Poetry Notes: Odes

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Poetry NotesOdes Sonnets

• Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth
  power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and
  blooded with emotions, all held together by the
  delicate, tough skin of words.-- Paul Engle

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Sonnet

• A 14 line lyric poem. There are several types of
  sonnets, many address strong emotions.
• Examples
• William Shakespeare
• Pablo Neruda
• e. e. cummings

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Ode

• A lyric poem, rhymed or unrhymed, written in
  praise or celebration of a subject.
• Examples
• Pablo Neruda
• Sarah Kay

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Simile

• A comparison between two unlike things, using a
  word such as like, as, than, or resembles.
• Examples
• "Life is like an onion You peel it off one layer
  at a time, and sometimes you weep."(Carl
  Sandburg)
• "you fit into melike a hook into an eyea fish
  hookan open eye"(Margaret Atwood)

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Metaphor

• A comparison between two unlike things in which
  one thing is said to be another.
• Example
• "Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find
  a parking spot at the end." (Isaac Asimov)
• Eyes are the windows to the soul.

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Hyperbole

• Overstating something, usually for comic effect
  exaggeration.
• Example
• Im so hungry I could eat a horse.
• His teeth were blinding white.
• I dont have two nickels to rub
• together.

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Personification

• When an animal, object, or idea is given human
  feelings, thoughts, or attitudes.
• Examples
• My computer throws a fit every
• time I try to use it.
• The waffle jumped up
• out of the toaster.