1 / 23

Piecing Together the Poetry Puzzle

Piecing Together the Poetry Puzzle. Important Poetry Terms. So……..You Think Poetry is Hard?. Try Calculus. Prefer the Poetry?. Poetry can be less puzzling if: You understand the terminology You have a reliable approach for analysis You read more of it. Form. Line

prue
Télécharger la présentation

Piecing Together the Poetry Puzzle

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Piecing Together the Poetry Puzzle Important Poetry Terms

  2. So……..You Think Poetry is Hard?

  3. Try Calculus

  4. Prefer the Poetry? • Poetry can be less puzzling if: • You understand the terminology • You have a reliable approach for analysis • You read more of it

  5. Form • Line • A single line of text in a poem • Not necessarily a sentence • Sometimes one sentence can span across several lines • Stanza • Series of lines grouped together • Couplet (2 lines) • Tercet (3 lines) • Quatrain (4 lines) • Quintet (5 lines) • Sestet (6 lines) • Octave (8 lines)

  6. Example Stanza =one sentence and five lines I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

  7. Lyric Poem • Very popular with Romantic Writers • 1st person account • Thoughts and feelings • Usually describes specific moment

  8. Sonnet • Specific lyric poem • Consists of 14 lines • Petrarchan • Octave and Sestet • Abba abba, cdecde or cdcdcd • Shakespearean • Three quatrains and a couplet • Iambic Pentameter • Abab, cdcd, efef, gg

  9. Excerpt from a Sonnet • Two households, both alike in dignity,In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.From forth the fatal loins of these two foesA pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;Whose misadventured piteous overthrowsDo with their death bury their parents' strife.

  10. Rhyme • Repetition of similar sounds • Most common is end rhyme • Occurs at the end of two of more lines • Rhyme scheme is noted with lower case letters • New letter=new sound

  11. What is the rhyme scheme? Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars. Those stars weren’t so big. They were really so small. You might think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.  “Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumiousBandersnatch!”

  12. Rhythm • Sound pattern in poetic language • Two parts • Type of foot • Number of feet • Foot= rhythmical unit • Usually 2 or 3 syllables • Stressed = strong or loud syllable • Unstressed= weak or quiet syllable

  13. Types of Feet • Iambic • Unstressed, Stressed • Trochaic • Stressed, Unstressed • Anapestic • Unstressed, Unstressed, Stressed • Dactylic • Stressed, Unstressed, Unstressed

  14. Number of Feet • Two feet = dimeter • Three feet= trimeter • Four feet= tetrameter • Five feet= pentameter • Six feet= hexameter

  15. Identify the Rhythm Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality.

  16. Identify the Rhythm He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.

  17. Identify the Rhythm Double, double toil and trouble;     Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 

  18. Special Terms • Blank Verse • Iambic Pentameter • No Rhyme • Shakespeare’s favorite • Free Verse • No rhythm • No rhyme

  19. Figurative Language • Simile • Comparison using like or as • Metaphor • Comparison of two things not using like or as • Usually more direct comparison • Calling the object something else • Personification • Giving humanlike qualities to an inanimate object

  20. So how do I approach a poem? • Read the poem once for understanding • Focus on the words • Read the poem again • This time look at the structure as well • Mark up the poem, if possible • If not, take notes separately

  21. Approach Continued • Meaning • Underline important words or phrases • Write questions near unfamiliar words or phrases • Answer Who, What, When, Where, Why • Who is the speaker? • What is the speaker talking about? • Look for figurative language

  22. Approach Continued • Form • Examine stanza and line length • Identify rhythm and rhyme • What does the poem look like? • Any interesting punctuation usage?

  23. Let’s Practice • The only way to get “good” at understanding poetry is to read poetry

More Related