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Title: Words / Form


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Words / Form
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Words
  • Poets are in love with words. Language is their
    tool, but it is a tool that fascinates and
    challenges them.
  • As the reader you have to be prepared to slow
    down and respond fully to a single word, taking
    in its full meaning.

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The Poets Word Choice
  • Poets are sticklers for the right word.
  • Poets have a keen ear for the emotional quality
    of words.
  • Poets have a keen ear for differences in tone.
  • Poets have a keen ear for the sound of words.
    (onomatopoeia, euphony, cacophony, assonance,
    dissonance)

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Authors Carefully Select Their Words
  • Connotation the emotional overtones and
    attitudes that words carry.
  • Denotation bare-fact meaning of a word.
  • Authors carefully use connotations and
    denotations of words to create the theme/meaning
    of the poem.

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Dialects
  • Poets may chose to have a certain manner of
    speaking in their poems so you are able to get a
    feel for the persona and meaning of the poem.

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Tips for looking at Words
  • Define your key term.
  • Show that you have read carefully for
    implications. You have gone through the poem line
    by line looking for key words.
  • Don not take words out of context
  • Work out a clear overall plan. What are you
    looking for in the words? (pattern, connotative
    language)

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Form Rhyme, Meter, Stanza
  • Poetry today moves between the poles of
    traditional form and the open form that became
    second nature to many modern poets.
  • Traditional poetry is shaped by features like
    rhyme, rhythm, and stanza.
  • Open form in varying degrees modifies or abandons
    these, allowing the poet to give each poem its
    own unique pattern and rhythm.

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Looking for form
  • To read with an alert eye and attentive ear, you
    need to respond to formal features like the
    following
  • 1. Poets exploit our delight in the echo effects
    of language.

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  • 2. Poets build on the natural rhythms of
    language. The drumbeat of the poem is known as
    meter.
  • 3. Poets appeal to our delight in recurrent
    patterns.

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Rhyme
  • Internal Rhyme - multiply the echo effect of
    rhyme within a line. All is seared with trade
    bleared, smeared with toil.
  • End Rhyme most rhymes are end rhyme. The use of
    rhyme at the ends of lines of poetry. (tap/clap)
  • Off Rhyme (slant rhyme) - rhymes that are close
    but not exact lap/shape, glorious/nefarious
  • Rhyme Scheme - the pattern of rhymes, esp. end
    rhymes, used in a piece of verse, usually
    indicated by letters

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Meter
  • Meter regularizes the natural rhythm of speech.
    It is a recurring beat over the poem.
  • A stress makes one syllable stand out.
  • Shakespeares plays are written in iambic
    pentameter.

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Stanza
  • A group of lines of verse forming one of the
    divisions of a poem or song it is usually made
    up of four or more lines and often has a regular
    pattern in the number of lines and the
    arrangement of meter and rhyme
  • Much traditional poetry is laid out in stanzas.

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Questions to ask regarding form
  • What use does the poem make of rhyme?
  • Does the poem set up a strong underlying beat, or
    meter?
  • Is the poem is divided into stanzas? How are the
    stanzas organized?
  • In a poem using open form, look for features that
    help give shape to the poem.
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