Beruflich Dokumente
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Elements
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POETRY IS…
formed
• Example: Odyssey • Emphasis is on rules regarding rhythm,
rhyme, and meter.
• Self discovery, politics, and originality
EXAMPLES
MODERN POETRY
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EPIC POETRY le
“Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero
ELIZABETHAN POETRY af
who travelled far and wide after he had
“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
sacked the famous town of Troy…he fa
suffered much by sea while trying to save Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
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his own life and bring his men safely Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, s)
home… so the god prevented them from
ever reaching home….” And summer's lease hath all too short a date: one
iness
ELEMENTS
The essential or characteristic parts or aspects of poetry
LANGUAGE
• Simple to eloquent
• Heightened through compression, expansion,
omission, and repetition (FIGURATIVE)
• Connotation (FIGURATIVE)
• More nouns and verbs than adjectives and adverbs
TONE
• Atmosphere
• It is the feeling, attitude, stance, or the poet’s way of
looking at his subject.
• May be serious, bitter, joyful, etc.
IMAGERY
• Total sensory suggestion of poetry: visual, auditory,
tactile, gustatory, bodily
• Poet becomes an image- maker, one who reinforces
his thoughts through concrete words
• Metaphor suggests symbol, myth.
SOUND AND RHYTHM
• Poetic Feet/ Patterns (iamb, trochee, anapest, dactyl,
spondee)
• Line length/ meter (monometer, dimeter, trimeter,
tetrameter, pentameter, hexameter, heptameter,
octameter)
• Rhythm- Sounds characterized by the metrical stress
• Onomatopoeia
THOUGHT OR MEANING
• Iamb (x /) renew
• Trochee (/ x) double
• Anapest (x x /) intervene
• Dactyl (/ x x) tenderly
SUBSTITUTIVE FEET
• Spondee (/ /)
• Pyrrhic ( x x)
• used to supplement and vary a primary foot
x x / / x x / /
• And the white breast of the dim sea,
LINE LENGTH
Trochaic Tetramater
• And the sound of a voice that is still
Anapestic Trimeter
POETRY
Definition
Brief History
Elements
Metrics and Versification