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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. - Walt Whitman

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. - Walt Whitman. Poetry Unit. What is poetry?. I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definition… of… poetry--the best words in the best order. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences. - Walt Whitman

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  1. To have great poets, there must be great audiences. - Walt Whitman • Poetry Unit

  2. What is poetry? • I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definition… of… poetry--the best words in the best order. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge • Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. -Aristotle

  3. Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence its importance. -Matthew Arnold • Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these. -T.S. Eliot

  4. Poetry is the doorway to the soul. -Floria • Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.-Robert Frost • Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement. -Christopher Fry • Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. -William Wordsworth

  5. Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn. -Thomas Gray • Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. -Stanley Kunitz • Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words. -Edgar Allan Poe • Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own. -Salvatore Quasimodo

  6. Poetry is a language that tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said. -Edward Arlington Robinson • Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted. -Percy Bysshe Shelley • Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own. -Dylan Thomas

  7. Our Terms to Learn • Simile • Metaphor • Personification • Symbol • Figurative language • Image

  8. Denotation • Connotation • Couplet • Sonnet • Lyric poem • Rhyme scheme • Alliteration • Onomatopoeia

  9. How do you define poetry? Create your own definition in your notebook • Visit this site for a taste of what poetry is made of – good description of terms. • http://www.mshogue.com/poetry/made_of.html - by Ms. Dawn Hogue, English teacher

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