Things to know (some things to know!!) poetry-short stories
Alliteration
Tennyson-British
Assonance
Shakespeare-British
Consonance
Wilfred Owen-war
Euphony
Walt Whitman-American
Cacophony
Dudley Randall-Black American
Slant rhyme
Thomas Hardy- British , Victorian
Perfect rhyme
Masculine rhyme
Feminine rhyme
A.E. Housman-British, Victorian
Sound devices
Philip Larkin
Onomatopoeia
Jack Finney-American
Denotation
W.W.Jacobs-London, England
Connotation
O. Henry – American, William Sydney Porter
Metaphor
surprise endings, prison-embezzling
Simile
“The Gift of the Magi”
Personification
John Donne
Irony
Hyperbole
Symbolism
Uses of language (3)
Eagle as symbol
Two limited approaches to poetry to avoid
Tone
Iambic tetrameter, trimeter, pentameter
Rhyme scheme
Function of poetry
Speaker
Poetry’s primary concern
Poetical prose mentioned
Transmitting station and receiving station
Poetry is the most condensed and concentrated form of literature.
Poetry has at least four dimensions.
Companion poem
Syntax
Imagery
Paraphrase
Meter, scansion, metrical foot
Diction
Allusion
Ballad
Quatrain
Couplet
Edith Hamilton
How to read a poem- 5 points
Purpose of caesuras
Colloquial
Evidence
Theme
Speaker (shift?)
Tone (shift?)
Structure
Style
Novels by Hardy
Exposition
Tom Benecke
Interoffice Memo
Lexington Avenue
Clare
Climax
Conflict
Resolution
Foreshadowing
Mr. and Mrs. White
Herbert
Sgt. Major Morris
Maw and Meggins
Mood created how
Mr. Easton
Miss Fairchild
Leavenworth
Denver
Functional setting
Counterfeiting symbol
Marshall
Significance of title
Local color
Ballad
Aubade
Iamb
juxtaposition
Enjambment
Caesura
“The mother smiled to know her child/Was in the sacred place”
“He crasps the crag with crooked hands”
“Ah, were I courageous enough/To shout Stuff your pension!”
“While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.”
“Get stewed/Books are a load of crap”
“the blood/Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs”
“O word of fear/Unpleasing to a married ear!”
“Four beating wings, two beaks, a swirling mass…/rumbling, turning”
“But that smile was the last smile to come upon her face”
“…all he was ever going to have out of life he would then, abruptly have had. Nothing
could ever be added to his life….a wasted life.”
“I shot him dead because---/Because he was my foe”
“the chap/Who’s yellow and keeps the store/Seem far too familiar.”
“Your girl is well contented/Be still, my lad, and sleep”
“Must business thee from hence remove?”
“It seems to me I’ve got all I want.”
“No, yesterday he went to wed/One of the brightest wealth has bred”
“Six days of the week it soils/With its sickening poison”
“They admit no liability at all, but…”
“…so now you’re one of those dashing Western heroes, and you ride and you shoot…”
Do you see poems ideal for compare and contrast?
What is the purpose of writing each poem?
How does each speaker feel/ What is the tone?
Example: “Toads” and “A Study of Reading Habits” What ties them together?
Works:
“Hearts and Hands” O. Henry
“The Monkey’s Paw” W.W. Jacobs
“Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket” Jack Finney
“The Eagle” Tennyson
“Winter” Shakespeare
“Dulce et Decorum Est” Wilfred Owen British
“Spring” Shakespeare
“The Dalliance of Eagles” Walt Whitman American
“Ballad of Birmingham” Dudley Randall
“The Man He Killed” –Hardy
“A Study of Reading Habits” Philip Larkin
“Is My Team Plowing” A.E. Housman (Victorian-contemporary of Hardy)
“Break of Day” John Donne
“Toads” Philip Larkin
“Ah, Are You Digging on my Grave” Hardy (Victorian)