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A brief, essential review of lyric poetry, which are short poems packing an idea and an emotional response to that idea.
What words in this short poem appeal to our sense of sight? http://www.roberthuntstudio.com/alterego/archives/red-wheelbarrow2.jpg
The frost that stings like fire upon my cheek, The loneliness of this forsaken ground, The long white drift upon whose powdered peak I sit in the great silence as one bound; The rippled sheet of snow where the wind blew Across the open fields for miles ahead; The far-off city towered and roofed in blue A tender line upon the western red; The stars that singly, then in flocks appear, Like jets of silver from the violet dome, So wonderful, so many and so near, And then the golden moon to light me home The crunching snowshoes and the stinging air, And silence, frost and beauty everywhere.
Simile: Comparisons using like or as Metaphor: Direct comparisons Personification: Giving life-like qualities to an inanimate object Apostrophe: Addressing the dead or absent as if alive or present Hyperbole: Gross exaggeration not meant to deceive Metonymy: Using a part to represent the whole
It may help you to know that halcyon means calm and peaceful; dais is a raised platform where people are placed to give them respect and honour; and vair are furs.
Lets checkout a poem that contains examples of metaphors. Ask yourself: What is the metaphor in the following poem? What are the common attributes to the two things compared?
The most famous example would be the poem Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, in which the speaker is speaking to the absent star as if it were alive and present.a double whammy apostrophe! Heres another
In the following poem, what symbols are used? What abstract ideas do they represent?
Let us walk in the white snow In a soundless space; With footsteps quiet and slow, At a tranquil pace, Under veils of white lace.
I shall go shod in silk, And you in wool, White as a white cow's milk, More beautiful Than the breast of a gull. We shall walk through the still town In a windless peace; We shall step upon white down, Upon silver fleece, Upon softer than these. We shall walk in velvet shoes: Wherever we go Silence will fall like dews On white silence below. We shall walk in the snow.
A partial list of words would include oink, bark, ring, meow, clang, bang and hundreds more. Make a list of at least 5 more.
Couplets: two rhymed lines of iambic pentameter Blank Verse: 5 feet or groups of iambic pentameter Free Verse: a non-regular rhythmic and organic form Concrete: takes a shape that reflects its content Haiku: a three-lined, short poem of Japanese origin Limerick: 5 lines of usually humorous poetry
The Night was creeping on the ground! She crept, and did not make a sound
Until she reached the tree, And then She covered it, and stole again Along the grass beside the wall. I heard the rustle of her shawl As she threw blackness everywhere Along the sky, the ground, the air, And in the room where I was hid! But, no matter what she did To everything that was without, She could not put my candle out! So I stared at the Night! And she Stared back solemnly at me!
O MY Luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June. O, my Luve's like the melodie, That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass, So deep in luve am I, And I will luve thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear, And the rocks melt wi' the sun! And I will luve thee still, my dear, While the sands o' life shall run. And fare thee weel, my only luve, And fare thee weel a while! And I will come again, my luve, Tho' it were ten thousand mile!
And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the black-eyed peas "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge
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With a load of iron ore - 26,000 tons more Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed When the gales of November came early
The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from some mill in Wisconson As the big freighters go it was bigger than most With a crew and the Captain well seasoned.
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which contains five syllables, the second line seven syllables, and the third line five syllables. The first two lines usually introduce an image, and the third line makes an unusual but charged connection.
Examples:
Lines 1, 2, and 5 of limericks have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 of limericks have five to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.
There was an Old Person of Buda, Whose conduct grew ruder and ruder; Till at last, with a hammer, They silenced his clamour, By smashing that Person of Buda.
There was an Old Lady of Chertsey, Who made a remarkable curtsey; She twirled round and round, Till she sunk underground, Which distressed all the people of Chertsey.
nor can those watchers who pronounce the one is dead and the other born
say with certainty of what they saw before them any more than this
Lets check out some examples of each, and how each serves the intention of the poet.
Lets re-examine the previous poems to determine how many feet of each rhythm there are in a line of the poem.