Exploring Poetry: Forms, Devices, and Impact
Delve into the world of poetry and prose with an in-depth look at what sets them apart, how authors manipulate stylistic devices to evoke emotions, the significance of performance in poetry, and the role of poetry in advocating for social justice. Discover the beauty and power of poetic expression through examples, definitions, and comparisons that highlight the unique nuances of this literary form.
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1. What is poetry? 2. How is poetry different from prose? 3. How do authors use stylistic devices to affect the emotions of their readers? 4. How does the performance of poetry affect its meaning? 5. How can poetry be used as a tool for social justice?
Websters Dictionary: Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: For poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. Audre Lorde: The difference between poetry and rhetoric / is being / ready to kill / yourself / instead of your children.
Prose is a starting pitcher with a game plan. He pitches to each batter differently each time up. His game is full of little dramas: impending catastrophe, escape, tension building, subsiding, building again Poetry is a one-inning reliever-- a fireballer, a screwballer, a pitcher with a slider that batters flick their bats at as it breaks a foot outside in the dirt Prose is a boxer: jabbing, moving, slipping, stinging, wearing his opponent down. Poetry is a knockout punch; the big left hook that is carried on all the highlight films Prose is a song; poetry is a guitar lick every kid can yow-yow with his mouth Prose is the Mona Lisa; poetry is the smile.
Types of Poems Sonnet Lyric Ballad Elegy Epic Idyll Pastoral Figurative Language Alliteration Assonance Metaphor Simile Conceit Hyperbole Personification Metonymy Onomatopoeia Simile Synecdoche Allusion Imagery Parts of a Poem Verse (Free and Blank) Stanza Caesura Couplet Foot Meter Refrain Stress
Alliteration: the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words Allusion: a reference to a famous person, thing, or work Assonance: the repetition of vowel sounds Ballad: a poem that tells a story (such a folk tale or legend), often with a refrain Caesura: a natural pause or break in a line of poetry Conceit: a poetic image or metaphor that compares one thing to another that seems unlikely Couplet: a pair of lines of the same length and that usually rhyme
Elegy: a poem written for the death of a person Enjambment: the continuation of a sentence or idea across more than one line of poetry Epic: a long, serious poem that tells the story of a heroic figure Foot: two or more syllables that together make up the smallest unit of rhyme in a poem Hyperbole: deliberate exaggeration used for emphasis Idyll: a short poem depicting a peaceful, idealized country scene
Imagery: the use of language appealing to the five senses Lyric: a poem that expresses the thoughts or feelings of the poet Metaphor: a comparison of two things when one is said to be the other Meter: the arrangement of lines according to the number of syllables and rhythm Metonymy: the substitution of one word for another closely associated word Onomatopoeia: words used to imitate sounds Pastoral: a poem that depicts rural life
Personification: giving human traits to non-human objects or things Refrain: a line or phrase repeated throughout the poem Simile: comparison of two things using like or as Sonnet: a 14-line lyric poem Stanza: two or more lines organized to form the divisions of a poem Stress: prominence or emphasis given to certain syllables
Synecdoche: a part used to substitute for the whole, or the whole is used to mean the part Verse: a single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose) Free Verse: poetry with unrhymed lines or rhymed lines with no set meter Blank Verse: poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
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