Poetry

1. What's poetry?

• Is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content.

• Poetry is a vast subject, as new as history and newer, present wherever nation is present,

• A conventional spoken, signed, or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture.

What's Rhythm?

•  Is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.

• Involves sound patterning and the combining of stressed and unstressed. A lot of classical poetry conforms to a systematic regularity of rhythm.

• A group of scholars and teachers pursuing knowledge together that with similar groups constituted a medieval university.

What's Rhyme?

• Refers to the process of creating words that sound like the very thing they refer to.

• Is a collection of coordinated sound or sounds.

• Refers to the repetition of sounds in a poem.

Choose the example of Rhyme. The rhyme scheme is described as ABAB.

• Grasshoppers scratch at the dirt, rub their wings with thin legs flaring out in front of the soldiers in low arcing flights, wings a blur.

• When some people talk about money. They speak as if it were a mysterious lover.

  Who went out to buy milk and never Came back.

• Sometimes I dream that I can fly.

  I lift and flap my arms just so,

  And soon I'm soaring to the sky.

  Graceful like a bird I go.

What is Onomatopoeia?

• Refers to the process of creating words that sound like the very thing they refer to.

• Understand the past by determining and ordering ‘facts’; and from these narratives we hope to explain the decisions and processes.

What is the onomatopoeia sound for a cat....

What is Consonance?

• Is created when something vibrates and sends waves of energy (vibration) into our ears. 

• The repetition of:

  a) vowel sounds (‘aeiou’), 

• Is the consonant-focused counterpart to assonance. It involves the repetition of consonant sounds in the middle or at the end of words.

What is Assonance?

• Similarly to alliteration, involves the repetition of sounds in a series of words, often consecutive words.

• All the words used to label the sounds.

• This device involves the repetition of the initial consonant sound of a series of words, often consecutively

What is Alliteration?

• Involves the combining of stressed and unstressed syllables to create a constant beat pattern that runs throughout.

• Refers to the repetition of sounds in a poem.

• This device involves the repetition of the initial consonant sound of a series of words, often consecutively.

Read and select a tongue twister.

• I'm thinking of youWith joy and pleasure,Remembering timesI'll always treasure.

• I miss you in the morning;I miss you late at night.Just to think about youIs my joy and my delight.

• I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream