This document provides an overview of poetry, including its definition, functions, and key elements. It can be summarized as follows:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms to express ideas, feelings, and tell stories through language. It uses elements like line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound to build vivid images and convey meaning in a unique way. Some key elements of poetry discussed are line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound devices like rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Figures of speech like simile and metaphor are also used to create imagery in poetry.
This document provides an overview of poetry, including its definition, functions, and key elements. It can be summarized as follows:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms to express ideas, feelings, and tell stories through language. It uses elements like line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound to build vivid images and convey meaning in a unique way. Some key elements of poetry discussed are line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound devices like rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Figures of speech like simile and metaphor are also used to create imagery in poetry.
This document provides an overview of poetry, including its definition, functions, and key elements. It can be summarized as follows:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms to express ideas, feelings, and tell stories through language. It uses elements like line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound to build vivid images and convey meaning in a unique way. Some key elements of poetry discussed are line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound devices like rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Figures of speech like simile and metaphor are also used to create imagery in poetry.
This document provides an overview of poetry, including its definition, functions, and key elements. It can be summarized as follows:
Poetry is a type of literature that uses specific forms to express ideas, feelings, and tell stories through language. It uses elements like line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound to build vivid images and convey meaning in a unique way. Some key elements of poetry discussed are line, stanza, rhythm, imagery, and sound devices like rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. Figures of speech like simile and metaphor are also used to create imagery in poetry.
Arranged By : MUHAMMAD ZULGHIFFARI What is Poetry? - Poetry is a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form. - In poetry the sound and meaning of words are combined to express feelings, thoughts, and ideas. - Poetry is usually written in lines. FUNCTION OF POETRY Ø Poetry asks you to feel something (that’s the heart part), no just think about it Ø Poets create word pictures that build an image in your mind Ø A very unique form of literature Ø Comes in all shapes and forms Ø Can be short or long Ø Poetry is Everywhere ELEMENTS OF POETRY 01 Line 04 Imagery 02 Stanza 05 Sound 03 Rhythm ELEMENTS OF POETRY 01 LINE > In poetry, its the closest thing there is to a sentence. Example :
Line 1 Whose woods these are I think I know.
Line 2 His house is in the village though; Line 3 He will not see me stopping here. Line 4 To watch his woods fill up with snow. ELEMENTS OF POETRY 02 STANZA > Abreaks group of lines separated from other lines by in the poem. Similar to a paragraph
Example :
Whose woods these are I think I know.
One Stanza His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. ELEMENTS OF POETRY LINE and STANZA Most poems are written in March lines. A blue day A group of lines in a poem is A blue jay And a good beginning. called a stanza. One crow, Stanzas separate ideas in Melting snow – a poem. They act like Spring’s winning! paragraphs. This poem has two By Eleanor Farjeon stanzas. ELEMENTS OF POETRY 03 RHYTHM > The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. There s a definite rhythm.
Example : Can you find rhythm below ?
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. ELEMENTS OF POETRY 04 IMAGERY Imagery is the use of words to create pictures, or images, in your mind. Appeals to the five senses: Five smell, sight, hearing, taste and touch. Senses
Details about smells, sounds, colors, and taste
create strong images. To create vivid images writers use figures of speech. ELEMENTS OF POETRY 05 SOUND Auditory senses are triggered by reference to loudness, timbre, actual words spoken, and so on. Writers love to use interesting sounds in their poems. After all, poems are meant to be heard. These sound devices include: v Rhyme v Repetition v Alliteration v Onomatopoeia ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES 1 Rhyme • Rhymes are words that end with the same sound/alike. (Hat, cat and bat rhyme.) • Rhyming sounds don’t have to be spelled the same way. (Cloud and allowed rhyme.) • The vowel sound of two words is the same, but the initial consonant sound is different. • Rhyme helps to unify a poem; it also repeats a sound that links one concept to another, thus helping to determine the structure of a poem.
ABBA – lines 1 & 4 rhyme and lines 2 & 3 rhyme ABCB – lines 2 & 4 rhyme and lines 1 & 3 do not rhyme ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES Example of Rhyme AABB – lines 1 & 2 rhyme and lines 3 & 4 rhyme
Example :
First Snow Snow makes whiteness where it falls. The bushes look like popcorn balls. And places where I always play, Look like somewhere else today. By Marie Louise Allen ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES Example of Rhyme ABAB – lines 1 & 3 rhyme and lines 2 & 4 rhyme
Example : Oodles of Noodles
I love noodles. Give me oodles
Make a mound up to the sun Noodles are my favorite foodles I eat noodles by the ton
By Lucia and James L. Hymes, Jr.
ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES Example of Rhyme ABBA – lines 1 & 4 rhyme and lines 2 & 3 rhyme
Example : From “Bliss”
Let me fetch sticks,
Let me fetch stones, Throw me your bones, Teach me your tricks. By Eleanor Farjeon ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES Example of Rhyme ABCB – lines 2 & 4 rhyme and lines 1 & 3 do not
Example : The Alligator
The alligator chased his tail
Which hit him in the snout; He nibbled, gobbled, swallowed it, And turned right inside-out. By Mary Macdonald ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES 2 Repetition • Repetition occurs when poets repeat words, phrases, or lines in a poem. • Creates a pattern. • Increases rhythm. • Strengthens feelings, ideas and mood in a poem. Example : The Sun Some one tossed a pancake, A buttery, buttery, pancake. Someone tossed a pancake And flipped it up so high, That now I see the pancake, The buttery, buttery pancake, Now I see that pancake Stuck against the sky. By Sandra Liatsos ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES 3 Alliteration Alliteration is the repetition of the first consonant sound in words, as in the nursery rhyme “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Example : This Tooth I jiggled it jaggled it jerked it. I pushed and pulled and poked it. But – As soon as I stopped, And left it alone This tooth came out On its very own!
By Lee Bennett Hopkins
ELEMENTS OF POETRY SOUND DEVICES 4 Onomatopoeia • Words that represent the actual sound of something are words of onomatopoeia. Dogs “bark”, cats “purr”, thunder “booms”, rain “drips”, and the clock “ticks”. • Appeals to the sense of sound. Example : Listen Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch. Crunch, crunch, crunch. Frozen snow and brittle ice Make a winter sound that’s nice Underneath my stamping feet And the cars along the street. Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch. Crunch, crunch, crunch.
By Margaret Hillert FIGURE OF SPEECH Figures of speech are tools that writers use to create images, or “paint pictures,” in your mind. Similes, metaphors, and personification are three figures of speech that create imagery FIGURE OF SPEECH 1 SIMILE • A simile compares two things using the words “like” or “as”. • Comparing one thing to another creates a vivid image.
Example : Flint An emerald is as green as grass, A ruby red as blood; A sapphire shines as blue as heaven; A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the world’s desire; An opal holds a fiery spark; But a flint holds fire. By Christina Rosetti FIGURE OF SPEECH 2 METAPHOR • A metaphor compares two things without using the words “like” or “as”. • Gives the qualities of one thing to something that is quite different.
Example :
The Night is a Big Black Cat
The Night is a big black cat
The moon is her topaz eye, The stars are the mice she hunts at night, In the field of the sultry sky.
By G. Orr Clark FIGURE OF SPEECH 3 PERSONIFICATION • Personification gives human traits and feelings to things that are not human – like animals or objects.
Example : From Mister ‘Sun’ Mister Sun Wakes up at dawn, Puts his golden Slippers on, Climbs the summer Sky at noon, Trading places With the moon. by J. Patrick Lewis TYPES OF POETRY TYPES OF POETRY ~ BALLAD ~ It’s a poem that tells a story
Example: The Raven by Edward Allen Poe
Going back to music, how many ballad songs
can you think of? TYPES OF POETRY ~ FREE VERSE ~ A poem that does NOT rhyme! (yes, they exist!)
Example : Shakespeare was a natural at this; For in his play, The
Tempest, his character says the following lines:
Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves,
And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and fly him When he comes back; TYPES OF POETRY ~ COUPLET ~ A couplet is a poem, or stanza in a poem, written in two lines. Usually rhymes Example: The Jellyfish Who wants my jellyfish ? I’m not sellyfish ! By Ogden Nash TYPES OF POETRY ~ HAIKU ~ A Japanese poem with 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables. (Total of 17 syllables.) Does not rhyme. It is about an aspect of nature or the seasons.
Example: Little frog among rain-shaken leaves, are you, too, splashed with fresh, green paint? By Gaki TYPES OF POETRY ~ TERCET ~ A tercet is a poem, or stanza, written in three lines. Usually rhymes. Lines 1 and 2 can rhyme; lines 1 and 3 can rhyme; sometimes all 3 lines rhyme.
Example: Winter Moon How thin and sharp is the moon tonight! How thin and sharp and ghostly white Is the slim curved crook of the moon tonight! By Langston Hughes TYPES OF POETRY ~ QUATRAIN ~ A quatrain is a poem, or stanza, written in four lines. The quatrain is the most common form of stanza used in poetry. Usually rhymes. Can be written in variety of rhyming patterns. Example: The Lizard The lizard is a timid thing That cannot dance or fly or sing; He hunts for bugs beneath the floor And longs to be a dinosaur. By John Gardner TYPES OF POETRY ~ CINQUAIN ~ A cinquain is a poem written in five lines that do not rhyme. Unrhymed poem with the pattern of 2,4,6,8,2 syllables
Example : Baseball Bat cracks against The pitch, sending it out Over the back fence, I did it! Homerun By Cindy Barden TYPES OF POETRY ~ SONNET ~ 14 lined poem with the following rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Example: Shakespeare Sonnet Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of he`aven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd; But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this and this gives life to thee. TYPES OF POETRY ~ DIAMANTE ~ A diamante is a seven-line poem written in the shape of a diamond. Does not rhyme. Follows pattern. Can use synonyms Example: Monsters Creepy, sinister, Hiding, lurking, stalking, Vampires, mummies, werewolves and more – Chasing, pouncing eating, Hungry, scary, Creatures TYPES OF POETRY ~ ACROSTIC ~ In an acrostic poem the first letter of each line, read down the page, spells the subject of the poem. Type of free verse poem. Does not usually rhyme. Example:
Loose brown parachute
Escaping And Floating on puffs of air. By Paul Paolilli TYPES OF POETRY ~ LIMERICK ~ A limerick is a funny poem of 5 lines. Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme. Lines 3 & 4 are shorter and rhyme. Line 5 refers to line 1. Limericks are a kind of nonsense poem. Example: There Seems to Be a Problem I really don’t know about Jim. When he comes to our farm for a swim, The fish as a rule, jump out of the pool. Is there something the matter with him? By John Ciardi THANK YOU SO MUCH
