Poetry I

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Welcome to Poetry I

Road map

English literature - poems

Focus

You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 

• a rhyme scheme
• meter
• literary tools in general 

are

What is ...

a poem?

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

Your poems

haiku

lyric poem

shape poem

limerick

Lyric poem: sonnet

14 lines

strict meter (iambic pentameter)

Shakespeare  - Sonnet 18 

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day'

 

Meter

the rhythm of a poem

a sequence of stressed and unstressed syllables 

Rhyme scheme

Rhyme = 

repetition of the last sounds  of a word.

Day - May                    A

temperate - date          B

Literary tools

Simile

Metaphor

Alliteration

Rhyme (of course)

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

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

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

Write

Minimum requirements:

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

Focus

You can define what makes a poem a poem 

You can relate what 

• a rhyme scheme
• meter
• literary tools in general 

are