Poetry Elements

Poetry (2)

We have covered form, line length and line breaks.

Today we will look at white space, indention, stanza, as well as a few other aspects of poetry.

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Review:

We will vote for our favorite "Spectacular Seven" poems

at the end of this Quizizz!

White space (or blank space)

and

indention

create a

poetic

aesthetic.

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White space & Indention

​(non-traditional/experimental)

White space is

the absence of text

to create

an effect.

And now,

it is

your turn to create

with white

space.

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White space & Indention

Open Ended

Write your own poem using white space and indention:

The primary purpose of stanzas is to provide structure.

A stanza usually is a group of lines arranged together in a recurring pattern of metrical lengths and a sequence of rhymes.

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Stanzas

Stanzas provide poets with a way of visually grouping together the ideas in a poem, and of putting space between separate ideas or parts of a poem.

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Stanzas

Multiple Choice

Stanzas...

• consider the lilies in a poem's field.

• help organize ideas in a poem.

• are only supposed to be in groups of three to four.

• put a stamped letter in the poem's mailbox and raise the flag.

• create an impetus of servility.

Consonance & Assonance

Assonance is when vowel sounds are repeated in two or more words in a poem creating internal rhymes. Examples: crying time; hop-scotch; great flakes; between trees; the kind knight rides by.

Assonance

A resemblance in sound between two words, or an initial rhyme, like alliteration. Can also refer to shared consonants, whether in sequence (“bed” and “bad”) or reversed (“bud” and “dab”).

Consonance

Consonance

Out, Out,— - Robert Frost

The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard

And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood,

Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

And from there those that lifted eyes could count

Five mountain ranges one behind the other

Under the sunset far into Vermont.

​The repetition of constonant sounds

(any letter that is not a vowel [a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y])

Multiple Choice

The consonance in this line: "Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it."

• breeze, drew

• sweet-scented stuff, across

• sweet, stuff

• across, breeze, stuff

Assonance

The Tyger – William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night; 

What immortal hand or eye, 

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

 

In what distant deeps or skies. 

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

​The repetition of vowel sounds

(a, e, i, o, u, sometimes y)

Multiple Choice

Identify the assonance: "Tyger Tyger, burning bright, 

In the forests of the night;" 

• burning, bright

• forests, night

• tyger (x2), bright, night

• tyger, bright

A few more fun examples: Structure

Street Music – Arnold Adoff

 

T h i s c i t y: the

a lw a y s

no i s e grinding up from the subways under

g r o u n d:

slamming from bus tires and taxi horns and engines of cars and trucks in all

v o c ab u l a r i e s

of

clash

flash

screeching

hot metal l a n g u a g e

c o m b i n a t i o n s: as p l a n e s

overhead roar

an orchestra of rolling drums and battle blasts assaulting

my ears with

the always

noise of t h i s ci t y : street music

 

A few more fun examples: End Rhyme, Imagery, Figurative Language

Fallen Star – Tupac Shakur

 

They could never understand
what u set out 2 do
instead they chose 2
ridicule u

when u got weak
they loved the sight
of your dimming
and flickering starlight

How could they understand what was so intricate
2 be loved by so many, so intimate
they wanted 2 c your lifeless corpse
this way u could not alter the course
of ignorance that they have set
2 make my people forget

“Hope” is a thing with feathers – Emily Dickinson

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -

That perches in the soul -

And sings the tune without the words -

And never stops - at all -

 

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard -

And sore must be the storm -

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm -

 

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -

And on the strangest Sea -

Yet - never - in Extremity,

It asked a crumb - of me.

​A few more fun examples: Slant rhyme (words that have similar but not identical rhymes)

The Raven – Edgar Allen Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—

    While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

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​A few more fun examples: Alliteration, Onomatopoeia

Open Ended

Vote for your favorite poem!

"Dust of Snow" by Robert Frost

"Caged Bird" by Maya Angelou

"Since Hanna Moved Away" Judith Viorst

"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

"Dreams" by Langston Hughes

"Sympathy" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke