[PPT] - Writing P o etry Session 2 Sharing Homework (w/ partners) 3 Broad PowerPoint Presentation

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Writing Poetry

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Session 2

Sharing Homework (w/ partners) 3 Broad types of poetry Figurative Language Lines v. Sentences: syntax & structure The Writing Habit: Passion & Productivity Rhythmic Forms Preparing for our auction

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4 Dimensions of Poetry:

Intellect
Emotions
Imagination
Senses

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The Foundations of Poetry

it doesn’t tell about experience; rather, it

allows us to participate in it.

it broadens our experience by making us

acquainted with a range of experience we have no access to;

it deepens our experience by making us

feel more poignantly about experiences we are accustomed to

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Continuous Form: Stanzaic Form: Fixed Form:

3 forms of poetry

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Continuous Form:

3 forms of poetry

Design is slight or non-existent
Poem contains no line breaks
r formal groupings

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Continuous Form:

THE WIDOW'S LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed

ften before but not

with the cold fire that closes round me this year. Thirtyfive years I lived with my husband. The plumtree is white today with masses of flowers. Masses of flowers load the cherry branches and color some bushes yellow and some red but the grief in my heart is stronger than they for though they were my joy formerly, today I notice them and turned away forgetting. Today my son told me that in the meadows, at the edge of the heavy woods in the distance, he saw trees of white flowers. I feel that I would like to go there and fall into those flowers and sink into the marsh near them.

William Carlos Williams

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Stanzaic Form:

3 forms of poetry

Design contains repeated units with the same number of lines,

(usually with the same rhyme and metrical scheme)

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Stanzaic Form:

Reduced Circumstances He wasn’t always stretched that way, you know strained through that fine sieve and powdered out into polite society, a mote in someone else’s eye. The guy trained hard, compressed himself into the various molds

thers thought he’d fit. Nobody bothered

to show they cared–to try to add three days back into his week or put July back into his year–they just smiled, used him for their purposes, the last

f which was as the subject of some brief

but witty poem, and nobody knew

r wished to know the worst, most violent

effect: His circumstances were reduced until he merely sat with folded hands.

Harvey Stanbrough

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Fixed Form:

3 forms of poetry

Follows a traditional pattern that applies to entire poem.

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Fixed Form:

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night. Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Refrain 1 (A1) Line 2 (b) Refrain 2 (A2) Line 4 (a) Line 5 (b) Refrain 1 (A1) Line 7 (a) Line 8 (b) Refrain 2 (A2) Line 10 (a) Line 11 (b) Refrain 1 (A1) Line 13 (a) Line 14 (b) Refrain 2 (A2) Line 16 (a) Line 17 (b) Refrain 1 (A1) Refrain 2 (A2)

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Proposition # 4

Language can become your enemy!

some poems are more thought than

emotion

more concept than image,
The Poet should speak in images rather

than sentences

Free yourself from exposition, narration!

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what is The # 1 Question poets seek to answer?

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We want to know...

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We want to know...

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Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

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We ask, “What’s it Like?”

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Your Brain, not your Spleen, a Connection-Making Machine

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Poetry’s Workhorses: Simile Metaphor

Figurative Language

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Simile

Figurative Language

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Simile

Figurative Language

Simply: A is like B Using ‘like’ or ‘as’ or ‘seems’ Comparisons, though, should make use of common, ordinary material to explain the extraordinary

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Simile

Figurative Language

“I farm a pasture where the boulders lie, As touching as a basketful of eggs…” -Frost "and knitting up their brows they squinted at us like an

ld tailor at the needle’s eye...” -Dante

“We walk a great deal when the weather allows, The women in shoes that look like baked potatoes.” -Summers “It was cold. A ragman passed with his horses, their breaths blooming like white peonies...” -Hall

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Please, Please...No!

My heart is like a burning furnace, Burning in me and through me Until my whole vital organism is charred Like a piece of burnt meat no one can eat. My mind swirls like a whirlpool in murky waters Waters dark, black as death, thick as oil: The confusion is too big, No living creature of a thought can live Just like in an oil spill no creature can live, Nothing gives but pain. My joy died yesterday, my happiness yesteryear; Yesterday when you left me I died like a star And became like a black hole of death.

LJ Kundananji

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Metaphor

Figurative Language

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Figurative Language

Metaphor

A comparison that asserts one thing IS another: The figurative term is substituted for the literal term.

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Figurative Language

Metaphor

“Out of the chimney of the court-house a greyhound of smoke leapt and chased the northwest wind.” -Masters "...an eagle was perched on the jag of a burnt pine, insolent and gorged, cloaked in the folded storms of his shoulders...” -Jeffers “She held out a deck of smiles, I cut and she dealt...”

Jarrell

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Figurative Language

Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide

r press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out,

r 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.

Billy Collins

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Figurative Language s

A List

f Your

(recent) Life

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Your Brain Ingrained:

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ABACK ABASHED ABATE ABIDE ABLAZE ABLOOM ABOARD ABODE ABOUT ABOVE ABRUPT ABSOL VED ABSORB ABSTAIN ABSURD AFRAID AGAINST AGREE AHEAD AJAR ALARM ALERT ALIGN ALIKE ALIVE ALLEGE ALLOW ALOFT ALONE ALONG

Your Brain Ingrained:

iambs

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ABBEY ABLE ABSENT ACHING ACID ACORN ACRE ACTION ACTOR ADVERB AFTER AGENT AGING AILMENT AIMLESS AIRY ALBUM ALICE ALLEY ALMOND ALTAR ALWAYS AMPLE ANCHOR ANCIENT ANGEL ANGER ANGUISH ANKLE ANSWER

Your Brain Ingrained:

trochee

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AARDVARK ABSCESS ABSTRACT AD-HOC AD-LIB ADDICT ADVENT AFGHAN AIRBAGS AIRBORNE AIRCRAFT AIRLINE AIRTIGHT ALL-OUT ALLSPICE ALMOST ALOE ALPINE ALWAYS AMBUSH

ARCHDUKE ARCHIVE ARMBAND ARMCHAIR ARMPIT ARTWORK ASHTRAY

ATHLETE AZTEC

BACKACHE

Your Brain Ingrained:

spondee

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ABACUS ABDOMEN ABSTINENCE ABSTINENT ACCIDENT ACCURATE ACRONYM ACTIVIST ADDITIVE ADJECTIVE ADMIRAL ADVOCATE AFRICA AGENCY AGONY

AMBULANCE AMETHYST AMNESTY ANALYST ANARCHY ANGRILY ANIMAL ANNUAL ANXIOUSLY APATHY APPLICANT ARCHERY ARGUMENT ARSENIC ARSONIST ARTISAN ATHEIST AUDIENCE AUSTRIA AVARICE AVERAGE AWFULLY

Your Brain Ingrained:

dactyl

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CHANDELIER DISAGREE DISAPPROVE DISENGAGED DOMINIQUE INCOMPLETE INCORRECT INDIRECT INDISCREET INDISTINCT INHUMANE INTERTWINED MARYANNE MISCONCEIVED MISCONSTRUE MISINFORMED PERSEVERE REASSESS REDEFINE REENACT SUBMARINE VIOLIN as the boat at the dock by the sea for the love from the heart in the neck near the woods

f the truth
n the shore

to the beach up the creek with the tide

Your Brain Ingrained:

anapest

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Lines

The unit of composition is the line, not the sentence. Rhythmic units do not always coincide with syntactical units: that is, phrases, clauses & sentences.

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Enjambement: the running on of a thought from one line, couplet, or stanza to the next without a syntactical break or, the continuation of a sentence or phrase across a line break - as opposed to an end- stopped line. End Stopped Line: A line of verse that ends with a grammatical break such as a comma, colon, semi-colon or period.

Lines

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