What is poetry

- Everyone can write a poem

- Writing in pro hould be art
- İf you have talent you dont need education
- Pleasure enjoyment poet as a spokes person, reflects our souls
Poetry is : Feelings and experiences, rhyme, order, rules, expression of feelings, export of
inner world

Objectivity reason form (18 neoclas)

Subjectivity, natüre, feelings (19 romantic era reacted to neoclas)
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The Eagle
BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.

The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;

He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.

- This short poem describes an eagle perched watchfully above a grand

- landscape, ready to hunt. When at last the bird spots its prey and attacks, it descends
like a “thunderbolt,” a figure of awe-inspiring power (and one with all sorts of
mythological connotations, evoking the might of gods like Zeus and Thor).
- The poem's speaker presents the eagle as a masterful figure in a sweeping landscape.
Perched haughtily above the wide “azure world,” this eagle surveys his terrain like a
god. 
- the poem suggests that being amazed by nature also means approaching its power with
respect and humility (and a little wholesome fear)
Break of Day
John Donne

This somewhat unusual dramatic monologue is written in sestets from a

female perspective. Readers only hear the woman’s perspective and have only her
words of concern regarding her relationship to understand how the two function as
a couple. It seems clear that the woman is far more dedicated to working on their
love than the man is. In ‘Break of Day,’ the day signals to the male partner that it’s
time to leave his lover and return to his job. 

‘Tis true, ‘tis day, what though it be?

O wilt thou therefore rise from me?
Why should we rise because ‘tis light?
Did we lie down because ‘twas night?
Love, which in spite of darkness brought us hither,
Should in despite of light keep us together.

Light hath no tongue, but is all eye;

If it could speak as well as spy,
This were the worst that it could say,
That being well I fain would stay,
And that I loved my heart and honour so,
That I would not from him, that had them, go.

Must business thee from hence remove?

Oh, that’s the worst disease of love,
The poor, the foul, the false, love can
Admit, but not the busied man.
He which hath business, and makes love, doth do
Such wrong, as when a married man doth woo.
Themes 
The main theme of this poem is love. Specifically, the speaker is concerned with how a busy
man, her lover, deals with their love affair. He treats their love as a married man would treat
his mistress—secondary. She’s always going to come after his work. 

Meaning 
The meaning is that a man who is busy/dedicated to his work is a worse lover than anyone
else. He is always going to put his partners second to his work. The speaker asks her partner
several rhetorical questions, challenging his decision to leave their bed at the break of the day
and return to work. She doesn’t believe that just because the sun has risen that their love-
making or time together should end. 

Structure and Form 

‘Break of Day’ by John Donne is a three-stanza poem divided into sets of six lines. These
sestets are composed of rhyming couplets. For example, “be” and “me” and “light” and
“night” in stanza one. 

The first four lines of each stanza are written in iambic tetrameter, while the final two
lines, aside from a few exceptions, are written in iambic pentameter. 

Literary Devices 
Throughout this poem, the poet makes use of several literary devices. These include but are
not limited to:

 Assonance: the repetition of the same vowel sounds in multiple words. For example,
“O wilt thou therefore rise from me” uses the same “o” sound. 
  Imagery: the use of particularly effective descriptions that should inspire the reader’s
senses. For example, “Why should we rise, because ’tis light? / Did we lie down,
because ’twas night?”
Personification: occurs when the poet imbues something non-human with human
characteristics. For example, “Light hath no tongue, but is all eye; / If it could speak
as well as spy.” 
 Consonance: occurs when the poet repeats the same consonant sound in multiple
words, for example, the “s” in “Should in spite of light keep us together.” 
 Alliteration: the repetition of the same consonant sound at the beginning of multiple
words. For example, “thou therefore” in line two of stanza one and “him” and “had”
in line six of stanza two. 
To Daffodils”

1Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

2You haste away so soon;
3As yet the early-rising sun
4Has not attain'd his noon.
5Stay, stay,
6Until the hasting day
7Has run
8But to the even-song;
9And, having pray'd together, we
10Will go with you along.
11We have short time to stay, as you,
12We have as short a spring;
13As quick a growth to meet decay,
14As you, or anything.
15We die
16As your hours do, and dry
17Away,
18Like to the summer's rain;
19Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
20Ne'er to be found again.

 In “To Daffodils,” the speaker mourns how quickly life fades.

 Read as a metaphor, this plea conveys the speaker's own anxiety about
dying before they've had the chance to fully experience life.
 The speaker then compares the fleeting beauty of the daffodils to the “short”
lives of human beings, acknowledging that this is simply the way things are
in nature.
 Time flies; beauty fades. Overall, the poem laments, yet accepts the fact that
all life, no matter how lovely, is temporary.
 In saying that these early bloomers “haste away too soon” (or disappear too
quickly), the speaker is metaphorically expressing their own fear of dying
early.
 As a metaphor, this suggests that the speaker is afraid they, too, will die
before achieving their full potential.
 The speaker also seems to find acceptance through speaking to the daffodils.
Rather than focusing on the unfairness of how short life is, the speaker
implicitly acknowledges that human life is no different from the rest of
nature and that there is therefore no sense in fighting the inevitable. By
observing the daffodils, who aren't sentient and therefore aren't filled with
anxiety around their own mortality, the speaker comes to accept the fact that
everything living must eventually "meet decay."

To autumn
  Autumn is personified and is perceived in a state of activity. In the first stanza,
autumn is a friendly conspirator working with the sun to bring fruits to a state
of perfect fullness and ripeness. In the second stanza, autumn is a thresher
sitting on a granary floor, a reaper asleep in a grain field, a gleaner crossing a
brook, and, lastly, a cider maker. In the final stanza, autumn is seen as a
musician, and the music which autumn produces is as pleasant as the music
of spring — the sounds of gnats, lambs, crickets, robins and swallows.

 Romanticism is a literary movement that peaked during the period

of 1785 to 1832. Pioneers of Romantic poetry in English
include Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
and John Keats. This literary movement is known for its focus on
truth, nature, and the passionate expression of emotion.

 ‘To Autumn’ is a highly sensuous poem that brings the season to life
through the sights, smells, and sounds of autumn. This poem
narrates the passing of both a glorious autumn day and the season
itself.

 The immortality of the cycle of the seasons serves as a reminder of

the mortality of humans.

A) Who is the speaker? What kind of person is he?

B) To whom is he speaking?
C) What is the occasion?
D) What is the setting time?
E) What is the setting in place?
F) What is the central purpose of the poem?
G) State the central purpose of the poem?
H) Discuss the tone of the poem in a sentence?
I) Summarize the events of the poem?
J) Paraphrase the poem (what do you understand)
K) Discuss the imagery of poem. What kinds of imagery are used
L) Point out examples of metaphor, simile, personafication, and metonymy
M) Point out significan texamples of sound repetition and explain their function
N) What is the meter of the poem