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Poetry

Poetry. What is Poetry?. What it is, exactly, is less important than how it makes us feel. Eleanor Farjeon (1966) def . Not a rose, but the scent of the rose It’s a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than ordinary language. (Laurence Perrine).

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Poetry

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  1. Poetry

  2. What is Poetry? • What it is, exactly, is less important than how it makes us feel. Eleanor Farjeon (1966) def. • Not a rose, but the scent of the rose • It’s a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely • than ordinary language. (Laurence Perrine)

  3. Poetry by Eleanor Farjeon (1966) What is Poetry? Who Knows? Not a rose but the scent of the rose; Not the sky but the light in the sky; Not the fly but the gleam of the fly; Not the sea but the sound of the sea; Not myself but what makes me See, hear, and feel something that prose Cannot, what it is, who knows?

  4. Poetry… by Carl Sandburg is the opening and closingof a door,leaving thosewho look throughto guess aboutwhat was seenduring a moment

  5. Elements of Poetry • Rhythm • Rhyme and sound • Imagery • Figurative language: • Comparison and Contrast • personification • Shape • Emotional force, mood • Diction

  6. Diction • Word choice • Consider connotations and denotations • p. 3 With a wide mouth: 1) talkative, 2) odd looking • Latinate and Germanic Diction • Poetry is often associated with fancy or elaborate vocabulary. • Is French a more poetic language than German? • This need not be the case. Hesse uses simple, clear, unpretentious language • Much more Germanic or Anglo-Saxon than Latinate

  7. Latinate and Anglo-Saxon Diction • Old English is Germanic (Anglo-Saxon) in its forms, structures, and vocabulary. But at around 1100, the Normans invaded England causing French, a romance language (meaning it is derived from Latin) to mix with Old English. During the Renaissance(1400-1700), thousands more words were imported directly from Latin. • For this reason, English today mixes Germanic and Latinate roots. Often we can find pairs of words, near synonyms, of which one comes from an Anglo-Saxon root and one from a Latinate root. Sometimes there are three closely related words, one each from Anglo-Saxon, from Latin via French, and directly from Latin, as in kingly (Germanic), royal (from French roi), and regal (from Latin rex, regis). • As a (very rough) general rule, words derived from the Germanic ancestors of English are shorter, more concrete, and more direct, whereas Latinate words are longer and more abstract: compare, for instance, the Anglo-Saxon thinking with the Latinate cogitation. • Most “bad” language is of Anglo-Saxon ancestry: compare, for instance, shit (Germanic) with excrement (Latinate).

  8. Poetry for children • Like poetry for adults but may comment in a different way • Poetry that is cute, coy, nostalgic, or sarcastic might be about children, but it is not for them. (Charlotte Huck) • Didactic or preachy poems are usually not insightful or particularly enjoyable. • Micahel Rosen Speaks

  9. Poems can be funny

  10. The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess I never Saw a Purple Cow I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, Anyhow, I’d rather see than be one.

  11. The Burp by Anonymous • Pardon me for being rude.It was not me, it was my food.It got so lonely down below,it just popped up to say hello.

  12. Poems can be ironic

  13. The Vulture Hilaire Belloc The culture eats between his meals and that’s the reason why He very, very rarely feels As well as you and I. His eye is dull, his head is bald, His neck is growing thinner. Oh! What a lesson for us all To only eat at dinner

  14. Poems can be fun

  15. Betty Botter

  16. Poems are insightful

  17. Fog by Carl Sandburg The fog comes On little cat feet It sits looking Over harbor and city On silent haunches And then moves on

  18. Caterpillar Christina Rossetti Brown and furryCaterpillar in a hurry,Take your walkTo the shady leaf, or stalk,Or what not,Which may be the chosen spot.No toad spy you,Hovering bird of prey pass by you;Spin and die,To live again a butterfly.

  19. Poems can express serious feelings

  20. How to paint a donkey by Naomi Shihab Nye She said the head was too large, the hooves too small. I could clean my paintbrush but I couldn't get rid of that voice. While they watched, I crumpled him, let his blue body stain my hand. I cried when he hit the can. She smiled. I could try again. Maybe this is what I unfold in the dark, deciding, for the rest of my life, that donkey was just the right size.

  21. Which Lunch Table ? • Where do I sit?         All my friends         from last year          have changed;          my world is                 f r a c t u r e d                 l o p s i d e d                r e a r r a n g e d.          Where do I fit?          Nothing is clear.          Can already tell          this will be           a jigsaw year. Swimming Upstream: Middle School Poemsby Kristine O'Connell GeorgeClarion Books, 2002

  22. Poems can speak through their shapes(Concrete poems)

  23. "Breezes," by Court Smith, A concrete poem THE WINDLESS ORCHARD, 31, p. 12

  24. A Gentle Breeze

  25. People are always finding new ways to create poetry

  26. Arms by Dan Weber • http://www.vispo.com/guests/DanWaber/arms.htm • The poem uses the internet to create poetry in a new form.

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