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Poems differ as much as the people who write and
read them or as much as music or
,
movies do
needs
A
good poem is not a secret
message one a special
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advanced
decoder
ring or an
degree to decipher
from
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Poetry is , in certain vital

ways ,
distinct other
forms of
writing
A poem wouldn't mean if it could
anything mean
everything
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Poetry
Defining define 's
snowflake
Trying to
poetry is like
trying to catch a
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Merriam Webster :
writing that formulates a concentrated
imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen
and arranged to create a specific emotional response

through meaning sound and rhythm , ,

The Oxford English Dictionary

Composition incomparable patterned
verse or some
of expression of
arrangement language in which the

feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of

distinctive style and rhythm [ ] associated . . .
.
Traditionally
with explicit formal departure from the patterns of
of elevated
ordinary speech or prose , e.
g. ,
in the use

diction
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,
figurative language ,
and
syntactical reordering
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generate rhythm
feelings
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express and evoke specific emotion Is ) or

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concentrated
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with
a
way or intensity
Head, Heart classified work of fiction , with
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and some
the elements
including characters ,
action

arranged plot related to us by a narrator

into a

described as poem of a story

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It's hard to less formal even less

imagine
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dictionary diction or syntax

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We do have emotion here as well as conflict ,

between emotion and reason

Head Heart depends
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entirely
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on two
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figures of speech :

* of of one for
metonymy the use the name
thing
related
closely
another
thing
( head reason heart emotion ) -
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* personification the representation of an object or

abstraction as a person
an
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By arranging words into lines and, often, into stanzas,

the determines
poet where the words fall on the
page
Again and then also reverberate us and with each other
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in

head , heart , and

because
they rhyme just as ,

help alliterate
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Poems be classified into based
may subgenres
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on

various characteristics
including
,
their
length ,

appearance ,
and formal feature f ; their subject ;
of situation and
or even the
setting they depict
type
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A sonnet traditionally has fourteen 114 ) lines
is a poem about death
An
elegy
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< Since Aristotle s time readers and writers have divided

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into 3 narrative dramatic

poems broad
categories
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based their mode of presentation

or
lyric upon
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the of particular kinds allows

learning conventions us
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to betteradjust to individual poems compare to each other , ,

and appreciate how each

creatively uses reworks or even , .

defies or
questions generic conventions
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Narrative poems book
length epics ; chivalric
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murder ballads ; and of

romances :
grisly range a

harder - to -

classify works of
varying lengths
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Poetry }
The pattern along with
rhythm and rhyme adds
irony
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5 Lyric Poetry 3
few specific kind of
A ode and the
lyric including the
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elegy ,originated the in ancient world
Dramatic
Monologues
resides and dramatic
A subgenre that between
lyric poetry
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that teaches us more about both

The speaker of dramatic
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a
monologue conventionally addresses one or more silent
infer from the Speaker 's
auditors whose
identity we can
only
words to them
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steps to Follow, Questions to Ask, & Sample Reading Notes}

7 Listen to poem first
Helps sound clearer
*
you
hear its
qualities get ,
a

impression of its tone , and start making sense

of its
syntax
2 Articulate your expectations with the title
Read the
3
* To create
syntax literally
aural and visual
patterns poets ,
use inversion
4 Consult reference works
5
Figure out who, where
,
when. and what happens
* Who's the poem's speaker$ ) ,
auditor Is ) , other characters
* Addressed cupid
what is the poem 's
as an epithet , then
by name (apostrophe)
*
* What is the situation described in the
setting
poem
* If it doesn't have a plot how would describe
its internal structure
, you
6 Formulate tentative answers to the questions , why
does it matter ? what does it all mean ?

what conflicts does the poem explore for the other characters
*
* what are its themes

poems form contributes to its effect &

7 Consider how the
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meaning
* Are lines
enj ambled or end stopped
* Is there alliteration ? What's the poem's
rhyme or

base meter
*
couplet 2 lines 1 sentence to
rhyme
:

8
Investigate and consider the
ways the poem both uses and departs from
poetic conventions, especially those related to form and
subgenre
* is it blank verse
,
ballad stanza, sonnet, Ode or ballad
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anapestic meter (Tennessee )

9 Argue