Poetry I

Welcome to Poetry I
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Welcome to Poetry I

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Road map
English literature - poems

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Focus
You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 
  • a rhyme scheme
  • meter
  • literary tools in general 
are

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What is ...
a poem?

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Poem
'a piece of writing in which the words are arranged in separate lines, often ending in rhyme, and are chosen for their sound and for the images and ideas they suggest

Cambridge dictionary

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Your poems
haiku

lyric poem

shape poem

limerick

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Lyric poem: sonnet
14 lines

strict meter (iambic pentameter)

Shakespeare  - Sonnet 18 
'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'
 

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Meter
the rhythm of a poem

a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables 

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Rhyme scheme
Rhyme = 
repetition of the last sounds  of a word.

Day - May                    A

temperate - date          B

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Literary tools
Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

Rhyme (of course)

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Simile
I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night
Rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife
And if it was an open-shut case
I never would've known from that look on your face
Lost in your current like a priceless wine
The more that you say
The less I know

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Metaphor
Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)
Head on the pillow, I could feel you sneaking in
As if you were a mythical thing
The more that you say
The less I know

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Alliteration
Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?
I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones
These hunters with cell phones

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Write
Minimum requirements:

  • 4 lines
  •  one simile or metaphor
  • use rhyme 
  • one instance of alliteration

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Focus
You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 
  • a rhyme scheme
  • meter
  • literary tools in general 
are

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