Friday, April 29, 2011
Elegy
Definition: Mourning poem for someone/animal who/that died.
Example: Angie
noone knows what really happened to her
all they know that she was naked and dead
some people say it was foul play some people say
it was a blood vessel in her head
but then i began to have these wierd dreams about her
some beautiful some horrible
but how do we know whats real and whats a fantasy
when Angie's not here to tell
Significance: To show feelings to that important someone that died.
Alliteration
Assonance
Definition: repeated vowel sounds to create rhyming within phrases or sentences.
Example: Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.
Significance: It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood.
Symbol
Interpretation
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Free verse: Poetry without rhyming or any specific rules.
Example: My epitaph stared back at me,
grinning knowingly at
the paper cut peep show.
Dead Man Shaving.
Fumbling through the motions
I smoked a peace pipe,
and declared war on life,
the universe,
and modern art.
Significance: This type of poetry does not have any regular meter, it's the easiest type of poetry to write.
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Elegy: A poem to mourn of someone who passed away, it can be an animal.
Example: Where are you Mom, where did you go
You have gone to a place I do not know
Your new world does not include me
It’s rather cloudy, from what I see
You sit there in your chair
With such a vacant empty stare
I wish I could bring back the better times
Significance: This type of poetry is written in elegiac meter and to use when we are sad of someone who's close to us has died.
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Odes: Long poems that celebrate about someone/something.
Example: Exceprt from Ode to Maize
America, from a grain
of maize you grew
to crown
with spacious lands
the ocean foam.
A grain of maize was your geography.
>From the grain
a green lance rose,
was covered with gold,
to grace the heights
of Peru with its yellow tassels.
But, poet, let
history rest in its shroud;
praise with your lyre
the grain in its granaries:
sing to the simple maize in the kitchen.
Significance: Odes give thanks to important people or objects.
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Sonnet: has fourteen lines with iambic pentameter (unstressed and stressed syllables)
Example: From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.
Significance: Shakespeare used this type of poetry all the time for his poems.
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Lyric: Expresses feelings of a speaker.
Example: A rhyme
in time
can save nine
Oh how I hate
the need to equate
poetry
symmetry
Upper case to start a line,
no fragments, rules,
poems with meter and rhyme
I don’t have time
to get the rhyme
right
Words need to flow
not be just so, so
I break the rules
parse my thoughts
schemes and let
it flow
Siginificance: This type of poetry tells the speaker's feelings, not a story. It can be from the poet's experiences.
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Epic: Long narrative poem with big words, tells stories of heroes.
Example: If love you found
Then why dream of an escape
All exits blocked,
No where to run
Dreams of false hope
I can still only dream you'll be in my arms again
Living against life
It shows no mercy
Within dreams uncovers the truth
The truth we so desperately try to hide
The nexus between joy and sorrow
Come closer together
(to be continued in parts)
Significance: This type of poem has been around for many years.
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Ballad: Song about love, betrayal, death.
Example: Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
Significance: Balladsd have a lot of repetition and uses simple language.
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Narrative: Poems that tell a story.
Example: The Last Tourament (Excerpt) by Alfred Tennyson
For Arthur and Sir Lancelot riding once
Far down beneath a winding wall of rock
Heard a child wail. A stump of oak half-dead,
From roots like some black coil of carven snakes,
Clutched at the crag, and started through mid air
Bearing an eagle's nest: and through the tree
Rushed ever a rainy wind, and through the wind
Pierced ever a child's cry: and crag and tree
Scaling, Sir Lancelot from the perilous nest,
This ruby necklace thrice around her neck,
And all unscarred from beak or talon, brought
A maiden babe; which Arthur pitying took,
Then gave it to his Queen to rear: the Queen
But coldly acquiescing, in her white arms
Received, and after loved it tenderly,
And named it Nestling; so forgot herself
A moment, and her cares; till that young life
Being smitten in mid heaven with mortal cold
Past from her; and in time the carcanet
Vext her with plaintive memories of the child:
So she, delivering it to Arthur, said,
'Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence,
And make them, an thou wilt, a tourney-prize.
Significance: A narrative poem is like a telling a story, but in a shorter version, which may rhyme. A narrative poem might be very interesting for readers to read because people tend to like stories.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Lines
Meter
Speaker
Definition: Feelings expressed by a person in a poem or a speech.
Example: Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
”Stopping by the Woods on Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost
Significance: : Often a speaker poem is a poem which tells about the poet’s experiences.
Tone
Definition: The rising and falling of your voice.
Example: I shall be telling this with a sign
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
"A Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Significance: Tone helps to tell a mood in a poem.
Couplet
Rhythm
Rhyme
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Imagery
Definition: Making readers to picture the poem in their mind by looking at the images and senses that they already know.
Example: Excerpt from “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot
The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.
Significance: Imagery help to make an author’s words more powerful with his/her own words.
Simile
Extended Metaphor
Stanza
Definition: a paragraph in a poem.
Example:
(STANZA ONE)
You magnify my happiness
When I am feeling glad;
You help to heal my injured heart
Whenever I am sad.
(STANZA TWO)
You’re such a pleasure in my life;
I hope that you can see
How meaningful your friendship is;
You’re a total joy to me.
Significance: Stanza helps us to figure out where people are talking in the poem when we have discussions. Like for example, if we needed to find line two, stanza two, it would be easier to locate where it is just by saying stanza two. Then, the people who were looking for line two in stanza two to locate it easier. Also, it helps for poets to not combine everything in a poem together, but to separate it so that it’ll be easier to read and it’d look nice.
Metaphor
Definition: When you use a metaphor, you use two nouns and compare it to one another without using “like” or “as”.
Example: Arguments can be explosives
With temper that you cannot control
Words are poison
Because of the things you cannot take back
Significance: Metaphor is important because we use it in English everyday. Authors indicate their point in literature use the use of metaphor. It helps us to compare or to exaggerate something.
Saturday, April 9, 2011
Poetry
Definition: Sentences that flow like a song, often rhyme or free verse.
Example: As I lay looking up in the sky, I saw a shooting star
I made a wish and hoped that it would go very far.
Significance: Since poetry is another form of art. It helps students to be more creative and know how to limit words in a sentence if it's spread out more.
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