POETRY

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POETRY
POIEO
To make, to create
SIMPLE MUSIC
ORAL FORM
DANCE
Natural disasters, births and deaths, brave
actions, dangerous enemies, battles, love, war,
MEANINGFUL AND MEMORABLE EVENTS
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POETRY
FORM (epic poem, mock heroic poem, ballad,
sonnet, blank verse, limerick, elegy, epigram,
ode) RHYTHM (METER, RHYME) SOUND OF WORDS
alliteration (repetition of the initial
consonant sound in two or more words in a line or
consecutive lines), assonance (repetition of
middle vowel sound between different consonant
sounds), consonance ( close repetition of
identical consonant sounds after differing vowel
sounds) LOGICAL STRUCTURE character(s) and
relative qualities (adjectives) actions(verbs)
object (s) of actions the way actions occur
(adverbs)
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POETRY
WRITTEN FORM
poetic conventions
Words arranged into LINES Lines grouped into
STANZAS Lines usually begin with a CAPITOL
LETTER Lines can be END-STOPPED or RUN-ON
(enjambment) Some lines may be INDENTED
LAYOUT FORM
(epic poem, mock heroic poem, ballad, sonnet,
blank verse, limerick, ode, elegy, epigram,)
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SOUND
POETRY
Lines RHYME when their last syllables make the
same sound RHYME is determined by sound and not
by spelling STRESSED AND UNSTRESSED SILLABLES
(RHYTHM) can alternate in a line in several
combinations called by different names IAMB
unstressedstress ( ? --) FOOT unit of
stressed and unstressed syllables IAMBIC VERSE
lines made up predominantly of iambs IAMBIC
PENTAMETERS five iambic feet BLANK(not rhyming)
VERSE iambic pentameter tat doesnt rhyme. It is
very flexible and can come very close to everyday
speech Shakespeare-
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POETRY

• Lines RHYME when their last syllables make the
  same sound
• RHYME is determined by sound and not by spelling
• Perfect RHYME considering two words, the sound
  of the last stressed vowel and all succeeding
  sounds are identical
• RHYME SCHEME musical designs within a poem AA
  BB
• SOUND PATTERNS
• Alliteration repetition of the initial sound in
  two or more words in a line or consecutive lines
• Assonancethe repetition of the middle vowel
  sounds between different consonant sounds
• Consonance close repetition of identical
  consonant sounds after differing vowel sounds

SOUND

• SOUND PATTERNS
• Give unity to the poem by binding lines and words
  together
• Are an aid to memorizing
• Make the poem pleasant to listen to
• Emphasise key words
• Reinforce an idea
• Intensify the poems mood

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EDMUND SPENSER SONNET LXXV
a b a b b c b c c e c e f f
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But
came the waves and washed it away Again I wrote
it with a second hand, but came the tide, and
made my pains his prey. Vain man, said she, that
does in vain essay, a mortal thing so to
immortalise, for I myself shall like to this
decay, and eek my name be wiped out likewise. Not
so (quoth I) let baser things devise to die in
dust, but you shall live by fame my verse your
virtues rare shall eternise, and in the heavens
write your glorious name. Where whenas death
shall all the world subdue, our love shall live
and later life renew.
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EDMUND SPENSER SONNET LXXV
ONE OF MANS DREAMS IS BEING IMMORTAL
NATURE MAKES IMMORTALITY IMPOSSIBLE
2-THE WAVES
1- THE POET
writes
Wash it away
His ladys name
Writes again (with a new handwriting)
3-THE POET
On the
Is the
4-THE TIDE
sand
makes his prey of the
6-THE POET
his
Poets pain
dialogue
7- VERSES
5-THE LADY
will write
shall eternise
Reproaches
says that
His ladys Glorious name
knows she cant oppose to the
The poet and his essay are vain
In
His ladys rare virtues
Heaven
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EDMUND SPENSER SONNET LXXV
ONE OF MANS DREAMS IS BEING IMMORTAL
NATURE MAKES IMMORTALITY IMPOSSIBLE
Continuous movement- Force of nature
2-THE WAVES
1- THE POET
writes
Poetry is the only means to immortality
Wash it away
His ladys name
Writes again (with a new handwriting)
3-THE POET is determined
On the
Is the
Tries to make of his love a lasting thing
4-THE TIDE
Nature is stronger than man
sand
makes his prey of the
Handy and easy to shape BUT Unstable,
Changeable, Unreliable

• Maybe because
• she cant share his point of view
• she underestimates him.

6-THE POET (determined and confident)
his
Poets pain
dialogue
7- VERSES
makes the poet suffer
5-THE LADY
will write
sensible (rational) and pragmatic
shall eternise
Reproaches
Thinks that
His ladys Glorious name
knows she cant oppose to the

• faithful (in his value as poet or in ?)
• virtuous
• be more detached from earth

The poet and his essay are vain
Has to be
In
His ladys rare virtues
Heaven
unearthly reserved only to a few of virtuous
and faithful people
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POETRY
FORM (epic poem, mock heroic poem, ballad,
sonnet, blank verse, limerick, elegy,
epigram,) RHYTHM (METER, RHYME) SOUND OF WORDS
alliteration (repetition of the initial
consonant sound in two or more words in a line or
consecutive lines), assonance (repetition of
middle vowel sound between different consonant
sounds), consonance ( close repetition of
identical consonant sounds after differing vowel
sounds) LOGICAL STRUCTURE character(s) and
relative qualities (adjectives) actions(verbs)
object (s) of actions the way actions occur
(adverbs) CHOICE OF WORDS (linguistic register,
semantic field, denotative/connotative language,
anaphor, anadiplosis, ..) WORD ORDER (enjambment,
emphatic forms) FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE (figures of
speech simile, metaphor, conceit, synecdoche(a
part for the whole), oxymoron, hyperbaton
(inversion), anaphor, anadiplosis,epanadiplosis)
PERSONIFICATION SYMBOLISM IRONY -ALLUSION
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LANGUAGE
CHOICE OF WORDS linguistic register legal,
scientific, religious semantic field lexical
items that denote a set of concepts included into
a label concept (courtly love gentle, soft,
sweet) (religious faith sacred,
laity..) connotative language what the word
suggests, the associations the word induces in
the reader (fair)
WORD ORDER emphatic forms do/doesaffirmative
form word inversion (hyperbaton (inversion)
unlike word order respect to syntactic
rules enjambment run on lines
FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
figures of speech make the scene more vivid,
make the meaning clearer, intensify the emotional
impact, compress a lot of meaning into a few
words
Simile explicit comparison (like, and also, as,
as if, than, resembles)
Metaphor an implied comparison that suggests
associations that arouse emotions packs meaning
in one or two words introduces a concrete item
the reader is familiar with and uses it to convey
abstract ideas, establish the picture they
present at once
Conceit an extremely original and unexpected
metaphor
Symbol a concrete item (object, person, animal,
place, action) which represents an idea or a
feeling
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William Shakespeare Sonnet XVIII
Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art
more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do
shake the darling buds of May, And summers lease
hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the
eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold
complexion dimmed, And every fair from fair some
time declines, By chance or natures changing
course untrimmed But thy eternal summer shall
not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou
owst, Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his
shade When in eternal lines to time thou
growst. So long as men can breathe or eyes can
see, So long lives this, and this gives life to
thee.