Poetry

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Poetry
Il Postino [The Postman]
(Michael Radford, 1994)
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Watch Clip on YouTube.
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Terms
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alliteration
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allusion
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ambiguity
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carpe diem
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colloquial
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connotation
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denotation
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explicate
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figurative/
figures of
speech
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hyperbole
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imagery
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irony
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literal /
figurative
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metaphor/
simile
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metaphor/
simile
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meter
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metonymy
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onomatopoeia
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paraphrase
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parody
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persona
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poetic diction
 kings of old
 old kings
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poetry vs. prose
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poetry vs.
verse
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prosody: meter, feet,
rhyme scheme, scansion
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rhyme
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satire
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sonnet
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stanza
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symbol
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synecdoche
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syntax
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understatement
How NOT to
Read a Poem
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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
Poetry
How NOT to Read a Poem
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
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Mrs. D. was an imperious, white-haired woman who not only gave extra credit
for every symbol we could find in The House of the Seven Gables (the chickens in
the back yard = repressed sexuality, etc.) but concocted a humiliating scheme in
which 11-A students would tutor 11-Bers, including me, thereby allowing close
acquaintances to be more than ordinarily supercilious and condescending to
their about-to-become-former-friend. The highlight of the year, however, was
our discussion of Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." The poem,
we were told, and we had to regurgitate what we "learned" on a subsequent
test, is about Santa Claus; indeed Kris Kringle is the speaker, taking a break
"without a farm house near" to contemplate the work that yet lies ahead in
delivering all those presents. (The "little horse" is, of course, really a reindeer;
he thinks it odd to pause in an empty field because there is no house to deliver
presents to; the speaker has "miles to go before [he] sleeps" because he has
"promises to keep" to all those little boys and girls, etc.--you get the idea.)
Though not yet literary, not yet even a reader, I smelled a rat. Such an approach
seemed silly.
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How NOT to Read a Poem
Poetry
How silly I realized only recently, while teaching introduction to literature at
Middle Tennessee State University. In the required text, Michael Meyer's
comprehensive Bedford Introduction to Literature, I was surprised to find an
excerpt from Herbert R. Coursen, Jr.'s "The Ghost of Christmas Past: 'Stopping
by Woods on a Snowy Evening,'" an essay, originally published in College
English in 1962, four years before I suffered through Mrs. D's class. A parody
of poetic interpretation, a "how not to do it" guide, Coursen's essay had
evidently been misread by Mrs. D. with all the literalism of the British
audience of Swift's "Modest Proposal." She didn't get the joke, and she passed
on her lack of discernment to us. All over Western Pennsylvania there are
probably hundreds of people now in their fifties who think the poem is about
Santa Claus.
How NOT to Read a Poem
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College English
(December 1962).
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How NOT to Read a Poem
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
Billy Collins
Introduction to Poetry
from The Apple that Astonished Paris
(Fayetteville, Ark: University of
Arkansas Press, 1996).
or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
How NOT to Read a Poem
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My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
a B plus in bed.
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
a B plus in bed.
My son says I am average,
an average mother, but if
I put my mind to it
I could improve.
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
a B plus in bed.
My son says I am average,
an average mother, but if
I put my mind to it
I could improve.
My daughter believes
in Pass/Fail and tells me
I pass.
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
My husband gives me an A
for last night's supper,
an incomplete for my ironing,
a B plus in bed.
My son says I am average,
an average mother, but if
I put my mind to it
I could improve.
My daughter believes
in Pass/Fail and tells me
I pass. Wait 'til they learn
I'm dropping out.
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Linda Pastan
Marks (1978)
Gestalt Shift
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Gestalt Shift
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Gestalt Shift
Necker’s Cube
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Gestalt Shift
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Gestalt Shift
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Gestalt Shift
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Gestalt Shift
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