Poetry

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Poetry
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Introduction

• What comes to mind when you hear the word
  poetry?
• What is your attitude towards poetry?

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Rhyme and Rhyme Scheme

• A rhyme has the repetition of the same or similar
  sounds at the end of two or more words most often
  at the ends of lines.
• The pattern of rhymes in a poem. The rhyme scheme
  is indicated by a different letter of the
  alphabet for each new rhyme of the stanza.

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Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy
Evening

• Whose woods these are I think I know.His house
  is in the village thoughHe will not see me
  stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with
  snow.My little horse must think it queerTo
  stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods
  and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the
  year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask
  if there is some mistake.The only other sound's
  the sweepOf easy wind and downy flake.The
  woods are lovely, dark and deep.But I have
  promises to keep,And miles to go before I
  sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.

For Monday Write an 8-line poem using a rhyme
scheme.
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Emily Dickinson There Is No Frigate Like a Book

• Simile Comparison of 2 unlike things using
  like or as.
• Metaphor comparison of 2 unlike things directly.
  (Saying one thing IS another.)
• What are the two similes in this poem?
• What is the one metaphor?

• There is no frigate like a book  
• To take us lands away,
• Nor any coursers like a page  
• Of prancing poetry.  
• This traverse may the poorest take
• Without oppress of toll
• How frugal is the chariot  
• That bears a human soul!

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Poetry using Simile and Metaphor

• Write an 8 line poem using at least 2 similes
  and/or metaphors.

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• Paul Laurence Dunbar
• Sympathy
• I KNOW what the caged bird feels, alas!
• When the sun is bright on the upland slopes
• When the wind stirs soft through the springing
  grass,
• And the river flows like a stream of glass When
  the first bird sings and the first bud opes,
• And the faint perfume from its chalice steals
• I know what the caged bird feels!
• I know why the caged bird beats his wing Till
  its blood is red on the cruel bars
• For he must fly back to his perch and cling
• When he fain would be on the bough a-swing And
  a pain still throbs in the old, old scars
• And they pulse again with a keener sting
• I know why he beats his wing!
• I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his
  wing is bruised and his bosom sore,
• When he beats his bars and he would be free
• It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer
  that he sends from his heart's deep core,

• Langston Hughes
• Mother to Son
• Well, son, I'll tell you
• Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
• It's had tacks in it,
• And splinters,
• And boards torn up,
• And places with no carpet on the floor
• Bare.
• But all the time
• I'se been a-climbin' on,
• And reachin' landin's,
• And turnin' corners,
• And sometimes goin' in the dark
• Where there ain't been no light.
• So boy, don't you turn back.
• Don't you set down on the steps
• Cause you finds it's kinder hard.

1. Which poem uses a rhyme scheme. What is the
   pattern of rhyme?
2. What is the metaphor in each of the poems?
3. Which poem do you like best? Why?