For Poets By Al Young From Dancing (1969)

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For PoetsBy Al YoungFrom Dancing (1969)

• Presented by Zach McCormick and Elizabeth
  Schmedeke

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Glencoe Literature

• This example of poetry is worth keeping because
• It symbolizes and stresses to poets to be heard
  and not hide from their work from the world.
• It is an example of a free-verse poem, which has
  no rhythm or rhyme.
• It contains consonance, assonance, parallelism,
  personification, imagery, motif, and hyperbole.

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Scansion Rhythm and Rhyme

• Example
• Stay beautiful
• But dont stay down underground too long
• Dont turn into a mole
• Or a worm
• Or a root
• Or a stone

A
1
2
B
3
C
D
4
5
E
6
F
-There is no real pattern. Thus it is free verse.
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Consonance

• Examples
• Knock out mountains
• Come on out into the sunlight

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Line 7
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Assonance

• Examples
• But dont stay down underground too long
• Dont forget to poke your head up

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Line 12
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Parallelism

• Examples
• Or a worm
• Or a root
• Or a stone

Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
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Personification

• Example
• Commune with snakes To commune with snakes
  means to talk with snakes. That is impossible.
• Be the very hero of birds Birds do not have a
  grasp of human culture, and thus do not have
  heroes.

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Line 11
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Hyperbole

• Example
• Dont turn into a mole You cannot really turn
  into a mole.
• Or a worm Or a worm
• Or a root Or a root
• Or a stone Or a stone

Line 3
Line 4
Line 5
Line 6
These are simply exaggerations, or hyperboles,
used to emphasize points in a piece of literature.
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Imagery

• Examples
• Come on out into the sunlight
• Breathe in trees
• Knock out mountains
• Stay beautiful

Line 7
Line 8
Line 9
Line 1
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Motif

• The motif in this has is based on nature.
• Examples
• Breath in trees
• Swim upstream
• Come on out into the sunlight
• Dont turn into a mole
• Knock out mountains

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Line 16
Line 7
Line 3
Line 9
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Why Do We Recommend this Poem To Be Kept?

• This poem should be kept because
• It has many literary and poetic devices.
• It has a clear theme that is relatively easy to
  understand.