POETRY

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POETRY

• Poetry is an expression of feeling and
  originality. Just as an artist may choose water
  colors or crayons to paint a picture, a musician
  may choose the piano or drums to create a song -
  you, the poet, will choose a form and method that
  will best convey your message.

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Writing poetry is easy if you have knowledge of
poetic forms and devices.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Sylvia Plath
Some poems follow rules like a haiku, concrete
or the emotions poem.
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William Shakespeare
Nikki Giovanni
Raymond Carver
Marshall Mathers
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POETRY is a language that has rhythm and is
more intense and meaningful than prose.
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Poetry Terms
Simile - compares two unlike things, using the
words like or as. His feet were as big as
boats.
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Metaphor - compares two unlike things directly,
without the use of like or as. Her hair is
silk.
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Alliteration - the repetition of consonant sounds
at the beginning of words. Peter Piper picked
a peck of pickled peppers.
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• Assonance- repetition of vowel sounds within
  words to create internal rhyming
• And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the
  sideOf my darling, my
• darling, my life and my
• bride. (Edgar Allen Poe)

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• Internal Rhyme rhyme that occurs within a line
  of verse, as in the grains beyond age, the dark
  veins of her mother (Dylan Thomas)

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Personification - assigning human qualities to
non-human things. The tropical storm slept for
two days.
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Onomatopoeia - words that imitate sounds. Boom.
Gurgle. Bang. Plink.
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Hyperbole - an exaggeration. I nearly died
laughing.
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Symbolism - an object that means what it is and
also something more. Lions often symbolize
royalty.
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Meter - how the beats are put together to form
lines of poetry. The combinations of long and
short syllables give poetry a rhythm, like music.
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Rhythm - pattern of long and short syllables in a
line. Some words receive greater emphasis than
others. This is similar to long and short notes
in music.
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Lyrics - the actual words poets write.
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Mood - the overall feeling the poem creates.
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INTERNAL RHYME - rhyming within a line. I awoke
to my fat cat climbing up my back.
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RHYME - a pattern of words that contain similar
sounds. I went to the fair with the girl with
the golden hair.
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STANZA - a unified group of lines in poetry.
(paragraph) VERSE - a line of poetry.
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POETIC FORMS
Acrostic Poetry - the first letter of each line,
when read vertically, spells out a word. The
word is usually the subject of the poem.
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J ust as I wake up A nd before I rise from bed N
ot yet look in the mirror I f I had a choice
instead C ertain that fate prevails E very day I
am at peace.
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HAIKU
an ancient Japanese form with no rhyme. This
type of poetry has three lines and it is usually
about nature.
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The dying plant bends (5) Dripping its life to
the ground (7) It falls
like a tear (5)
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CONCRETE POEM - use the words and their physical
formation to convey meaning.
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KINDS OF POETRY Lyric, Sonnet, Ode, Hymns, Songs,
Elegies, Narrative, Ballad, Folk, Epic, Romance,
Free Verse, Limerick, Haiku, Tanka, Concrete,
Cinquain, Blank Verse, Villanelle, Acrostic,
Epigram, Dramatic and more
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Now you are ready to write your own poetry. For
your poetry book you will write - a concrete
poem, a list poem, an emotion/action poem (what
if...), a first/last line poem, a haiku, your
own poem (any form or style with at least 12
lines), and one poem analyzed.