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Poetry: Exploring the Genre
Whether telling a story, capturing a single
moment, or describing nature in a whole new
way, poetry is the most musical of all literary
forms.
Poetry: Strategies for Writing
Writing poetry is like creating a mystery. You provide the reader with clues in the form of words and phrases. These clues are pieces that form a complete picture. Use these strategies to help guide you:
Poetry: Strategies
1.Figurative Language– Figurative language is language not meant to be
taken literally. – Helps to create vivid, clear mental pictures.– Think: What are you trying to SHOW the reader
2.Punctuating Lines– The reader continues reading when a line has no
punctuation at the end.– Create pause with commas, dashes, and
semicolons.– Create stops with end marks, like periods,
question marks, or exclamation points.
Poetry: Strategies for Writing
3. Paraphrase– Look up any dull or boring words and
replace them with familiar synonyms.– Use the language you use in everyday
speech in a new and interesting way.
4. Use your senses– Use sensory details to create imagery.
Create an experience for the reader.
Narrative Poetry
• Narrative Poetry:• Poetry that tells a story. Like a story, narrative
poetry has a plot, characters, and a setting. • Unlike a story, a narrative poem makes use of
sound devices, such as rhythm and repetition.
Literary Analysis: Form in Poetry
Form refers to the physical structure of the poem and the rules the poet follows to achieve a particular structure. – There are many different
forms of poetry including stanza, concrete poem, and haiku.
Stanza:– A group of lines that is
like a paragraph in prose. Most traditional English poems are divided into stanzas.
A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day.
Rhythm in Poetry
Rhythm is a poem’s pattern of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables.
It is the accents of the syllables in the words falling at regular intervals like the beat of music.
u ` u ` u `
– He came/upon/an age– “de dumm de dumm de dumm”
Meter in Poetry
The meter of a poem is its rhythmical pattern. The BEAT of poetry FEET is called its meter.
– Feet in poetry is single units of stressed (`) and unstressed (u) syllables
A poem’s meter is made up of what kind of feet are used and how many feet are in each line.
u ` u ` u `
– Beset/ by grief,/ by rage– This line of poetry has three feet. – Each foot has two syllables: an unstressed
followed by a stressed
Rhyme in Poetry
Rhyme is the repetition of a sound at the ends of nearby words– Example: age/rage; dame/same
Types of rhyme:– SINGLE RHYME- love/dove– DOUBLE RHYME- napping/tapping– TRIPLE RHYME- mournfully/scornfully
Sound Devices: Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia– The use of words
whose sounds suggest their meaning
– Example: sputter, drip, whisper, hiss, hoot, meow, murmur
Plop plop, fizz fizz,
oh, what a relief it is.
-Alka Seltzer
Sound Devices: Alliteration
Alliteration– Repeated
consonant sounds at the beginning of words
– Example: “Full fathom five
thy father lies” “In a summer
season, where soft was sun”
Often the sounds and meanings of the words combine to create a mood. – Here, repetition of b and
t stresses a feeling of urgency.
Hear the loud alarum bells-- Brazen bells!
What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells!
-Edgar Allen Poe, "The Bells"
Sound Devices: Assonance
Assonance– The repetition of
the same vowel sound in different words
– Often creates near rhyme
– Lake Fate Base Fade
This selection uses the repetition of the e sound:
-Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep.
-Shakespeare
Sound Devices: Consonance
Consonance:– The repetition
of similar final consonant sounds that can be found anywhere in the words.
Example: – silken, sad,
uncertain, rustling