Poetry

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Poetry
Colleen Tolle Communications Wayzata High School
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• 1. Intro to Poetry
• 2. Glossary of terms
• 3. Sounds of poetry
• A. Rhythm
• - feet
• - meter
• B. Lineage and The Courage that My Mother
  Had
• C. Song of the Open Road and The Road Not
  Taken
• 4. Poetry Explication
• A. Notes
• B. Wm Blake Chronology.
• C. The Tyger and The Lamb
• D. The Fountain

5. Poetry Analysis and example essay A.
Notes B. Counting the Beats 6. Forms of Poetry
A. Ballad - Bonny Barbara Allan B.
Sonnet - Petrarch - Shakespeare 7. Poetry
examples A. Incident in a Rose Garden B. The
Seven Ages of Man 8. Poetry Unit Test
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• Introductory Example from a poem by Eugene Field
• THE GINGHAM DOG AND THE CALICO CAT SIDE BY SIDE
  ON THE TABLE SAT.
• the GINGham DOG and the CAlico CAT
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• SIDE by SIDE on the TAble SAT

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Foot

• the basic unit of measurement for counting
  accents in poetry.
• Each foot contains only 2 or 3 syllables.

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Types of Feet

• Iambic foot _____ syllables.
• Emphasis on ______.
• Ex) suggest
• Ex)) pretend
• Ex))) Renee
• NOUN Iamb

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Types of Feet, continued
2. Trochaic foot _____ syllables. Emphasis on
_____. Ex) problem Ex)) rather Ex)))
Robert NOUN Trochee
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Types of Feet, continued
3. Anapestic foot _____ syllables. Emphasis on
______. Ex) interrupt Ex)) understand Ex)))
apprehend NOUN Anapest
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Types of Feet, continued
4. Dactylic foot _____ syllables. Emphasis on
______. Ex) murmuring Ex)) ruminate Ex)))
Henderson NOUN Dactyl
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Types of Feet, continued
5. Spondaic foot ______ syllables. Emphasis on
______. Ex) Seagull Ex)) Penguin NOUN Spondee
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Types of Feet, continued
6. Pyrrhic foot ____ syllables. Emphasis on
______. Ex) in the Ex)) as he NOUN Pyrrh
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Types of Feet, continued
7. Amphibrach foot _____ syllables. Emphasis on
______. Ex) whatever Ex)) ambitious NOUN
Amphibrach
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Types of Feet, continued
8. Amphimacer foot _____ syllables. Emphasis on
_______. Ex) twenty-two Ex)) underfed NOUN
Amphimacer
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Meter Is the number of feet in a line of
poetry. Infinite number of feet possible for a
line of poetry, but traditionally stops at eight.
1. monometer a line of poetry with only one
foot
2. dimeter a line with two feet
3. trimeter a line with three feet
4. tetrameter a line with four feet
5. pentameter a line with five feet
(Shakespeare's favorite)
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Meter cont.
6. Hexameter a line with six feet (popular in
French poetry) 7. Heptameter a line with seven
feet 8. Octameter a line with eight feet
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Monometer
Thus I Pass by And die. Robert Herrick
Summers Blend their Colors Rarely. Jessie
Jones
When the dark Of a spring Interrupts, There
is one Who will serve. Jessie Jones
Note words like interrupts may reflect
different feet depending on context.
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Dimeter
Money Workers earn it. Spendthrifts burn
it.Bankers lend it.Women spend it.Forgers fake
it.Taxes take it.Dying leave it.Heirs receive
it. Thrifty save it. Misers crave it. Robbers
seize it. Rich increase it. Gamblers lose it.
I could use it. Richard Armour
Somersaults acrobats Fly in their leotards Over
the murmuring Summertime crowds. Unknown
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Trimeter
The idle life I lead Is like a pleasant
sleep, Wherein I rest and heed The dreams that
by me sweep. Robert Bridges
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Tetrameter

• The hills, the meadows, and the lakes,
• Enchant not for their own sweet sakes.
• They cannot know, they cannot care
• To know that they are thought so fair.
• Unknown
• The grave's a fine and quiet place,
• But none I think do there embrace.
• Andrew Marvell

NOTE Tetrameter was used widely in the writing
of plays in England before writers like
Christopher Marlowe and Shakespeare made iambic
pentameter the standard meter in theater.
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Pentameter
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed. What
oft was thought, but ne'er so well
expressed. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly
read, With loads of learned lumber in his
head. Alexander Pope
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Hexameter

• From "The Eve of St. Agnes"
• To think how they may ache in icy hoods and
  mails.
• John Keats

NOTE Keats wrote "The Eve of St. Agnes" using
Spenserian stanzas. Each stanza ends with a line
in hexameter. The stanza is called "Spenserian"
because it was invented by Edmund Spenser in the
16th century for his poem "The Faerie Queene."
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Heptameter
From Casey at the Bat It looked extremely
rocky for the Mudville nine that day. The score
stood four to six with but an inning left to
play. And then when Cooney died at first, and
Barrows did the same, A pall-like silence fell
upon the patrons of the game. Ernest Lawrence
Thayer
NOTE This meter was very popular in early 16th
century England and remains usually comic in
tone.
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Octameter
From The Raven Once upon a midnight dreary
while I pondered weak and weary Over many a
quaint and curious volume of forgotten
lore, While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly
there came a tapping As of someone gently
rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Edgar
Allen Poe
NOTE The internal rhyme at the caesura (a
natural pause or break) in lines three and four.
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Poetry Explicationthe study of poetry

• Step I. Examine the situation of the poem.
• Story
• Emotion or mood
• Speaker
• Tone

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Poetry Explicationthe study of poetry

• Step II. Examine the structure of the poem.
• Form of poem
• Movement of images and ideaschronological,
  cause/effect, free association, circular
• Syntax of sentences, parts of speech
• Punctuation of linesend-stopped line or
  enjambment
• Title of poem

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Poetry Explicationthe study of poetry

• Step III. Examine the language of the poem.
• Diction
• Connotations
• Allusions
• Imagery
• Figurative language

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Poetry Explicationthe study of poetry

• Step IV. Examine the sound of the poem.
• Rhyme schemeir/regular rhyme, in/formal rhyme
  scheme, relation to mood
• Rhythm/Meter and its tonal effect
• Poetic devices for soundalliteration, assonance,
  consonance

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Poetry Analysisthe essay

• Paragraph I.
• (Not a formal introductory paragraph)
• Describe the conflicts in the poem and the
  dramatic situationwho, what when, where, why.
• This poem dramatizes the conflict between . . .
  

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Poetry Analysisthe essay

• Paragraph II
• Expand the discussion of the conflict.
• Explain the poem, line by line, in terms of the
  poems form, rhetoric, syntax, and vocabulary.
• Paragraph III
• Incorporate important elements of rhyme, rhythm,
  and meter.

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Poetry Analysisthe essay

• Paragraph Final
• No formal concluding paragraph
• Do not simply restate ideas from introduction.
• Focus on sound effects or visual patterns from
  poem to reinforce conflict.
• Points to consider
• Refer to the speaking voice in the poem as the
  speaker or the poet, not by the poets name.
• Use present tense verbs throughout the analysis.
  The poem continues to exist even if the poet does
  not!

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Instructions Poetry Rhythm Quiz

• Write down Foot/Meter Bank. (no symbols)
• Write down each line of poetry.
• Scan each line of poetry. (symbols dividers)
• At end of each line of poetry, write the
  corresponding foot and meter.

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Poetry Rhythm Quiz Bank Feet Meters

• Iambic
• Trochaic
• Anapestic
• Dactylic
• Spondaic
• Pyrrhic
• Amphibrach
• Amphimacer

• Monometer
• Dimeter
• Trimeter
• Tetrameter
• Pentameter
• Hexameter
• Heptameter
• Octameter

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QUIZ 1 Poetry Rhythm

• 1. I saw eternity the other night.
• 2. When silent I so many thousand, thousand
  years.
• 3. To fight aloud is very brave
• 4. Death, be not proud, though some have callèd
  thee.

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Quiz 2 Poetry Rhythm

• 1. Play, Phoebus, on thy lute, And we will all
  sit mute.
• 2. In Xanadu, did Kubla-Khan A stately
  pleasure-dome decree
• 3. She walks in beauty, like the night Of
  cloudless climes and starry skies.

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Quiz 3 Poetry Rhythm

• Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art
  more lovely and more temperate. Sonnet 18,
  William Shakespeare
• Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly
  stopped for me. Because I Could Not Stop for
  Death, Emily Dickinson
• Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of
  the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame
  thy fearful symmetry? Tyger! Tyger!, William
  Blake
• But I have promises to keep,And miles to go
  before I sleep Stopping By Woods On A Snowy
  Evening, Robert Frost