Introduction to poetry
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This document provides an introduction and overview of poetry. It defines poetry as using language to express imaginative and emotional qualities. It discusses key elements of poetry like form, imagery, and figurative language. It also covers different types of poetry such as free verse, haiku, narrative poems, and sonnets. Additionally, it explains poetic devices like rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, repetition, and figurative language including similes, personification, and onomatopoeia. The document is intended to teach about poetry and provide foundational information on its definition, purpose, elements, types, and literary techniques.
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Introduction to poetry
- 1. Introduction to Poetry TO BE REPORTED BY: Mr L Mosimango
- 2. Definition • A collection of words that express an emotion or idea. • Poems are literary attempts to share personal experiences and feelings. • Good poems show images which leave the reader the sense of delight, awe and wonder.
- 3. Definition of Poetry • Poetry - A type of writing that uses language to express imaginative and emotional qualities instead of or in addition to meaning. • Poetry may be written as individual poems or included in other written forms as in dramatic poetry, hymns, or song lyrics.
- 4. Which half do you use when studying poetry? • • • • Poetry requires creativity Poetry requires emotion Poetry requires an artistic quality Poetry requires logic.
- 5. Purpose of Poetry • To express ideas, feelings and emotions.
- 6. Key Elements of Poetry • • • • • Form Speaker Sound Imagery Figurative Language
- 7. Types of Poetry Free Verse: Poetry that doesn’t follow any specific patterns in rhythm, rhyme scheme, or line length; free verse may contain rhymes, but they are not used in a prescribed manner
- 8. Types of Poetry Haiku A three-line Japanese poetic form in the lines follow the pattern of five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. Kochira muke Ware mo sabishiki Aki no kure Will you turn toward me? I am lonely too, This autumn evening.
- 9. Types of Poetry
- 10. Types of Poetry Narrative Poem: A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story; “The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem
- 11. Types of Poetry Sonnet: A very structured fourteen-line poem that follows a specific rhyme structure and rhythm. The two most common sonnets are the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet. William Shakespeare wrote many English sonnets, which are also referred to as hakespearean sonnets.
- 12. Rhyme One of the most beautiful elements found in poetry is rhyme. Rhyme is the matching of sounds that are similar. Say, Pay, Tray, Spray, Day, May Blue, True, zoo, do, too
- 13. Rhyme When working with rhyme, you should always remember that the most important part of verse is the last word. • The last word of each verse is what establishes they rhyme. Twinkle, twinkle little star! How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high. Like a diamond in the sky. A A B B Rhyme Scheme
- 14. Rhythm • It is a movement with uniform recurrence of a beat or accent." In its crudest form rhythm has a beat with little or no meaning.
- 15. Alliteration • The repetition of the initial letter or sound in two or more words in a line. To the lay-person, these are called “tongue-twisters”. • Example: How much dew would a dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop dew?
- 16. Repetition • Using the same key word or phrase throughout a poem. This should be fairly self-explanatory, but . . . at risk of sounding like a broken record . . .
- 17. Figurative Language
- 18. Figurative Language Figurative Language is the use of words outside of their literal or usual meaning to add beauty or force. It is characterized by the use of similes and metaphors.
- 19. Figurative Language Simile: A direct, explicit comparison of one thing to another in which the words like or as are used. Example: She looks like an angel. Her lips are as sweet as honey.
- 20. Figurative Language Personification: The strategy of giving animate qualities to abstract concepts, or inanimate things. Example: This handless clock stares blindly from its tower.
- 21. Figurative Language Onomatopoeia: The attempt to echo or imitate sounds with words. Example: Bow-wow, oink-oink, tic-tac, howling
- 22. Figurative Language Hyperbole: An exaggeration Example: I have been waiting for a million years.
- 23. Quote of the Day
- 24. Credit to: • • • • • ra744195 Brent Bloffwitch Clairmcknnon Neil Richard Lopez Lois Hayna