Introduction to Poetry
BY:Billy Collins
*metaphors, visual imagery, persona
A Poet’s Thought
BY: Thomas Hardy
*quatrain, end stop, rhythm (aa,bb,cc,dd), lazy rhyme/end rhymes, initial alliteration (maimed and mangled, time’s tongue)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
BY: William Butler Yeats
*end rhyme, quatrain, lyric poem
Those Winter Sundays
BY: Robert Hayden
*tactile/visual imagery, lyric poem, cacophony
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
BY: Adrienne Rich
*Narrative poem, end stop lines, euphony, rhyme scheme (aa,bb,cc,dd,ee,ff).
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Sir Patrick Spence
BY: Anonymous
*Visual imagery, end stop, 4th quatrain lazy rhyme
Out Out
BY: Robert Frost
*Lyric poem, onomatopoeia, sound imagery, internal assonance
My Last Duchess
BY: Robert Browning
*Dramatic monologue, run-on
Ask Me
BY: William Stafford
*persona, run-on
Verse
Single line of poetry or any composition written in separate line of more or less regular rhythm
Paraphrase
Restatement in one’s own words of what one understands a poem to say or suggest
Summary
Brief condensation of the main idea or plot of work
Subject
Main topic of a work
Theme
Recurring subject or idea
Lyric poem
short poem expressing thoughts and feelings, songlike immediacy & emotional force
Narrative poem
tells a story (Ballads and epics 2 common forms)
Dramatic monologue
poem written as a speech, addressing a silent listener
Didactic poem
Intended to teach a moral lesson or impart a body of knowledge
My Papa’s Waltz
BY: Theodore Roethke
*slant/end rhyme, visual/tactile/smell imagery
Speech to the Young.
Speech to the Progress-Toward
BY: Gwendolyn Brooks
*Dramatic monologue, end stop, initial alliteration
White Lies
BY:Natasha Trethewey
*Visual Imagery, run-on
Dog Haiku
BY: Anonymous
*haiku, dramatic irony, allusion, onomatopoeia
Oh No
BY: Robert Creeley
*Verbal irony, run on, sarcasm
Tone
conveys an attitude toward the person addressed
Satiric poetry
Comic poetry generally conveys a message
Persona
Fictious character
Irony
speaking that implies a discrepancy
Verbal Irony
words say one thing but mean something else
Sarcasm
Verbal irony conspicuously bitter, mocking
Dramatic irony
situation where character with limited knowledge says/does something of greater significance
Cosmic irony/irony of fate
Fate with grim sense of humor, seems to cruelly trick a human being
This is just to Say
BY: William Carlos Williams
*Sarcasm, taste/tactile imagery, minimalist, open form
Upon Julia’s Clothes
BY: Robert Herrick
*Formal diction (liquefaction), euphony, mostly general diction, lyric poem
English con Salsa
BY:Gina Valdes
*All 5 imagery, persona, open form, run and end stop, metaphors, obvious dialect
Concrete diction
immediately perceive with senses
Abstract diction
express ideas or concepts
Poetic diction
system of words, elevated language intended for poetry rather than common use
allusion
indirect reference to any person,place, or thing.
vulgate
speech not much affected by schooling (common people)
colloquial
casual conversation or informal writing of literate people
general English
most literate speech and writing
formal English
impersonal language, usually written
dialect
variety of language spoken by regional group or social class
The Bean Eaters
BY:Gwendolyn Brooks
*Alliteration (twinklings & twinges), quatrain, mostly end stop, no set rhythm
denotation
defined in dictionary, literal meaning
connotations
overtones or suggestion of additional meaning (emotional)
In a Station of the Metro
BY: Ezra Pound
*visual imagery, end stop, minimalist poem
The piercing chill I feel
BY:Taniguchi Buson
*Haiku, internal alliteration (Piercing chill I), visual imagery
The Fish
BY: Elizabeth Bishop
*Image poem, visual/tactile imagery
Image
words refer to sensory experience
Imagery
collective sets of images
Haiku
Japanese verse poem, 3 unrhymed lines (5,7,5). serious and spiritual, imagery, one of seasons
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
BY:William Shakespeare
*Shakespearean Sonnet (octave,seset,hero couplet), closed form, iambic pentameter, informal(thee-vulgate)
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day?
BY: Howard Moss
*modernized, internal alliteration, lazy rhymes, satiric
simile
compare two things (like,as,than)
metaphor
one thing is something else
implied metaphor
imply metaphorically, don’t specifically say
mixed metaphor
combining 2 or more incompatible metaphors, results ridiculousness or nonsense
personification
endowing of a things, animal, abstract with human characteristics
apostrophe
direct address to someone or something (inanimate object, dead or absent person)
overstatement
hyperbole. exaggeration to emphasize a point
understatement
ironic figure of speech describes something less that it actually is
metonymy
name of a thing substituted for another closely related
synecdoche
significant part of a thing stand for the whole thing
paradox
statement first as self contradictory, but reveals some deeper sense. play on words
Who Goes with Fergus
BY: William Butler Yeats
*alliteration (for fergus), assonance (and all)internal assonance (O), euphony, cacophony(line 13), end/slant rhymes, rhythm (abc,abc,def,def)
All day I hear
BY: James Joyce
*lazy rhyme, assonance (O), onomatopoeia (moan), alliteration (making moan), euphony poem
No More Jazz at Alcatraz
BY: Bob Kaufman
*Internal Assonance (O), alliteration line 4, lines 11-14 cacophony, rest of poem euphony, slant/end rhymes
euphony
sound of words pleasing to the ears
cacophony
harsh effect, sounds terrible
onomatopoeia
word imitates sound
alliteration
succession similar sounds (cool cats)
assonance
repeat vowel sound (initial or internal)
rhyme
identical or similar vowel sounds
consonance
same beginning and end but different vowel
internal rhyme
within lines
We Real Cool
BY: Gwendolyn Brooks
*run on, initial alliteration (strike straight, sing sin), all unstressed
Break, Break, Break
BY: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
*end rhymes, no meter, end stop, internal assonance (O)
Counting-out Rhyme
BY: Edna St. Vincent Millay
*end stop/run on, slant rhymes, trochaic
stress (accent)
greater force on one syllable
cesura
slight but definite pause in line
end stopped
lines end in full pause, punctuation
run on
line doesn’t end in punctuation
meter
rhythmic pattern of stress in verse
iambic line
line made up of iambs (unstressed, stressed)
rhythm
recurring pattern of stresses and pauses
trochaic line
line of trochees (stressed, unstressed)
anapestic line
line of anapests (2 unstressed, stressed)
dactylic line
line of dactyls (stressed, 2 unstressed)
iambic pentameter
line of 5 iambs
Counting the Beats
BY: Robert Graves
*memento mori, quatrain, lazy rhymes, rhythm (aaaa,bbba,ccca,ddda,eeea,bbba) fairly regular rhythm
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why
BY: Edna St. Vincent Millay
*Italian sonnet (almost), iambic pentameter, octave, cesura, sestet (terset turn & final heroic terset), initial alliteration, run on
form
literary work expresses content (design)
fixed form
traditional requiring predetermined elements
closed form
poetry in pattern of meter, rhyme, lines, stanzas (set structure)
open form
no set scheme, free verse
blank verse
5 iambic ft/line, unrhymed
couplet
2 rhymed lines of iambic pentameter
quatrain
stanza of 4 lines
epic
long narrative poem, adventure of hero (consistent form)
epigram
very short, comic poem, sharp wit- turning at end
sonnet
fixed form, 14 lines, iambic pentameter and rhymed
Italian sonnet
rhymes octave and sestet
English sonnet
Shakespearean, 3 quatrains and concluding couplet
For the Anniversary of My Death
BY: W.S. Merwin
*memento mori, open form, initial alliteration (tireless traveler), simile, run on
Buffalo Bill’s
BY: E.E. Cummings
*projective verse, fast rhythm, run on (within lines), visual imagery, no rhythm