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WHAT IS POETRY?

WHAT IS POETRY?. Why do we need poetry ?. Language is to communicate information Language is an instrument of persuasion Says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language Brings us a sense of life Brings us a perception of life Widens and sharpens our contact with existence

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WHAT IS POETRY?

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  1. WHAT IS POETRY?

  2. Why do weneedpoetry? • Language is to communicate information • Language is an instrument of persuasion • Says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language • Brings us a sense of life • Brings us a perception of life • Widens and sharpens our contact with existence • Concerns with experience

  3. SpecialQualities of Poetry • STRUCTURAL DEVICES • Illustration a vivid picture by which a poet may make an idea clear • Repetition aiming at special musical effects a poet wants us to pay attention to something • Contrast two completely opposite pictures side by side

  4. THE EAGLEAlfred, Lord Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  5. Repetition (Example) Water, water everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion. Thee for my recitative, Thee in the driving storm … Thee in thy panoply, … . . . Thy black cylindric body … Thy . . . . The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner (Coleridge) To a Locomotive in Winter (Whitman)

  6. SpecialQualities of Poetry 2. SOUND DEVICES • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia • Assonance • Rhyme • Rhythm

  7. Sound Devices Allitération: the repetition of the same sound at frequent intervals The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew The furrow followed free Day after day, day after day Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack . . . boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away

  8. Sound Devices • Onomatopoeia: occurs in words which imitate sounds and thus suggest the object described cuckoo buzz crash tick-tack hum swish jangle z .. z .. z ..

  9. Onomatopoeia (example) Siesta of a Hungarian Snake(Edwin Morgan) S szsz SZ sz SZ szZszsZszszs z

  10. Sound Devices • Assonance: occurs when a poet introduces imperfect rhymes wreck – rock grind – ground hole – road speak – break life – mile hole – bowl

  11. Sound Devices • Rhyme: occurs at line endings in poetry and consists of words which have the same sound. be – sea come – dumb first – burst night – sight fail – hail blew - flew • Rhythm: - any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound - related to: the beat of our heart the pulse of our blood the intake and outflow of air from lungs

  12. Rhythm Metre: the basic pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables • Trochaic: alternating stressed and unstressed syllables, beginning with a stressed syllable / / / / Minnehaha, Laughing Water. . . .

  13. Metre • Dactylic: alternating one stressed and two unstressed syllables, beginning with a stressed syllable / / Take her up tenderly, / / Lift her with care. . . .

  14. Metre • Iambic: alternating stressed an unstressed syllables, beginning with an unstressed syllable / / / / / That time of year thou may’st in me behold…

  15. Metre • Anapaestic: alternating one stressed and two unstressed syllables, beginning with two unstressed syllables / / / / The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold…

  16. Feet Feet: type of the line • The safest way to divide a line into feet is by counting the stressed syllables • Longer lines have more feet, shorter ones have less

  17. Feet The customary names for line lengths are: monometer one foot dimeter two feet trimeter three feet tetrameter four feet pentameter five feet hexameter six feet heptameter seven feet octameter eight feet

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