POETRY: POEMS AND TERMS
“Autobiographia Literaria”
“Introdution to Poetry”
“the New Poem”
“Ars Poetica”
“?Poetry”
“My Papa’s Waltz”
“Hanging Fire”
“Digging”
“Shoulders”
“The Gift”
“Gift”
“The Sun Rising”
“Make Music with Your Life”
”fueled”
“The Bean Eaters”
”Taxi”
“My Mistress Eyes”
ESSAY- You will write a short essay on the test based on a short poem (given on the test) you probably have never read. You will discuss two or three important elements (see list below) and then suggest these elements propel the poems message/theme/idea. I will prepare you for this essay by discussing “The Bean Eaters” and Taxi” in a similar fashion.
Elements/Terms of Poetry
Simile: direct comparison between two unlike things usually delivered with the word “like,” “as,” or “so.”
Metaphor: a figurative analogy or comparison between two things where the comparison is indicated directly, without the “like” or “as” customary in similes.
Hyperbole: an extreme exaggeration, such as in the expression “from here clear into the next county”
Personification: endowing inanimate things with human qualities.
Tone: the feeling that the poem creates for the reader
end rhyme, where lines end in similar sounds
near rhyme occurs when the rhyming is close but not perfect, as in “fort” and “fret,” or “daisy” and “racy.”
Alliteration is the repetition especially of consonant sounds in words occurring in close proximity.
Assonance involves the repetition of similar vowel sounds in syllables ending with different consonant sounds, as in “roof,” “tooth,” and “shoot.”
Onomatopoeia is where the sounds of words suggest their meaning, such as in the words “buzz,” “crackle,” and “sizzle.”
Euphony is where the words sound pleasant and harmonious,
Cacophony is the opposite, where the sound is harsher and more discordant
Meter: The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into repeating patterns within lines of poetry establish a poem’s meter; an iamb is a pair of stressed and unstressed syllables; iambic pentameter, for instance, is a common meter indicating five feet (units made up of unstressed and stressed syllables) per line: “The rain is scarce this year in Tulsa town,” e.g.
Caesura is strong pause occurring in the middle of a line of verse.
Types of sensory images:
Visual-sight
Aural-hearing
Tactile-touch
Olfactory-smell
Gustatory-taste
