Thursday, June 2, 2011

Rhythm


 Rhythm
Definition: Something that has a beat when reading a poem. A movement.


Example : 
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
Significance: 
Rhythm is important, because it creates the flows in the poem. With stressed and unstressed syllables, the reader would be found the interesting in the poem.
 

Interpretation


Interpretation
Definition: An analysis and explanation of the meaning of a work of art such as poems, or a piece of literature.


Example: 
You're a dependable source of comfort;
You're my cushion when I fall.
You help in times of trouble;
You support me whenever I call.

 I love you more than you know;
You have my total respect.
 If I had my choice of mothers,
You'd be the one I'd select.

Interpretation: The poem shows the love of the poet for his or her mother.

Significance: 
Interpretation shows the understanding of poems, helps readers to have a deeper comprehending of the meaning or message that the poets try to convey.
 
 

Imagery


Imagery
Definition: Languages that are used so that the audience can imagine or picture the scene in their minds to make it easier to understand

Example: 


I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  

Significance: 
The importance of imagery is the audience could imagine what the poet is describing. And it also can bring many opinions about the picture that they imagine by their senses.

   

Poetry


Poetry
Definition: A type of literary art in which can be written or spoken to express, to say what you want. It can rhyme.


Example: 


Haikus are easy.
Sometimes they do not make sense.
Refrigerator.

Significance:
Poetry is important, because it contains rhyme in it. Poetry helps us to visualize things through words. By studying this, I can express my feelings or experiences on words.




Rhyme

 Rhyme
Definition:  When words in the poem sound alike.


Example: 
Can somebody explain to me,
Why everybody is trying to be,
Living like a celebrity,
Doing what they see on MTV.

Ice is cool but I'm looking for more,
Simple things are what my heart beats for.
Cos' that's me, I don't ask for much,
Baby, having you is enough.
Significance:
Rhyme can create rhythm. Rhyme is also important because it gives poems the beat which makes poems easy to read and remember. It sounds fun, that could make the audience to be interested to read.

Speaker

Speaker
Definition: The poem's narrator or the first person of the poem

Example :
 I am sharp and focused
I wonder what the camera really sees
I hear the buzzing bee
I see flowers in early morning light
I want to stop light in a box
I am sharp and focused

Significance:
The speaker in a poem allows us to who is telling the story. The speaker can change the tone of the poem if the speaker is the poet.



Personification

Personification
Definition: A type of metaphor that a nonhuman object is described as or act like a human.

Example: 
The Cat and The Fiddle
Hey diddle, Diddle,
The cat and the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon;
The little dog laughed
To see such sport,
And the dish ran away with the spoon.
     - Mother Goose
Significance:
Personification is a figurative language that are used to make poems more interesting and creative. It gives readers a image of what is being personified and talked about in the poem.


Extended Metaphor


Extended Metaphor
Definition: A poem with several lines that use metaphor.


Example:  
Charlie is a bomb.
He is waiting to explode.
The bomb is full of anger;
he has a short fuse.
He may go off at any time.

Significance: 
  Extended metaphors make poems become more interesting and entertaining.  It  helps readers understand more about the experiences of the poets, also can  increase the creativity of students.



Stanza


Stanza
Definition: An arrangement of a specific number of lines forming a division of a poem. A stanza can have a fixed length, meter and rhyme scheme but not necessarily so.

Example :
I Love To Write
(First Stanza)
I love to write
Day and night
What would my heart do
But cry, sigh and be blue
If I could not write

(Second Stanza)
Writing feels good
And I know it should
Who could have knew
That what I do
Is write, write, write
 
Significance: 
 Stanzas are like paragraphs in normal prose. Each stanza represents a concept and the spaces between the stanzas are like rest stops, allowing the reader to stop and think about what they have just read.
 

Couplet

Couplet

Definition: When two rhyming lines that are next to each other.


Example: 
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending

Significance: Couplet can be used with everything.Rhyming couplets make poems easy and interesting to read.

Elegy:


Elegy
Definition: A sorrowful, mournful and plaintive poem, usually lamenting the death of someone


Example:  
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly over the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Significance:
Elegies express the feelings, mercy, grief, and laments of poets for the death of their beloved ones. Instead of hiding all the sorrow and pain, people can express all of them through writings.




Meter

Meter
Definition: A regular pattern of stressed and unstressed syllable.

Example: 
~      ~   /   ~    ~      /   ~    ~    /
From  the  centre  all  round  to  the  sea,
~   ~    /   ~    ~    /     ~    ~      /
I  am  lord  of  the  fowl  and  the  brute.
 
Significance:  
Meter brings some sort of emotions to the readers or listeners. 
As the reader is reading the poem, meter can help them to feel the beat of poems.
 


Alliteration


Alliteration
Definition: Repetition of consonant sounds in several words that are close together

Example:
Rain races,
Ripping like wind.
Its restless rage
Rattle like
Rocks ripping through
The air.

 Significance: 
Alliteration gives poems imagery and makes poems more memorable and interested to read.




Assonace

Assonance
Definition: The repetition of vowel sounds in words that are chose together to create rhyming.

Example:  
Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!

Significance:
Assonance isn't necessary to be used. It helps the poem to be sound better and funnier. Assonance also can effect the mood and tone of poems.


 

Onomatopoeia


Onomatopoeia
Definition: The use of words with sounds that imitate or suggest their meaning

Example:
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.

Significance:
Onomatopoeia helps the poet to bring sounds and senses together. And I think it's also help the readers to feel interested to read
  

Symbols


Symbols:
Definition: Something that has the meaning and represents for something else that is visually.

Example:
The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned.
Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves gone.
The last of them now bank the house or have been burned.
None are left upon the trees or on the lawn.

Green and tall as ever it grew in spring the grass
Grows not too tall, will not be cut again this yea.
Geraniums in bloom behind the window glass
Are safe. Fall has fallen yet winter is not yet here.

How warm the late November sun although how wan.
The white house stands a symbol of fulfillment there,
Housing one old woman, a cat, and one old man
After abundance but before the earth is bare.
                (Symbol - Robert Francis)




Significance: Use symbols to compare two things together. Symbols help to represent something to show how much those things are alike. Symbols can also express a poet's feelings or attitude to someone or something.




Lines

Lines:
Definition: A single line of words in a poem.
Example:

Broccoli for breakfast.
Broccoli for lunch.
Broccoli that's tender.
Broccoli with crunch.

Significance:
Lines in the poem help the reader to stop of the end, and to think back what the meanings of the lines. Each line has an idea of a poem.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Types of Poetry

Types of Poetry


 Narrative: 
Definition: A poem that tells a story.
Example:

Agnes Hatot

  by: Henry Abbey (1842-1911)



When might made right in days of chivalry,
Hatot and Ringsdale, over claims of land,
Darkened their lives with stormy enmity,
And for their cause agreed this test to stand:
To fight steel-clad till either's blood made wet
The soil disputed; and a time was set.

 

But Hatot sickened when the day drew near,
And strength lay racked that once had been his boast.
Then Agnes, his fair daughter, for the fear
That in proud honor he would suffer most,
Resolved to do the battle in his name,
And leave no foothold for the tread of Shame.

 

She, at the gray, first coming of the day,
Shook off still sleep, and from her window gazed.
The west was curtained with night's dark delay;
A cold and waning moon in silence raised
It's bent and wasted finger o'er the vale,
And seemed sad Death that beckoned, wan and pale.

 

But Hope sails by the rugged coasts of Fear;
For while awakened birds sang round her eaves,
Our Agnes armed herself with knightly gear
Of rattling hauberk and of jointed greaves;
Withal she put on valor, that to feel
Does more for victory than battle-steel.

 

She had a sea of hair, whose odor sweet,
And golden softness, in a moonless tide
Ran rippling toward the white coast of her feet;
But as beneath a cloud the sea may hide,
Son in her visored, burnished helmet, there,
Under the cloud-like plume, was hid her hair.

 

Bearing the mighty lance, sharp-spiked and long,
She at the sill bestrode her restless steed.
Her kneeling soul prayed God to make her strong,
And prayer is nearest path to every need.
She clattered on the bridge, and on apace,
And met dread Ringsdale at the hour and place.

 

They clash in onslaught; steel to steel replies;
The champed bit foams; rider and ridden fight.
Each feels the grim and brutal instinct rise
That in forefront of havoc takes delight.
The lightning of the lances flashed and ran,
Until, at last, the maid unhorsed the man.

 

Then on her steed, she, bright-eyed, flushed, and glad,
Her helmet lifted in the sylvan air;
And from the iron concealment that it had,
The noiseless ocean of her languid hair
Broke in disheveled waves: the cross and heart,
Jewels that latched her vest, she drew apart.

 

"Lo, it is Agnes, even I!" she said,
"Who with my trusty lance have thrust thee down!
For hate of shame the fray I hazarded;
And yet, not me the victory should crown,
But God, the Merciful, who helps the right,
And lent me strength to conquer in the fight." 

 

Ballads:

Definition: A poem that is written in a song that tells story about love, betrayal, or death.
Example:



I Hear Voices...

               






And from the graves, where names were carved in
stone, came a mournful Ballad, of life gone by.

A Ballad sang by mothers, whose children left behind,
and left to sing their ballads, of tears that did remain.

And what of Fathers Ballad, whose job was not complete,
who died and sang his song, of things that could not be.

In a smaller voices, still weeping and confused, the children
sang their Ballad, of parents never knew.

And in some far off place, a Ballad did come fourth, of all
the deaths that happened, that wasn't meant to be.

A soldiers painful Ballad, did seemed so unjust, of the
war that finally killed him, in a land he never knew.

The Ballad, of unknown, thou human, none the less,
were buried here alone, with not a one to care.

In the quiet of a cemetery morn, the Ballad of
the dead, echoes silently across green grass,
and through the granite stones.

It makes one wonder, about the Ballad of the dead,
and what will be our song...when we are finally gone.

 Epic:
Definition:  A long narrative poem that is written in elegant language that tells a story about a hero. 
Example
The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the 1st century BC (between 29 and 19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. It is written in dactylic hexameter (considered to be the Grand Style of classical poetry). The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed.

  Lyric:
Definition: A type of poem that is used to express feelings and thoughts.
Example:
Love Lyric
by: Jake Erkens

Guitar strings strummed
The drum sticks beating
And the vocalist singing

A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love

Going falsetto
And three notes lower
His girlfriend in the front row
Lifts her hands up high in the air

As he sings a love lyric
While the band plays the notes

A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love

Sonnets: 
Definition: A lyric poem that is always fourteen lines long, from unstressed syllables to stressed syllables. Per sentence carries 5 each.
Example:
Decision  
There are only two possibilities
God the result of imagination
Or God the Lord over all creation
With supernatural abilities

Considering the liabilities
The former, a finite observation
The latter, spirit rejuvenation
With its infinite capabilities

Choosing the former one has to reason
What's wanted is some final solution
An end to it all with no life ahead
I choose the latter for a new season
Trusting in God as my resolution
Gaining promised eternal life instead


Odes:
Definition: A long and complex poem that uses elegant language to celebrate for a person or a thing.
Example: 

An Important Quality...Compassion
Let us speak of compassion and giving aid
to our fellow human beings.
Why are we so slow to take note of our
brothers plight? Is it not strange, that so
many times it requires the tragedies of
society, to reveal the best of humanity?
So many dire, critical events and desperate
pleas of mankind are seen in the light of day.
It seems they are not responded to, until the
twelfth hour, when darkness comes and
all seems lost. Is it not better to respond to
a cry for help before the darkness, while
there is time, while the light of hope
burns brightly?


© Joe Fazio 

elegies: 
Definition: A type of poem that is for mourning, usually for a death person.
Example: 
Elegy
You are my living
elegy

Breathing beating beasting feasting
incantation bleeding

sound boiling to
heat becoming

LIGHT

you are my living beauty

you
yes, you

burst begetting brilliance
scintillant substance of quintessence

fetting my
realized actualized
unconscious

eidolON

Angel of the lord washing the dirt
from sun-burnt
FACE

We
we Are
living this
being this
beauteous elegy

fruitious monument of merriment
magnificent Magical melody

 
 Free Verse:
Definition: A poem that doesn't follow any rhyme scheme or meter, but it does include other elements of poetry.
Example:

Betrayed

Spoken--a word implicit.
A concept--broken.
Trust--
A token, dropped
In the machine--
Time's up.
I have proven over
And again, I am
Tougher than I seem--
A fool still, hopeful.
And you never say
You grant me equal credibility
Or similar delusions.
To believe everything
You say--how can
I give you what I am not given?
But I do--
I would, and I will.
And I let you
Keep pieces of me
Locked, keyed to you
Secretly--only I
Can no longer
Be sure of finding them--
You will tell me,
I or you
Right or wrong.
And this new
Revisionist me
Wants only to be right
And for you to know.