Poetry

Mrs. Dean
Mountaineers
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What is poetry?
What do you know
about it?
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What is poetry?
What do you know
about it?
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What is poetry?
What do you know
about it?
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Poetry words you will learn:

simile
alliteration
rhyme
scheme
others..
mood
tone
There are many kinds of poems.
One kind of poetry we will study is the haiku.
A haiku is a Japanese poem written in three
lines. The total number of syllables in the
poem is 17. Usually haiku have a pattern of :
Line 1= 5 syllables
Line 2= 7 syllables
Line 3= 5 syllables
Bouncing pouncing fly
furry kittens hard at play
stalking their shadows.

Haiku rules:
A haiku must be about something in
nature.
Haiku are not about people.
Haiku can not be written in first person
point of view.

Can you haiku?
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1
Lets write a haiku about this picture
Dense fog is lurking
covering very tall trees
Its mysterious
2
Lets write a haiku about this picture.
It smells great all day
It is very beautiful
Orange petals glow
3
Lets write a haiku about this picture.
Shimmering raindrops
Glistening on a green leaf
Soon to disappear
Crawling up a web
Thread by thread going upwards
Following instincts
Vibrant colors flash
Summer has fallen like leaves
Winter now lurks near
Fiery colors
Different shades of beauty
Briefly living life

Bees are buzzing by
Astonishing bright colors
Daisies nod their heads

End of Haiku
notes/practice
With examples, of course
Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of the
beginning consonant sound within a
line in a poem.

Heres an example
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would
Not Take The Garbage Out
Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take
the garbage out!
She'd scour the pots and scrape the pans,
Candy the yams and spice the hams,
And though her daddy would scream and
shout,
She simply would not take the garbage
out.
And so it piled up to the ceilings:
Coffee grounds, potato peelings,
Brown bananas, rotten peas,
Chunks of sour cottage cheese.
It filled the can, it covered the floor,
It cracked the window and blocked the
door

With bacon rinds and chicken bones,
Drippy ends of ice cream cones,
Prune pits, peach pits, orange peel,
Gloppy glumps of cold oatmeal,
Pizza crusts and withered greens,
Soggy beans and tangerines,
Crusts of black burned buttered toast,
Gristly bits of beefy roasts...

The garbage rolled on down the hall,
It raised the roof, it broke the wall...
Greasy napkins, cookie crumbs,
Globs of gooey bubble gum,
Cellophane from green baloney,
Rubbery blubbery macaroni,
Peanut butter, caked and dry,
Curdled milk and crusts of pie,
Moldy melons, dried-up mustard,
Eggshells mixed with lemon custard,
Cold french fries and rancid meat,
Yellow lumps of Cream of Wheat.

At last the garbage reached so high
That finally it touched the sky.
And all the neighbors moved away,
And none of her friends would come to play.
And finally Sarah Cynthia Stout said,
"OK, I'll take the garbage out!"
But then, of course, it was too late...
The garbage reached across the state,
From New York to the Golden Gate.
And there, in the garbage she did hate,
Poor Sarah met an awful fate,
That I cannot right now relate
Because the hour is much too late.
But children, remember Sarah Stout
And always take the garbage out!

-Shel Silverstein

Where else do you see alliteration?
Now you try it!
Using the newspapers, find and
cut out words to create a poem.
This poem must have alliteration.
Glue your poem to a sheet of
colored paper. You may work in
small groups (no more than 4) or
alone.
Onomatopoeia
An onomatopoeia is a type of
word that makes the sound it is
describing.
Match these sentences to the
correct onomatopoeia.
A plate being dropped
on the floor.
A balloon being burst.
A gun being shot.
Someone eating
crisps.
A light being switched
on.
A fierce dog.
A small bell being rung.
Tinkle
Bang
Smash
Growl
Pop
Crunch
Click

Comic books
and graphic
novels are
some of the
best places to
find
onomatopoeia.
Poetry is
another great
place.

Can you find the onomatopoeia in the poem?
Onomatopoeia
Eve Merriam

The rusty spigot
sputters,
utters
a splutter,
spatters a smattering of drops,
gashes wider;
slash,
splatters,
scatters,
spurts,
finally stops sputtering
and plash!
gushes rushes splashes
clear water dashes.
Narrative Poetry
Narrative poetry is poetry that tells a story.
It can be a rhyming poem or not.
It is usually long and written in stanzas.
It contains all the elements of narrative writing
Characters
Plot
Sequence
Conflict
In addition, it also contains at least some elements of poetry
Figurative language (similes, metaphors)
Personification
Imagery
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
repetition
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes

(The poem can also be found
in your textbook and in your
workbook)
thief
Highwayman
rogue
scoundrel
One who
robs others
on the
highway or
road

The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty
trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy
seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple
moor,
And the highwayman came riding-
Riding-riding-
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door

He'd a French cocked-hat on his
forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches
of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle: his
boots were up to the thigh.
And he rode with a jeweled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the
jeweled sky.

Over the cobbles he clattered and
clashed in the dark inn-yard,
He tapped with his whip on the
shutters, but all was locked and
barred;
He whistled a tune to the window,
and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed
daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into
her long black hair.
And dark in the dark old inn-yard a
stable-wicket creaked
Where Tim the ostler listened; his
face was white and peaked;
His eyes were hollows of madness,
his hair like moldy hay,
But he loved the landlord's
daughter,
The landlord's red-lipped daughter,
Dumb as a dog he listened, and he
heard the robber say--

One kiss, my bonny sweetheart,
I'm after a prize tonight,
But I shall be back with the yellow
gold before the morning light;
Yet, if they press me sharply, and
harry me through the day,
Then look for me by moonlight,
Watch for me by moonlight,
I'll come to thee by moonlight,
though hell should bar the way."
He rose upright in the stirrups; he scarce could reach
her hand,
But she loosened her hair in the casement. His face
burnt like a brand
As the black cascade of perfume came tumbling over
his breast;
And he kissed its waves in the moonlight,
(Oh, sweet black waves in the moonlight!)
Then he tugged at his rein in the moonlight, and
galloped away to the West.
He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;
And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon,
When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,
A red-coat troop came marching--
Marching--marching--
King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

They said no word to the landlord, they
drank his ale instead,
But they gagged his daughter and
bound her to the foot of her narrow bed;
Two of them knelt at her casement, with
muskets at their side.
There was death at every window;
And hell at one dark window;
For Bess could see, through her
casement, the road that he would ride.

They had tied her up to attention, with
many a sniggering jest.
They had bound a musket beside her,
with the barrel beneath her breast.
"Now keep good watch!" and they
kissed her. She heard the doomed man
say--
Look for me by moonlight;
Watch for me by moonlight;
I'll come to thee by moonlight, though
hell should bar the way!
She twisted her hands behind her; but all
the knots held good.
She writhed her hands till her fingers
were wet with sweat or blood.
They stretched and strained in the
darkness, and the hours crawled by like
years,
Till, now, on the stroke of midnight,
Cold, on the stroke of midnight,
The tip of one finger touched it! The
trigger at least was hers!
The tip of one finger touched it. She strove no more for the
rest.
Up, she stood up to attention, with the muzzle beneath her
breast.
She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again;
For the road lay bare in the moonlight;
Blank and bare in the moonlight;
And the blood of her veins, in the moonlight, throbbed to her
love's refrain.

Tlot-tlot; tlot-tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-
hoofs ringing clear;
Tlot-tlot, tlot-tlot, in the distance? Were they
deaf that they did not hear?
Down the ribbon of moonlight, over the brow of
the hill,
The highwayman came riding,
Riding, riding!
The red-coats looked to their priming! She
stood up, straight and still!


Tlot-tlot, in the frosty silence! Tlot-tlot, in the
echoing night!
Nearer he came and nearer! Her face was
like a light!
Her eyes grew wide for a moment; she drew
one last deep breath,
Then her finger moved in the moonlight,
Her musket shattered the moonlight,
Shattered her breast in the moonlight and
warned him--with her death.
He turned; he spurred to the west; he
did not know who stood
Bowed, with her head o'er the
musket, drenched with her own red
blood.
Not till the dawn he heard it, his face
grew gray to hear
How Bess, the landlord's daughter,
The landlord's black-eyed daughter,
Had watched for her love in the
moonlight, and died in the darkness
there.

Back, he spurred like a madman,
shouting a curse to the sky,
With the white road smoking behind
him and his rapier brandished high!
Blood-red were his spurs in the golden
noon; wine-red was his velvet coat,
When they shot him down on the
highway,
Down like a dog on the highway,
And he lay in his blood on the
highway, with the bunch of lace at his
throat.

And still of a winter's night, they say, when the wind is in
the trees,
When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy
seas,
When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple
moor,
A highwayman comes riding--
Riding--riding--
A highwayman comes riding, up to the old inn-door.
Over the cobbles he clatters and
clangs in the dark inn-yard;
He taps with his whip on the
shutters, but all is locked and
barred;
He whistles a tune to the window,
and who should be waiting there
But the landlord's black-eyed
daughter,
Bess, the landlord's daughter,
Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her
long black hair.
The Highwayman is a narrative poem because it
contains all the elements of narrative writing.

Who are the main characters?


Can you give a three sentence plot summary?


Trace the sequence of events.


What was the conflict in the poem? Was there more
than one?
In addition, it also contains at least some elements of
poetry. Can you find the following?
Similes (the comparing of two things using like or as)

Metaphors (the comparing of two things without like or as)

Personification (giving human qualities to nonhuman things)

Imagery (the use of vivid language to create a mental image)

Alliteration (the repetition of the beginning consonant)

Onomatopoeia (words that sound like what they describe)

Repetition (repeating of words or phrases within a poem)
Another Narrative Poem

Example: The Charge of the Light Brigade
(featured in the movie The Blind Side)
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldiers knew
Some one had blunder'd:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.


Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre-stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.

Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.

When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wonder'd.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Activity: Elements of
Poetry Foldable
Using the yellow paper, you will create a
foldable that will help you to study these
important terms!
1. Fold the paper in half length-wise.
2. Fold each of the wings in half length-
wise.
3. Label your various terms on the outside
and your definitions and examples on the
inside.
Terms for your foldable:
Rhyme
Rhythm
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Internal rhyme
End rhyme
Slant rhyme
Hyperbole
Speaker
oxymoron
And many, many more!!!

Allusion
Alliteration
Consonance
Assonance
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Imagery
Mood/tone
All poetry types in packet
Stanza
Couplet





Lyric Poetry
A short poem
Usually written in first person point of view
Expresses an emotion or an idea or
describes a scene
Do not tell a story and are often musical
(Some of the poems we read will be
lyrics.)

You Are A New Day
Activity: Listen to a
song written by
John David,
performed by the
Kings Singers
Treat the lyrics of
this song as your
would any poem...
Refer to your
handout of the lyrics
for your questions.
You Are A New Day
1. Who is the speaker?
2. Who is the audience or person addressed?
3. What is the setting or occasion?
4. Explain the significance of the title and the meanings
of any unfamiliar words.
5. Read the poem again and then paraphrase it in the
margins.
6. Identify any figurative uses of language and their
effect.
7. Explain the poem's subject and theme and connect
the idea to another work we have discussed this school
year.
More on Lyric Poetry
Poetry in which the
speaker reveals personal
thoughts and feelings.

Comes from the Greek
word lyrikos, a short
poem sung to the music
of the lyre, a small harp-
like instrument.

I Wandered Lonely
as a Cloud
Wordsworth describes
his memorys ability to
change his vacant or
pensive mood to
pleasure (ll. 20-24).
This is considered the main
idea of the poem.
He feels the seemingly
trivial moment brought him
great and unexpected
wealth (l. 18).

Examples of Lyric Poetry
found in Prentice Hall TB
Harlem Night Song by Langston Hughes
(828)
Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind by William
Shakespeare (829)
love is a place by E.E. Cummings (830)
The Freedom of the Moon by Robert
Frost (831)
Ballad Poetry
A ballad is a story poem with a strong rhyme and rhythm.
Ballads are traditionally songs, or at least song-like. The
classic ballad stanza has 4 lines, with the lines
alternating between eight syllables and six syllables.
In each line, every other syllable is emphasized,
creating that sing-song da-DUM da-DUM da-DUM da-
DUM rhythm that is so catchy. The second and fourth
lines rhyme, but the first and third don't have to. The
resulting stanza could be like this one from the
Smithsonian:


Smithsonian Example:
A ballad stanza in a poem
has lines as long as these.
In measuring the lines we find
we get both fours and threes.


God prosper long our noble king,
Our liffes and saftyes all!
A woefull hunting once there did
In Chevy Chase befall..
The brain is deeper than the sea,
For, hold them, blue to blue,
The one the other will absorb
As sponges, buckets do.
From Emily Dickenson:
Know this one???
Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost, but now Im found,
Was blind, but now I see.
A Bal Lad Stan Za In A Poem
Has Lines As Long As these
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In Mea Sur Ing The Lines
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We Find
We Get Both Fours And three
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Epic Poems
Casey at the Bat
From the benches, black with people, there arose a muffled roar,
Like the beating of the storm-waves on some stern and distant shore.
"Kill him! Kill the umpire!" shouted someone in the stand,
And it's likely they'd have killed him had not Casey raised his hand.

Page 650 in Holt Textbook
Mock epic poem
Ode Warm Up Activity
What would you like to celebrate in your
life? it could be a person, place, or thing.
(animal, food, flowers, machines, laughter,
etc)
Make a list of at least 5 subjects worthy of
celebration in your life.
Pick one that's your favorite, and explain
why.
Ode: Basic Information
An ode is a poem that is written for an occasion
or on a particular subject. They are usually
dignified and more serious as a form than other
forms of poetry. Unfortunately, today's society
has distinctly less respect for propriety, morality,
and dignity. Modern odes include sarcastic
poems about various subjects, including velcro
and vegetables. There are several versions and
differing opinions on what the rhyme form for an
ode should be.
-thinkquest
Ode Example:
Ode to Thanks by Pablo Neruda
Page 657-658

SONNETS!!
Part 1: Lets look at a
modern version of the
Shakespearean
sonnet....
Example: What My
Lips Have Kissed,
And Where And
Why," a modern
sonnet by Edna St.
Vincent Millay
Pre-Reading
questions:
Have you ever loved
and lost? How do you
feel about the
possibility of loving
again after a failed
relationship?
What my lips have kissed, and
where, and why...
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply;
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands a lonely tree,
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one,
Yet know its boughs more silent than before:
I cannot say what loves have come and gone;
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more.
Okay, whats next?
Now, we need to read it
aloud...
What is the tone of the
poem? Is Millay wistful,
revengeful, coy or angry?
Which words and images
support your opinions
about the writers state of
mind?
Can you relate to a poem
in which the poet seems
to be older than they are
and thinking back to a
time when she had
former loves?

Sonnet Structure
Basic Information:
A Shakespearean, or English, sonnet consists of
14 lines, each line containing ten syllables and
written in iambic pentameter, in which a pattern
of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed
syllable is repeated five times.
The rhyme scheme in a Shakespearean sonnet
is a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g; the last two lines
are a rhyming couplet.

Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

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Sonnet 116 is about love in its most ideal form. It is praising the glories
of lovers who have come to each other freely, and enter into a
relationship based on trust and understanding.
The first four lines reveal the poet's pleasure in love that is constant and
strong, and will not "alter when it alteration finds." The following lines
proclaim that true love is indeed an "ever-fix'd mark" which will survive
any crisis.
In lines 7-8, the poet claims that we may be able to measure love to
some degree, but this does not mean we fully understand it. Love's
actual worth cannot be known it remains a mystery.
The remaining lines of the third quatrain (9-12), reaffirm the perfect
nature of love that is unshakeable throughout time and remains so "ev'n
to the edge of doom", or death.
In the final couplet, the poet declares that, if he is mistaken about the
constant, unmovable nature of perfect love, then he must take back all
his writings on love, truth, and faith. Moreover, he adds that, if he has in
fact judged love inappropriately, no man has ever really loved, in the
ideal sense that the poet professes.
Genres of Poetry :

Ballad: poem that tells a story like a folktale or legend;
often has a chorus and reads most like a song.
Epic Poem: Long poem that tells the story of a hero;
most Greek myths were told as epic poems.
Free Verse: Poem that has no set meter, rhyme scheme,
or governing structure.
Haiku: Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed
lines of five, seven, and five syllables, often reflects
themes of nature.
Limerick: Light, humorous poem with the rhyme scheme
AABBA.
Nonsense Poem: Poem whose purpose is to entertain,
often on humorous topic; often utilizes rhyme and
rhythm.
Poetry Terms
Couplet: A pair of lines of the same length, often
rhyming, forming a complete thought.
Meter: The arrangement of a line of poetry by its number
of syllables and pattern of stressed and unstressed
syllables (foundation of rhythm).
Quatrain: Stanza/poem of four lines.
Rhyme: Same or similar sounds at the ends of words.
Rhyme scheme: Pattern of rhyme in a poem.
Stanza: Method of organizing like ideas in a poem;
similar to a paragraph in a composition.