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Intro to Poetry Features PPTD1396

The document provides an introduction to poetry, covering various poetic devices and terms such as lines, stanzas, rhyme, alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, and rhythm. It includes examples of each device from different poems to illustrate their use and effect. Additionally, it discusses the concept of free verse and the mood conveyed in poems.

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Intro to Poetry Features PPTD1396

The document provides an introduction to poetry, covering various poetic devices and terms such as lines, stanzas, rhyme, alliteration, simile, metaphor, imagery, and rhythm. It includes examples of each device from different poems to illustrate their use and effect. Additionally, it discusses the concept of free verse and the mood conveyed in poems.

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Introduction to Poetry

Poetic Devices & Terms


Lines and Stanzas
• Most poems are March
written in lines. A blue day
• A group of lines in A blue jay
a poem is called a
stanza. And a good beginning.
• Stanzas separate
ideas in a poem. One crow,
They act like Melting snow –
paragraphs.
Spring’s winning!
• This poem has two
stanzas. By
Eleanor Farjeon 2
The repetition of sounds End
rhyme- the last word on each line
rhymes.
Example: hat, cat, brat, fat,
mat, sat
My Beard
by Shel Silverstein
My beard grows to my toes,
I never wears no clothes,
I wraps my hair
Around my bare,
And down the road I goes.

Internal rhyme- Words INSIDE the sentence rhyme .


The repetition of the
initial letter or sound in
two or more words in a
line.are called “tongue-twisters”.
To the lay-person, these
Example: How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a
dewdrop did drop dew?
Let’s see
what this

Alliteration
Alliteration
looks like in
a poem. She Walks in Beauty
I.
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.

Alliteration
These examples use the beginning
sounds of words only twice in a line,
but by definition, that’s all you need.
Words that spell out
sounds; words that sound
like what they mean.
Examples: growl, hiss, pop, boom, crack, ptthhhbbb.
Let’s see
Noise Day
what this by Shel Silverstein
looks like in Let’s have one day for girls and boyses
a poem. When you can make the grandest noises.
Screech, scream, holler, and yell –
Onomatopoeia Buzz a buzzer, clang a bell,
Sneeze – hiccup – whistle – shout,
Laugh until your lungs wear out,
Toot a whistle, kick a can,
Several other
words not Bang a spoon against a pan,
highlighted could
Sing, yodel, bellow, hum,
also be
considered as Blow a horn, beat a drum,
onomatopoeia.
Can you find any? Rattle a window, slam a door,
Scrape a rake across the floor . . ..
A comparison between two
usually unrelated things using
the word “like” or “as”.

Examples:
Joe is as hungry as a bear.
In the morning, Rae is like an angry lion.
Ars Poetica

Simile
By Archibald MacLeish
Let’s see A poem should be palpable

Simile
and mute as a globed
what this fruit,
looks like in a Silent as the sleeve-worn
poem. stone
Of casement ledges where

Simile
the moss has grown—
A poem should be wordless
As the flight of birds.
An implied comparison between
two usually unrelated things.
Examples:
Lenny is a snake.
Ginny is a mouse when it comes to standing up for herself.

The difference between


a simile and a metaphor is
that a simile requires either
“like” or “as” to be included
in the comparison, and a
metaphor requires that
neither be used.
An exaggeration for the sake of
emphasis.
Examples:
I may sweat to death.
The blood bank needs a river of blood.
Giving human characteristics to
inanimate objects, ideas, or
animals.

Example:
The sun stretched its lazy
fingers over the valley.
Using words to create a picture
in the reader’s mind.
Poetry that follows no rules. Just
about anything goes.
This does not mean that it uses no devices, it just means that this
type of poetry does not follow traditional conventions such as
punctuation, capitalization, rhyme scheme, rhythm and meter, etc

Fog
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
No Rhyme
No Rhythm
No Meter
It sits looking
over harbor and city This is
free verse.
on silent haunches
and then, moves on.
Rhythm

Rhythm is the flow of the


beat in a poem.
Gives poetry a musical feel.
Can be fast or slow,
depending on mood and
subject of poem.
You can measure rhythm in
meter, by counting the beats
in each line.
Rhythm Example
The Pickety Fence by David McCord
The pickety fence
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
A clickety fence
Give it a lick it's a lickety fence
Give it a lick
Give it a lick
Give it a lick
With a rickety stick
pickety The rhythm in this poem is fast –
pickety to match the speed of the stick
striking the fence.
pickety
pick.
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Imagery
 Imagery is the use of words
to create pictures, or images,
in your mind.
 Appeals to the five senses:
smell, sight, hearing, taste
Five Senses
and touch.
 Details about smells, sounds,
colors, and taste create
strong images.
 To create vivid images
writers use figures of speech.
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Free Verse
Revenge
• A free verse poem
When I find out
does not use rhyme or who took
patterns. the last cooky

• Can vary freely in out of the jar


and left
length of lines, me a bunch of
stanzas, and subject. stale old messy
crumbs, I'm
going to take
me a handful
and crumb
up someone's bed.

By Myra Cohn Livingston


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Mood - Mad Song
Mad Song

I shut my door
To keep you out
Won’t do no good
To stand and shout
Won’t listen to
A thing you say
Just time you took
Yourself away
I lock my door
The mood in this poem is
To keep me here angry. What clues in the
Until I’m sure poem can you use to
You disappear. determine the mood?
By Myra Cohn Livingston
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Mood - Poem
Poem
I loved my friend.
He went away from me.
There’s nothing more to say.
The poem ends,
Soft as it began –
I loved my friend:
The mood in this poem is
By Langston Hughes sad. What clues in the
poem can you use to
determine the mood?
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