BW: What is Poetry to you? Name 3 characteristics

1. BW: What is Poetry to you? Name 3 characteristics • Do you think you’ll like it? Why or why not?

2. Structure:organization • Stanzas: “paragraphs” • Lines: “rows” (not always sentences)

3. POETRY… can you feel it? -IMAGERY • word pictures • Sensory details, 5 senses: 1. See 2. Hear 3. Smell 4. Taste 5. Touch

4. Imagery Sometimes an image helps us imagine that we • hear a sound, • smell an odor, • feel a texture, • or even taste something.

5. Imagery Poets may use sensory details, elements that help you imagine how something looks, sounds, smells, feels, or tastes. What sensory details does the following excerpt contain? Out on the land White Moon shines.Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows,All silver to slow twisted shadowsFalling across the long road that runs from the house. from “Baby Face” by Carl Sandburg Out on the land White Moon shines.Shines and glimmers against gnarled shadows,All silver to slow twisted shadowsFalling across the long road that runs from the house. from “Baby Face” by Carl Sandburg [End of Section]

7. MORNING and eveningMaids heard the goblins cry:"Come buy our orchard fruits,Come buy, come buy:Apples and quinces,Lemons and oranges,Plump unpecked cherries-Melons and raspberries… Evening by eveningAmong the brookside rushes,Laura bowed her head to hear, Lizzie veiled her blushes:…."Lie close," Laura said,Pricking up her golden head:“We must not look at goblin men,We must not buy their fruits:Who knows upon what soil they fedTheir hungry thirsty roots?“ "Come buy," call the goblinsHobbling down the glen."O!” cried Lizzie, “Laura, Laura,You should not peep at goblin men."

8. Allusion… what are you alluding to? • reference to a well-known person, place, thing or event • drawn from history, geography, or religion, pop culture… • Who do you think you are, trying to fight the school bully? Superman? • Harriet Tubman was called the Moses of her time. • She had Aphrodite’s charm. • The stench of burning bodies filled the air.

10. Figurative Language • Simile -Comparing 2 unlike things using “like” or “as”. Ex: “He was as tall as the highest tree.” Ex: “Her beauty was like a sun setting over the beach.” • Metaphor-implied comparison between very different things w/o like or as. Can be direct or implied Ex. “Her mind is a calculator.” Ex. “He’s a tank, coach!”

11. Metaphors: X Is Y direct metaphor = directly compares two things by using a verb such as is. This computer is a dinosaur. The computer isn’t really a dinosaur, but it is old and out of date like one. =

12. Metaphors: X Is Y An implied metaphor implies or suggests a comparison between two things, rather than stating the comparison directly. Gabi stared at me with venomous eyes and hissed out her reply. Gabi stared at me with venomous eyes and hissed out her reply. Gabi is being compared to a snake, as these words imply. With what is Gabi being compared?

14. Personification • Giving human qualities to inanimate objects/animals. • EX: During the test, the clock laughed at me. • EX: Love smiled at me warmly and filled his heart with her soft voice.

15. Personification Given human hands and the ability to caress, the season of spring is personified. a type of metaphor, human qualities are given to something that is not human, such as an object, an animal, or even an idea. Spring caresses the earth with her warm, delicate hands. Spring caresses the earth with her warm, delicate hands.

17. RHYME • End:rhyming at the end of a line • Internal:2 words in the same line • Approximate:(Half, Slanted, Forced) Orange and porridge

18. End: • Internal: • Approximate:

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20. Where are the stressed and the unstressed? • "Go sad or sweet or riotous with beer“ • "Go SAD or SWEET or RI-o-TOUS with BEER"

21. Rhythm musical quality based on repetition. When you talk about the beat you hear when you read a poem, you are describing its rhythm.

22. -RHYTHM Meter • because poetry is so emotionally charged and intense, rhythm can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less stressed syllables. • Regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables that gives a predictable rhythm to a poem

24. Alliteration • The repetition of initial consonant sounds in neighboring words. Ex: -Sally searched for seashells on the seashore. -Betty bought a batch of butter.

25. Onomatopoeia • imitates the sound it represents. • Ex: woof, bang, clank, buzz, zap

26. Assonance • repetition of vowel sounds (not consonant sounds) in neighboring words. Ex: The cat in the hat sat down on the mat.

27. An exaggeration or overstatement. EX: • I feel as big as a house. • You’re killing me!

28. Dialect: Howdy, ya’ll! • a socially distinct variety of a language • differs from standard language • EX: Crikey! Look at that, mate!

29. The BATTLE: Tone vs. Mood • Tone refers to the attitude that the writing style implies • Tone can change throughout a poem • To find tone, imagine what ‘tone’ of voice you would use when reading the poem…would it be sad? Happy? Angry? Ex: Today, the rain refreshed the flowers Bringing new life to the world. Yesterday, the rain battered my windows. Shattering glass upon the flowers.

30. Mood ≠ Tone • The mood is the atmosphere or the meaning of the poem. Some examples include: • A feeling of love • A feeling of fear • An atmosphere of chaos • To find the mood, you should look for: • Which words the author uses • Symbolic and figurative language • The length and rhythm of each poetic line

31. TONE CAN HELP YOU IDENTIFY THE MOOD!!!

32. Does the mood of this picture match the music?