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.

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.