All Day I Hear
by James Joyce
Had I the Choice
by Walt Whitman
Storm Fury
by William ShakespeareWinter
Ocean
by John Updike
1. bard (n)
2. chafe (v)
[chafed / chafing]
3. *emulate (v)
emulation (n)
4. monotone (n)
monotonous (adj)
monotonously (adv)
monotonousness (n)
5. mortise (n)
also mortice
a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing
and reciting verses on heroes and their
deeds; a composer, singer, or declaimer
of epic or heroic verse
irritate, vex; to rub so as to wear away
to strive to equal or excel; copy in
action or attitude
a succession of syllables, words, or
sentences in one unvaried key or pitch;
a single unvaried musical tone; tedious
sameness or *reiteration
a hole, groove, or slot into or through
which some other part of an
arrangement of parts fits or passes;
dovetail
6. portly (adv)
portliness (n)
7. ruffian (n) -s
ruffianism
8. *undulation (n)
undulate (v)
undulating (part v)
undulatingly (adv)
9. *unwieldy (adj)
10. *wield (v)
wielder (n)- one
who wields
dignified, stately; heavy or rotund of
body
a brutal person; a bully
rising and falling in waves; wavy
appearance; waviness
not easily managed, handled, or used (as
because of bulk, weight, complexity, or
awkwardness); cumbersome
to deal successfully with; to handle; to
exert one’s authority by means of
influence; to have at one’s command
Characteristics and Elements of Poetry
repetition—comes from ancient battle poetry; used for
emphasis
rhythm or meter—sing-song meter is easily remembered;
pattern of accented/unaccented syllables, which is
called meter
Units of meter are known as poetic feet.
What was the common meter that Shakespeare
used?
free verse—uses neither meter nor rhyme
rhyme—most obvious form of repetition in poetry
patterns can vary, but a pattern emerges unless the
poem is free verse
[abab cdcd, etc. or aa bb cc dd, etc]
Characteristics and Elements of Poetry
Other sound repetition devices:
alliteration– repetition of initial consonant sounds in
accented syllables
clasp, crag, crooked
consonance—repetition of terminal consonant sounds
clasps, hands
assonance—repetition of vowel sounds in accented
syllables
clasps, crag, hands
James Joyce
(1882-1941)
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Irish writer and poet, widely considered
to be one of the most influential writers
of the 20th century.
Joyce was a key figure in the
development of the modernist novel.
He is best known for his landmark
novel Ulysses (1922).
Other major works are the short-story
collection Dubliners (1914), and the
novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).
Though most of Joyce's adult life was
spent in continental Europe, his fictional
universe does not extend much
beyond Dublin, and is populated largely
by characters who closely resemble
family members, enemies and friends
from his time there;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce
All Day I Hear
by James Joyce
All day I hear the noise of waters
Making moan,
Sad as the sea-bird is when, going
Forth alone,
He hears the winds cry to the water's
Monotone.
The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing
Where I go.
I hear the noise of many waters
Far below.
All day, all night, I hear them flowing
To and fro.
John Updike
March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009
• American novelist, poet, short story
writer, art critic, and literary critic.
• Updike's most famous work is his Rabbit
series (the novels Rabbit, Run; Rabbit
Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and
the novella "Rabbit Remembered")
which chronicled the life of Harry
"Rabbit"
• A Rabbit Is Rich (1981) and Rabbit At
Rest (1990) received the Pulitzer Prize.
• Describing his subject as "the American
small town, Protestant middle class",
Updike was well recognized for his
careful craftsmanship, his unique prose
style, and his prolific writing.
• He wrote on average a book a year.
Updike populated his fiction with
characters who "frequently experience
personal turmoil and must respond to
crises relating to religion, family
obligations, and marital infidelity."
Winter Ocean by John Updike
Many-maned scud-thumper, tub
Of male whales, maker of worn wood, shrub-ruster, sky-mocker, rave!
Portly pusher of waves, wind-slave.
1. “All Day I Hear” could be called a mood piece.
What word or phrase would you use to describe
the mood of Joyce’s poem?
2. How would you describe the speaker in Joyce’s
poem?
3. How do the moods of the two poems differ?
4. Which of the two poems do you think makes
fuller use of imaginative comparison? Give
specific examples.
Storm Fury
from Shakespeare’s Othello (II.i.1-16)
Montano
What from the cape can you discern at sea?
1 Gentleman
Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
Descry a sail.
Montano
Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
2 Gentleman
A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous
mane,
seems to cast water on the burning bear,
And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:
I never did like molestation view
On the enchafed flood.
Walter "Walt" Whitman
(May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an
American poet, essayist and journalist.
A humanist, he was a part of the transition
between transcendentalism and realism,
incorporating both views in his works. Whitman
is among the most influential poets in the
American canon, often called the father of free
verse. His work was very controversial in its
time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of
Grass.
Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a
journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and –
in addition to publishing his poetry – was a
volunteer nurse during the American Civil War.
Early in his career, he also produced
a temperance novel, Franklin Evans (1842).
Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was
first published in 1855 with his own money. The
work was an attempt at reaching out to the
common person with an American epic.
Walter "Walt" Whitman
(May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) rejected
meter and tried to imitate in his poetry the
rhythms of nature. He was one of the first poets
in English to use free verse, and was certainly
the most influential.
He would, he says, forego the honored
examples of past poets if he could catch, for his
poetry, something of the motion and mood of
the sea.
Had I the Choice
by Walt Whitman
Had I the choice to tally greatest bards,
To limn their portraits, stately, beautiful, and emulate at will,
Homer with all his wars and warriors--Hector, Achilles, Ajax,
Or Shakespeare's woe-entangled Hamlet, Lear, Othello--Tennyson's fair ladies,
Meter or wit the best, or choice conceit to wield in perfect rhyme, delight of singers;
These, these, O sea, all these I'd gladly barter,
Would you the undulation of one wave, its trick to me transfer,
Or breathe one breath of yours upon my verse,
And leave its odor there.