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Poetry. Two Questions: Why Do We Care About Poetry? Why Does Poetry Exist?. First Question. Why Do We Care About Poetry? Read This Out loud
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Two Questions: Why Do We Care About Poetry? Why Does Poetry Exist?
First Question • Why Do We Care About Poetry? • Read This Out loud • “Listen, I’m down on my luck. I can’t get a good job and I have a wife that doesn’t love me and a kid I can’t take care of as well as I want to. I have bills I can’t pay and all I want is to escape, but I know, no matter how hard I try, I will always be in debt, unloved, and hurt. I’m not the only one who feels this way. A lot of people, due to their economic situation are in this position.”
“Guarantees” by Atmosphere • Poetry is Music and Music is Poetry • How Effective would this have been to read instead?
These warehouse wages Kill the ends introduction man I should have schooled it up When I was younger should have stuck to plan Always had the dreams of being more self assertive And my kids a teenager now he needs the health insurance So break my body Break break my soul down Just another zombie walking blindly through your ghost town Pull up to the bar to politic and tap the power Aint nobody really all that jolly at your happy hour But I dont want to go home yet SoImgonna talk to my cigarette And that television set Itdoesnt matter what brand or station Anything to take away from the current situationNo overtime pay no holiday Months behind on everything but the lottery Winter around the corner guaranteeing that my car dies Wifey having trouble trying to juggle both the part times My cup aint close to filled up We trying to build up so we can have enough And when I finally get the color There wont be nothing left to paint on A friend of mine tried to kill himself to the same songMy better half is mad at making magic out of canned goods
My tax bracket status got her questioning my man hood Myshorty got caught smoking weed at a concert And if I smack em everybody treats me like a monster My neighbors aint doing much better And we making competition instead of sticking together Cant save no nest egg in fact this nest is rented In fact that rent is late, wait The money aint here the raise aintcoming Just me and my son and that crazy woman And those bartenders this whole fucking country Got everybody swallowing that lunch meat Maybe we can speed up the process Kill me in my thirties in the name of progress Put me in the dirt and then change the topic Some time it seems like the only way to stop it Contemplate my departure date Doesnt take a lot to get a lot of us to talk this way Take a shot at me that's all i'm obligated for Apparently my only guarantee is a walk awayThe only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for Cause death dont wait for no one Sitting on your front door The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for Cause death dont wait for no one
What About Other Forms of Poetry • http://agent-odd.tumblr.com/post/6850587115/ocd-by-neil-hilborn • Versus • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnKZ4pdSU-s
How are these two versions different? • How do those differences inform the poem?
To Further Consider Form • http://www.litkicks.com/Texts/Bomb.html
Based on the Three Videos We Just Viewed: • Why Do We Care About Poetry? Why Does Poetry Exist? • Discussion
Allegory A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning. Allegory often takes the form of a story in which the characters represent moral qualities. • Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the beginning of words. Example: "Fetched fresh, as I suppose, off some sweet wood."
Assonance The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose, as in "I rose and told him of my woe." • Caesura A strong pause within a line of verse.
Connotation The associations called up by a word that goes beyond its dictionary meaning. Poets, especially, tend to use words rich in connotation • Couplet A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
Figurative language A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words. Examples include hyperbole or exaggeration, litotes or understatement, simile and metaphor, which employ comparison, and synecdoche and metonymy, in which a part of a thing stands for the whole. • Foreshadowing Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or a story.
Imagery The pattern of related comparative aspects of language, particularly of images, in a literary work. • Metaphor A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as like or as. An example is "My love is a red, red rose," • Meter The measured pattern of rhythmic accents in poems.
Onomatopoeia The use of words to imitate the sounds they describe. Words such as buzz and crack are onomatopoetic • Personification The endowment of inanimate objects or abstract concepts with animate or living qualities. An example: "The yellow leaves flaunted their color gaily in the breeze." Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" includes personification.
Rhyme The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. • Simile A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using like, as, or as though. An example: "My love is like a red, red rose." • Symbol An object or action in a literary work that means more than itself, that stands for something beyond itself.
Theme The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language, character, and action, and cast in the form of a generalization. See discussion of Dickinson's "Crumbling is not an instant's Act." • Tone The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and characters of a work, as, for example, Flannery O'Connor's ironic tone in her "Good Country People." See Irony.
Sonnet A Sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines (iambic pentameter) with a particular rhyming scheme. Examples of a rhyming scheme: #1) ababcdcdefefgg #2) abbacddceffegg #3) abbaabbacdcdcd Example: Sonnet of Demeter--Italian Sonnet Oh the pirate stars, they have no mercy! Masquerading as hope they tell their lies; Only the young can hear their lullabies. But I am barren and I am thirsty Since she has gone. No hope is there for me. I will roam and curse this earth and these skies-- Death from life which Zeus sovereign denies. My heart's ill shall the whole world's illness be Till she is returned-- my daughter, my blood-- From the dark hand of Hades to my care. With my tears these mortals shall know a flood To show Poseidon's realm desert and bare. No myrtle shall flower, no cypress bud Till the gods release her...and my despair.
Haiku Haiku (also called nature or seasonal haiku) is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature (seasons). Example: Come on let us see All the real flowers of this Sorrowful world ~Basho 1644-1694
Epic An Epic is a long narrative poem celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero...epics deal with the traditions, mythical or historical, of a nation. Examples: Beowulf, The Iliad and the Odyssey, the Aeneid, Gilgamesh
Free Verse Free Verse is an irregular form of poetry in which the content free of traditional rules of versification, (freedom from fixed meter or rhyme). In moving from line to line, the poet's main consideration is where to insert line breaks. Some ways of doing this include breaking the line where there is a natural pause or at a point of suspense for the reader. Authors: Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, T.S. Elliot Example: “I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.” ~Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
Limerick A Limerick is a rhymed humorous, and or nonsense poem of five lines. With a rhyming scheme of: a-a-b-b-a. Example: I love ta see the morning sun that's how I tell the days begun. Birds all singing a happy song it tis the place where I belong. Far from school without the nun
Monorhyme A poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme. Example: I was sitting in my chair wanting to become a millionaire It won't happen I'm well aware but I still think its very unfair I have even said a little prayer but I don't have that special flair And my bodies in great despair I think I look more like a pear But at least I still have my hair and a table to play solitaire
Quatrain A poem consisting of four lines of verse with a specific rhyming scheme. Quatrain rhyming scheme’s: #1) abab #2) abba -- envelope rhyme #3) aabb #4) aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd -- chain rhyme
