the devices poets use to make their
poems pleasing to the ear.
Assonance The repetition of
vowel sound in words like rain,
makes, pavement, and wavy.
Our noses, Our toes, take hold
on the loam”
What do we
Know?
A type of literature that expresses
ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a
specific form using lines and stanzas.
How thin and sharp is the moon tonight!
How thin and sharp and ghostly white
Is the slim curved crook of the moon
tonight!
We know….
Poet
The poet is the
author of the
poem
Speaker
The speaker in the
poem is the narrator
of the poem. The
speaker may be
human but just as
often, it may be an
animal or object
Our toes, our noses
Take hold on the loam,
Acquire the air.
Nobody sees us,
Stops us, betrays us;
The speaker of the
poem is the narrator
of the poem.
Form is the way
the words are
arranged on
the page.
My dad
Taught me
How to fight
He would
Always tell
Me to stick
And move
Never put your
Guard down
Every weekend
We Would do my
Morning chores
A group of lines
arranged together.
The sea creeps to pillage,
She leaps on her prey;
A child of the village
Was murdered today.
She came up to meet him
In a smooth golden cloak,
She choked him and beat him
To death, for a joke.
Her bright locks were tangled,
She shouted for joy,
With one hand she strangled
A strong little boy.
Now in silence she lingers
Beside him all night
To wash her long fingers
In silvery light.
Couplet
= a two line stanza
Triplet
= A three line stanza
Quatrain = a four line stanza
Quintet = a five line stanza
Couplet
= a two line stanza
A couplet is a
pair of lines of verse. It usually consists of two lines that
rhyme and have the same meter.
Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,"
In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;"
If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"
The readers threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."
Quatrain
= a four line stanza
a quatrain
is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four
lines, in which the lines 2 and 4 must rhyme. Lines 1 and 3
may or may not rhyme. Quatrain usually follows an abab,
abba, abcb, aabb, or aaba
The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
The beat created by the sounds of the words
in a poem. Rhythm can be created by meter,
rhyme, alliteration, and repetition.
I’m through, Can you sing a song for me Boo?
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter occurs when the stressed (strong) syllables
and unstressed (weak) syllables of the words in a
poem are arranged in a repeating patterns
amBER
amBER
amBER
amBER
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
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A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
When poets write in meter, they count out the
number of stressed (strong) syllables and
unstressed (weak) syllables for each line.
amBER
amBER
amBER
amBER
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
ˇ ′
ˇ ′
ˇ ′ ˇ ′
A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
They repeat the pattern throughout the poem.
amBER
amBER
amBER
amBER
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
kyUH
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
jorDAN
ˇ ′
ˇ ′
ˇ ′ ˇ ′
•Free Verse poetry is very conversational. It sounds like
someone talking to you.
•It does not have any repeating patterns of stressed and
unstressed syllables
•It does not rhyme.
My Enemy Was Dreaming
1
when I found my enemy sleeping
i stood over him as still
as the owl at night
as the heron waiting for fish
i raised my knife to kill him
6
10
then I saw my enemy was dreaming
his mouth made a little smile
his legs trembled
he made small sleep sounds
only I will have this memory
i will show the others
only the horse of my enemy
i will not tell the others
i left my enemy dreaming
Richard Cory
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown
Clean favored and imperially slim.
And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
“Good-morning,” and he glittered when he walked
And he was rich - yes, richer than a kingAnd admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.
So on we worked, and waited for the light,
And went without the meat, and cursed the bread;
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet through his head.
There is a plot, there is a conflict, and there are characters in
Narrative poetry.
the devices poets use to make their
poems pleasing to the ear.
the devices poets use to make their
poems pleasing to the ear.
Alliteration The repeating of the
beginning consonant sound in
words like
dance, dare, and drop
or
Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled peppers
the devices poets use to make their
poems pleasing to the ear.
Assonance The repetition of
vowel sound in words like rain,
makes, pavement, and wavy.
Our noses, Our toes, take hold
on the loam”
& Alliteration
She sells seashells by the
seashore
is of course the rhyming of words at the
ends of two or more lines of poetry.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
The rhyming of words in the middle
of lines.
After he had made an out,
A pout rattled around his mouth
The rhyming of words in the middle of
lines.
I'm a lean dog, a keen dog, a wild dog, and lone;
I'm a rough dog, a tough dog, hunting on my own;
I'm a bad dog, a mad dog, teasing silly sheep;
I love to sit and bay the moon, to keep fat souls
from sleep.
The repeating of a word or phrase
to add rhythm or to emphasize a
certain idea.
The wind hissed, hissed down the
alley.
comes to us through our five
senses.
comes to us through our five
senses.
They allow us to see, hear,
smell, taste, and touch.
Poets use special language to
create mental pictures or
sounds or smells. Imagery
is the name we give to the
use of this special language.
comes to us through our five
senses.
Most imagery is visual. It
creates pictures in the
reader’s mind by appealing to
the sense of sight. .
comes to us through our five senses.
Images can also appeal to the
senses of sound, touch, taste, and
smell.
comes to us through our five senses.
While imagery is an element
of all types of writing, it is
especially important in
poetry.
Wolves
Last night I heard wolves howling,
their voices coming from afar
over the wind-polished ice – so much
brave solitude in that sound
They are death’s snowbound sailors;
they know only a continual
drifting between moonlit islands,
their tongues licking the stars.
But they sing as good seamen should,
and tomorrow the sun will find them,
yawning and blinking
the snow from their eyelashes.
Their voices rang through the frozen
water of my human sleep.
blown by the wind
with the moon for an icy sail
Imagery
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were
delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Main Idea, Summary,
Theme
These are
three entirely
different
Things.
Main Idea, Summary,
Theme
These are
three entirely
different
Things.
Main Idea, Summary,
Theme
The MAIN IDEA is
what the selection
as a whole is
about.
Main Idea
A passage may be
mostly about a
young man’s
dreams of becoming
a carpenter
Summary
A summary tells the
most important
things about an
article
Summary
A summary tells the
most important
things about an
article. It is
different from the
main idea.
Summary
A summary tells
what the story is
about but it also
gives the important
details or events.
A Summary might
read…
Joseph is a young
boy who dreams of
one day leaving
school and
becoming a
carpenter.
The “Century Quilt”
Woman’s stories
have often been
silenced so the
Century Quilt
reminds us that…
The “Century Quilt”
The women of the
past left us texts of
coarse wool, fine
wool, satin, lace,
burlap, silk,
brocade, and hemp.
The “Century Quilt”
The hope is that we
present day readers
can learn to read
such texts and gain
a sense of the past
and a sense of…
The “Century Quilt”
…the spiritual hope
of those women
that recorded
history and then
then created these
quilts as…
The “Century Quilt”
…a testament to
their strength as
they were often
surrounded by
death and
destruction.
The “Century Quilt”
…a testament to
their strength as
they were often
surrounded by
death and
destruction.
The “Century Quilt”
If we could read a
quilt, we could
understand a great
part of our cultural
history.
The “Century Quilt”
In its most basic
existence, a
patchwork quilt, like
any blanket is just a
means to keep out
the cold.
The “Century Quilt”
In “The Century
Quilt” the poems
speaker simply
hoped to inherit her
grandmother’s
special Indian
blanket…
The “Century Quilt”
But it went to her
sister instead. So,
cutoff from this
inheritance, she
found a quilt “I’d
like to die under”
The “Century Quilt”
This one is a
covering that will
not only warm her,
but seems to have
some of the same
magic as the
grandmother’s quilt.
The “Century Quilt”
It too can inspire
dreams. The colors of
the squares
symbolizes the blend
of cultures from which
the speaker springs.
The “Century Quilt”
This new quilt is one
she is sure will bring
good dreams.
What would you say is the main
idea of the Century quilt? How
would you summarize this
passage?