical
composition, written or
spoken, by elevated
emotions.
Basically, poetry is expressing yourself in
writing means or speaking. Poetry doesn’t
HAVE to rhythmic, actually most poets
don’t write in rhythm any longer.

3. TYPES OF POETRY
There are many different Tanka
types of poetry that many Sonnet
different authors like to use.
Here are some of the most
common kinds:
Rondeau
Jintishi
Ode Sestina
Villanelle Haiku
Sijo Pantoum
How many of these have you heard of ?

4. PARTS OF A POEM
 Line- A line is one straight line
Example:
of the poem. When the line A line -> The bird is flying west,
To see his loving family
ends, the words start on the next
All four lines= But does the family remember?
line. One stanza Where will he go otherwise?
He sees his mom, dad, sister,
They rush to see him
 Stanza- A group of lines form
They remember everything,
to make a stanza. These are like Every moment he’s been gone.
the paragraphs of the poem.

5. E N D S T O P P E D V S. E N JA M M E D
An End-stopped line is
Example:
one that ends with
The bird is flying west, < End-stopped
punctuation. To see his loving family < Enjammed
But does the family remember?
Where will he go otherwise?
An enjammed line is
He sees his mom, dad, sister,
when the line continues They rush to see him
to the next line to They remember everything,
Every moment he’s been gone.
continue a thought.

6. H OW T O I N T E R P R E T A P O E M
You can do so any way you so
choose! Many poems have many
different interpretations!
One person could think it’s sad,
and another could think it’s happy!

7. FAMOUS POETS AND POEMS
I, Too, Sing America by Langston
Hughes
Phenomenal Woman by Maya
Angelou
Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel
Silverstein
If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
I carry your heart with me by E. E.
Cummings
Fast rode the knight by Stephen
Crane
The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar
Allan Poe
There is another sky by Emily
Dickinson
A Girl by Ezra Pound
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein

8. RHYTHMS OF POETRY
Poetry can Iambic
have many
different
Trochaic
rhythms to it. Spondaic
Here are some
of the different
Anapestic
rhythms that Dactylic
many famous
poets use:

9. RHYTHM CONT.
Rhythms are
interesting, but
sometimes very hard
things to use. I
rhythm can add
great depth to a
poem, or make the
poem sound just
plain silly so be
careful if you do
choose to use it!

10. Homework
Find a famous poem from a
famous author that you like.
Print it out, bring it to class and
share it with the class. Tell us
what you think about it, what
you think it means, and any
other indications the author
may have had.

11. THAT’S IT!
 Have a great day everyone!