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Poetic Forms – Part 9

Poetic Forms – Part 9. English 12 - Tolley Sonnets: Free Verse & Blank Verse. Free Verse:. No rules for meter or rhyme.

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Poetic Forms – Part 9

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  1. Poetic Forms – Part 9 English 12 - Tolley Sonnets: Free Verse & Blank Verse

  2. Free Verse: • No rules for meter or rhyme. • This makes the poem free to find its own form according to what the poet - or the poem - wants to say, but still allows him or her to use rhyme, alliteration, rhythms or cadences (etc) to achieve the effects that s/he feels are appropriate.

  3. Free Verse: • A poem composed of varied, unrhymed lines having no fixed metrical pattern. • NO strict Form Rules! • NO rhyme rules • NO meter • Lines are usually different lengths

  4. Free Verse Example: • Earth by Katie Peterson • I didn't come here to make speeches. • I didn't come here to make trouble. • I didn't come here to be • someone's mother. • I didn't come here to make friends. • I didn't come here to teach. • I didn't come here to drag the space heater • from the house in summer with an extension • cord out to the orchard because • the peach trees we planted • in a climate that couldn't take them • didn't thrive, couldn't sweeten • their fruit in a place like this.

  5. Free Verse Example #2: • Song of Myself (excerpt)
by Walt Whitman I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

  6. Blank Verse: • A poem made up of unrhymedlines of Iambic Pentameter (U / x5) • So, like a sonnet, but any length you want, and no rhyme, no “turn” or “volta”… (Ok, so basically not like a Sonnet at all, it’s just iambic pentameter too)

  7. Blank Verse Example: From “Ulysses” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson U / U / U / U / U / By this still hearth, among these barren crags Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race , That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.

  8. Blank Verse Example #2: • The Ball Poem • By John Berryman • U / U / U / U / U / • What is the boy now, who has lost his ball, • What, what is he to do? I saw it go • Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then • Merrily over-there it is in the water!

  9. Homework: • Your homework is: • 1. Rehearse & plan how you will speak and perform your chosen poem for Poetry Café day (next class!!!). • 2. If you are participating in the treat contest, then remember to bring your treat (you may drop it off in my room at the start of school if you prefer). I will only have napkins, so if you need plates, forks, etc– bring them!

  10. Upcoming Reminders: • Your Final Exam is approaching! • Your Poetry Zine is due when you walk into the Final! (S0 start it soon!!!) • Periods 4 & 5: Final Exam is Wed, May 29th. • Period 2: Final Exam is Thurs, May 30th. • Get your Poetry Zine started, so it is polished and ready to turn in on Final Exam day. • Study for your Final Exam! (Use yellow notes packet, and the lectures on my Website)

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