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Title: Introduction to Poetry


1
Introduction to Poetry
  • Key Terms

2
Standard
  • ELA8R1g The student Analyzes and evaluates the
    effects of sound, form, figurative language, and
    graphics in order to uncover meaning in
    literature
  • i. Sound (e.g., alliteration, onomatopoeia,
    internal rhyme, rhyme scheme, meter)
  • ii. Figurative language (e.g., simile, metaphor,
    personification, hyperbole, symbolism, imagery).

3
What is a Poem(1)?
  • A poem is a verbal composition created in verse
    rather than prose
  • Prose is ordinary writing that relies on
    sentences and paragraphs.
  • Verse is writing that happens in lines or
    stanzas. It is not confined to paragraphs.

4
Line (4)
  • A line is a row of words within a poem.
  • A line might be very long, or it might be as
    short as one word, or even one letter.
  • One complete thought might be split up over
    several lines, so a reader shouldnt necessarily
    pause at the end each line. It might flow right
    into the next one with no stop. Pause when you
    reach punctuation.

5
1. How many lines?2. Where should the reader
pause?
  • If I can stop one heart from breaking,I shall
    not live in vainIf I can ease one life the
    aching,Or cool one pain,Or help one fainting
    robinUnto his nest again,I shall not live in
    vain.
  • - Emily Dickinson
  •    

6
Stanza (3)
  • A stanza is one group of lines within a poem.
  • A stanza can be made of as many lines as the poet
    desires.
  • Stanzas are usually separated by a horizontal gap
    of space on a page.
  • A poem might have one stanza or many stanzas.
  • The form each stanza follows does not have to
    match, but it can.

7
How Many Stanzas
  • I have eaten This is Just To Saythe
    plums by William Carlos Williamsthat were
    inthe icebox and whichyou were
    probablysavingfor breakfast Forgive methey
    were deliciousso sweetand so cold

8
Rhyme (2)
  • A rhyme is 2 or more words that end with the same
    vowel sound.
  • Poems can rhyme, but they dont have to.
  • Rhyming words can be found in a Rhyming
    Dictionary

9
Rhyme Scheme (5)
  • Rhyme Scheme is the pattern in which a poems
    rhymes are arranged.
  • Some poems have a very rigid, predictable rhyme
    scheme pattern
  • Some poems have no rhyme scheme at all

10
Labeling Rhyme Scheme
  • We label rhyme scheme by calling the first line
    A. Every line in that stanza that rhymes with
    A is labeled A.
  • The first line that does NOT rhyme with A is
    labeled B. Every line that rhymes with B is
    labeled B.
  • Continue going through the alphabet until you run
    out of lines in the stanza.
  • We name the rhyme scheme after the pattern

11
Example A Hippo is Bounding
  • A hippo is bounding around on my head.
  • Gorillas are banging on drums.
  • A rhino is charging me full speed ahead
  • while a crocodile's eyeing my thumbs.
  •  A rattlesnake's winding his way up my side.
  • A tiger is sniffing my clothes.
  • A grizzly just grabbed me, his mouth open wide.
  • A tarantula's perched on my nose. 
  • I'm drowning, surrounded by man-eating sharks.
  • An elephant sits on my chest.
  • Yes, that's how it feels when the teacher
    remarks,
  • "Grab your pencils. It's time for the test."
  • --Kenn Nesbitt

12
Free Verse (22)
  • Free Verse is when a poem has no set rhyme or
    pattern.
  • The verse does not conform to a specified number
    of lines or syllables.
  • It may have no rhyme whatsoever, though the
    author may occasionally throw a rhyme in here and
    there. The rhyme, however, will NOT have a
    pattern.

13
Free Verse Example
  • Sunset by Lillian Moore
  • There's dazzle
  •                     in the western sky
  • Colors spill and
  • run
  • The pond mouth
  • lies open
  •                     greedy
  • for the last drop
  • of
  • melting
  • sun
  •                 

14
Assignment!
  • Write a poem in your interactive notebook (on
    page 6). You can write about family, friends, or
    current events (things going on in the world).
    You can make it have a rhyme scheme or use free
    verse.
  • GO! ?
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