POETRY C
How to Read a Poem 1. Show no FEAR! 2. Read the title. Then, stop 3. Read the whole poem. 4. Annotate. 5. Use a Dictionary 6. Identify the narrator. 7. Notice shifts or changes. 8. Figure out the structure 9. Reread. 1. I will NOT understand everything on the first reading and that s ok! 2. Decide what you think the poem means based on the title. 3. All the way through without stopping. 4. Underline, highlight, comment, mark the rhyme scheme, mark confusing parts, define words. 5. Mark words you don t know and define them. 6. The narrator s tone will impact the message of the poem. 7. They may be indicated by words like but or however. 8. Rhyme scheme, meter, layout, white space, etc. 9. Aloud if possible. Note anything you learn.
Poem Structure Vocabulary 1. Couplet 2. Tercet 3. Quatrain 4. Sestet 5. Octave 6. Iambic Pentameter 7. Sonnet 8. Volta 1. 2 rhyming lines grouped together 2. 3 line stanza or complete poem 3. 4 lines grouped together 4. 6 lines grouped together 5. 8 lines grouped together 6. A line of 10 syllables alternating stressed and unstressed 7. One stanza poem consisting of 14 lines. 8. Turning Point in a Sonnet
Alternate rhyme: It is also known as ABAB rhyme scheme, it rhymes as ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH. Ballade: It contains three stanzas with rhyme scheme of ABABBCBC followed by BCBC. Monorhyme: It is a poem in which every line uses the same rhyme scheme. Couplet: It contains two line stanzas with A, A, rhyme scheme that often appears as A,A, B,B, C,C and D,D Triplet: It often repeats like a couplet, uses rhyme scheme of AAA. Enclosed rhyme: It uses rhyme scheme of ABBA Rhyme Scheme
Terza rima rhyme scheme: It uses tercets, three lines stanzas. Its interlocking pattern on end words follow: Aba bcb cdc ded and so on Keats Odes rhyme scheme: In his famous odes, Keats has used a specific rhyme scheme, which is ABABCDECDE. Limerick: A poem uses five lines with rhyme scheme of AABBA. Villanelle: A nineteen-line poem consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain is villanelle and uses rhyme scheme of A1bA2, aba1, aba2, aba1, aba2, aba1a2. Rhyme Scheme
Perfect Rhyme: Words that are exact rhymes like fox, box or cat, hat. Imperfect or Slant Rhyme: Words that aren t really perfect rhymes (often lyrics) Rhyme Scheme
Annotation Guide Symbol Identify Identify Count Count Underline Underline Squiggle Line Squiggle Line Star Star Box Highlight Circle Circle WRITE Write Guide Write Anything capital you letters believe (A, is B, important. C, etc.) You next can to each label line your notes A, B, C and continue them on the back of your paper. Write Mark the each number stanza and and circle line with it next a number to each stanza/line Look Words up you the do meaning not know of and the look word them or phrase up. and write it in the margin Write Count which Stanzas type and of Lines! sound Write device the the number poet next used. to Add each. notes Assonance, to the margin Consonance, about how Alliteration, enhances the meter Onomatopoeia, of the poem etc. Write which kind of figurative language it is that you identified. Add a note in the margin explaining its Mark figurative language with a star symbols, metaphor, simile, allusion, etc. meaning and significance Really Use a Box try to to picture mark the the setting(s). scene Write Highlight a note repeated in the margin words or about phrases. the significance of repetition of the word or phrase These are words that will help reveal the poem s tone. Write a note about why that word is Circle emotionally charged words. emotionally charged in the margin Write any down thoughts your thoughts, or ideas connections, you have while and reading things you think are important.
GYM CLASS HEROES & C ROBERT BURNS
Gym Class Heroes & Robert Burns Stereo Hearts 1. Two examples of simile in Stereo Hearts are in lines in lines 18, like your favorite note and in line 27, we come and go like on the interstate. Line 20 is also a metaphor comparing the narrator to a boombox. 2. GCH uses exaggeration when they ask If I was an old-school fifty pound boombox in line 20. A Red, Red Rose 1. In line 12 Burns writes, while the sand o time shall run which compares life moving forward to an hourglass. 2. Burns writes that his love will continue until the seas gang (run) dry and the rocks melt with the sun.
Gym Class Heroes & Robert Burns Stereo Hearts 3. The rhymes in Stereo Hearts are imperfect or slant rhyme and are mostly couplets (2 rhyming lines). 4. The idea presented in lines 3 & 4 of the Burns poem are nearly identical to the idea in Stereo hearts. A Red, Red Rose 3. The Burns poem has a rhyme scheme of ABCB/DEFE/FGFG/HIHI. It s not a perfect scheme, though, because he uses some repetition in the last two stanzas to give emphasis to how important his dear love is. Repetition helps give emphasis to the theme or message.
Gym Class Heroes & Robert Burns 5. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point. 6. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point. 7. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point. 8. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point.
THE SCRIPT & C EDMUND SPENSER
The Script & Edmund Spenser Breakeven 1. The seemingly contradictory statement that that reveals a compelling truth in Breakeven is in line 2 where he says he prayed to a god he doesn t believe in. 2. Most of these rhymes are slant rhyme. In the first stanza we see the slant rhyme Breathing/believe in, and in the last stanza we week the slant pain/blame. Using this type of rhyme is symbolic. It s a nod to the fact that this love is imperfect. These are not two, perfect puzzle pieces.
The Script & Edmund Spenser Breakeven 3. In Breakeven, there is a metaphor in line 3: Cause I got time while she got freedom comparing his heartbreak to prison. Sonnet 30 3. In Sonnet 30, the first line gives us a simile: My love is like to ice which compares the person he loves to a block of ice. 4. The word Love refers to a person. It is capitalize, which makes it an example of personification.
The Script & Edmund Spenser Sonnet 30 5. Spenser uses exaggeration effectively. One example of exaggeration in Sonnet 30 is But that I burn much more in boiling sweat (line 7). Sweat does not boil, no matter how hot you are inside. 6. The rhyme scheme of Sonnet 30 is ABAB/BCBC/CDCD/EE; this is vastly different from the couplet rhymes of Breakeven. Burns effectively uses perfect rhymes to emphasize his point while The Script s message is conveyed in a simpler manner. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point.
The Script & Edmund Spenser Sonnet 30 7. Spenser thinks that it s a miraculous thing that the more he loves, the colder his Love gets. This is not a from God type of miracle. The wonderful device refers to the wonder/amazement he feels in witnessing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what he things should happen. Fire should melt ice or ice should extinguish fire, but neither happens, which should be a testament to the power of love. Love is so strong that he can alter the natural course of life.
The Script & Edmund Spenser 8. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point. 9. Answers should be YOUR original thoughts and should reference, paraphrase, or quote the stanza(s) AND line(s) that help you make your point.
REMEDIATION TODAY DURING C OFFICE HOURS This replaces remediation for 4/13.
Shakespearean (English): The structure has 3 quatrains followed by a couplet and the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG Petrarchan (Italian): The structure is an octave (problem) followed by a sestet (resolution) typically separated by a volta, or turn. The rhyme scheme is typically ABBAABBA CDECDE. Types of Sonnets