University:
Bradley University
Course:
ENG 372 | Poetry As Genre
Academic year:

2024
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158

Pages:

11
Author:

Remington Spence

Poetry Compare and Contrast Poetry • A type of literature • Appeals to heart • Appeals to emotions/feelings • Uses verses/stanzas • Ideas are expressed in shorter, more powerful form Prose • A type of literature • Appeals to head • Logical • Uses sentences/ paragraphs • Ideas expressed with a lot more words Terms • Poetry- a written expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and rhythmical terms. A form of literature. Usually contains rhyme and a specific meter, but it doesn’t always. • Verse- One line of poetry. There are three kinds based on rhyme and meter. – Rhymed Verse- Verse with end rhyme and a regular meter – Blank Verse- No end rhyme but there is a definite meter – Free Verse- No rhyme and no regular meter • Rhyme- The likeness of sound existing between two words. There are two kinds of rhyme. – End Rhyme- Same sound at end of verse – Internal Rhyme- Same sound within a verse • Rhyme Scheme- The pattern/sequence in which rhyme occurs. Uses the letters of the alphabet to show pattern. • Meter- A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables. • Stanza- A division of a poem based on the form. Stanzas are named by the number of verses they contain – Couplet- 2 line stanza – Triplet- 3 line stanza – Quatrain- 4 line stanza – Quintet- 5 line stanza – Sestet- 6 line stanza – Septet- 7 line stanza – Octave- 8 line stanza Rhyme Scheme A A B A Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. B B C B My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. C C D C He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. D D D D The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Stanzas If cars go zoom, exhaust smoke will plume! Salmon are fast They zoom right past In a big blast Snowy, white, gray, cold Chilly, frigid, freezing, bright These words describe winter When there's snow in winter, it's very nice Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know, Such harmonious madness From my lips would flow The word should listen then – as I am listening now Devices Used in Poetry • Simile- comparison using “like” or “as” – She is like a rose • Alliteration- deliberate repetition of consonant sounds • Assonance- deliberate repetition of vowel sounds – And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride. • Diction- poet’s distinctive choices in vocabulary • Metaphor- a comparison not using “like” or “as” – He is a snake • Echo- repetition of key word or idea • Oxymoron- a seeming contradiction in two words put together – Jumbo shrimp • Personification- attribution of human motives or behaviors to impersonal agencies – The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky. • Rhyming couplet- a pair of lines which endrhyme expressing one clear thought • Rhyme- repetition of same sounds • Rhythm- internal “feel” of beat and meter perceived when poetry is read aloud • Tone, Mood- feelings or meanings conveyed in the poem • Apostrophe- an address to a person absent or dead to an abstract entity – “O Captain! My Captain!”, title of the famous poem by Walt Whitman • Hyperbole- exaggeration for dramatic effect – Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Concord Hymn“ • Onomatopoeia- “sound echoing sense”; use of words resembling the sound they mean – Boom, bang, slash, slurp, gurgle, meow, woof, zip, buzz • Paradox- seeming contradiction that surprises by its pithiness – I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago • Ghost House by Robert Frost

The Stars Danced Playfully in the Moonlit Sky

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