EQ: Why is imagery and symbolism as a poetic device important to the understanding/appreciation of poetry?

Objective:Scholars will understand that a parody is;

An imitation of a particular writer, artist, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic/humorous effect.

Do Now:Read the parody•Oh William!!!!Oh William!!!

At your tables discuss what you noticed

Poetry is…

A type of literature that

expresses ideas and feelings, or

tells a story in a specific form

(usually using lines and stanzas)

A Parody

Is an imitation of a particular writer, artist, or a genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic/humorous effect.

Parody

The humorous effect in a parody is achieved by imitating and overstressing noticeable features of a famous piece of literature, where certain characteristics of a person are highlighted to achieve a humorous effect.

The obvious point to know about parody

In order to write a parody, there has to be an original work that the poet refers to (either to criticize or make fun of). Therefore, as readers, we need to be familiar with that original work in order to fully understand what is being parodied.

Function of Parody• Establishes a dialogue with the original work. In

order to write a parody, you need to really understand the original work to reproduce its style and manner.

• A commentary on the original work for different purposes (make fun of, criticize…etc.).

• The purpose of parody to be funny or witty and make us (the reader) laugh.

• Provides a fresh perspective on the original work and what it represents. That fresh look might be about the poem or about something larger than the poem.

Function of Parody

When one writer parodies another writer’s work, it does not necessarily mean that the original writing is without merit. According to critic Dwight Macdonald

“Most parodies are written out of admiration rather than contempt.”

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB8y2zLwkPY

Video

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXrMBRwhCio

1-How to Write a Parody

Start with a rhythm and a rhyme pattern you like and stick with it like glue. A consistent rhythm and rhyme pattern is an essential element in a poem that’s going to be fun to read. Probably the best way to accomplish that goal is to write a “pastiche” of a well-known poem or song.

Vocabulary

Pastiche-(N) a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs/techniques borrowed from one or more sources.

2-How to Write a Parody

You’ll need a premise or concept that expresses your humorous point-of-view about the subject. Then make a list of funny facts that support the humorous point you are trying to make.

For example, if you are making fun of a teacher, principal, sibling, parent, or  politician, you might want to write verses about how forgetful, contradictory, ineffective, or out of touch they seem to be.

3-How to Write a Parody

Then add humorous “facts” (the closer you get to the truth, the better) to support your point of view.

Acrostic Poems

The first letter of each line forms a word or phrase (vertically). An acrostic poem can describe the subject or even tell a brief story about it.

After an extensive winterPretty tulipsRise from the onceIcy ground bringing fresh signs of Life.

Haiku • Japanese style poem written in three lines• Focuses traditionally on nature• Lines respectively are 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5

syllables

Whitecaps on the bay:

A broken signboard banging

In the April wind.

Limerick

A five line poem with rhymes in lines 1, 2, and 5, and then another rhyme in lines 3 and 4.

Limerick

• A limerick is a silly poem with five lines.  They are often funny or nonsensical. 

How to write a limerick:

• The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9)The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6)

• Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."

Limerick Poetry

There was a young boy from Rome, who visited the Millennium Dome, it made him terribly sad, that it was so incredibly bad, he decided he might just as well go home!

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Limerick Poetry

There once was a hippie, Who was was very lippie. He liked to dance,With the antsSo everyone said he was dippie!

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Elegy

A poem mourning the dead.

A Poem written for someone who has died, often a tribute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cESxOduxOQ4

Elegy

This is what our dying looks like.You believe in the sun. I believeI can't love you. Always be closing,Said our favorite professor beforeHe let the gun go off in his mouth.I turned 29 the way any man turnsIn his sleep, unaware of the earthMoving beneath him, its plates inTheir places, a dated disagreement.Let's fight it out, baby. You have 

Only so long left—a man turningIn his sleep—so I take a picture.I won't look at it, of course. It'sHis bad side, his Mr. Hyde, the holeIn a husband's head, the OOf his wife's mouth. Every night,I take a pill. Miss one, and I'm gone.Miss two, and we're through. HotelsBore me, unless I get a mountain view,A room in which my cell won't work,And there's nothing to do but seeThe sun go down into the groundThat cradles us as any coffin can.

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Homework

Continue working on your poems via Google Docs/Graphic Organizer

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