INTRODUCTION TO POETRY

a piece of writing in which the

What words are arranged in separate
lines, often ending in rhyme
is the
poem?

Who is
the
poet?
The person who writes
the poem
?WHAT IS THE STANZA

A group of A line in
lines or a poem
verses
 FORM OF A POEM
Figures of speech and Sound devices

Alliteration  Personification
consonance  Metaphor
Rhyme scheme
Repetition
Assonance
 ?WHAT IS THE RHYME SCHEME

The last In winter I get up at

a
sound of night
And dress by yellow
words that candle-light a
carry In summer, quite the
alphabetized other way b
letters I have to go to
bed by day b
 ASSONANCE
 Assonance is defined as the act of repeating
a vowel sound in a phrase or sentence, often
in poetry. An example of assonance in a
sentence would be the repeated use of the
/oo/ sound in the sentence.
True, I do“
.”.like Sue

 Assonance can be used to make a poem

sound different.
 CONSONANCE

Repeating the
last sound of
some words in
the same verse

The leaves on the ground danced in the wind

 ALLITERATION
Repeating the
same sound of
some words in
the same
verse

The traffic lights yelled, ”Stop, slow, go

 REPETITION
Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea

It is to repeat the same words or phrases a few times

to make an idea clearer and more memorable.
PERSONIFICATION
METAPHOR
 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
FICTION(NOVEL /SHORT STORY) AND POETRY
Poetry Fiction
• It has themes. • It has themes.
• It has a limited characters. • It has characters.
• It has mood. • It has a mood.
• It has a setting. • It has setting.
• It has rhyme scheme. • plots generally include
• It has figures of speech and four stages: a conflict, the
imagination. rising action, the climax
• A poem has a plot, it progresses by and the resolution.
stanza and contains an exposition,
rising action, climax, falling action
and resolution. Poems with plots
aren’t limited by length or style; some
contain thousands of lines, while
others resemble a short story
SONNET 18

By
William Shakespeare
 ABOUT SHAKESPEARE

He was born in Stratford in 1564

He was a writer and an actor
In his lifetime, he wrote 31 plays
and154 sonnets.
 At the age of 18 he married Anne
Hathaway with whom he had three
children. He wrote different plays, drama
and poems. He died in his home town of
Stratford on 23 April 1616, aged 51
 ?WHAT IS A SONNET
It's a poem of 14 lines which
carries one personal idea; it
could be Italian "8 + 6 lines"
or Shakespearian "3
quatrains + a couplet"
 TYPES OF SONNETS

Italian sonnet Shakespearian Sonnet

It consists of 8 It consists of 3 quatrains

lines(an octet) (4 lines each) and a
and 6 lines couplet (two lines at the
(sestet) end of the same rhyme
that sum up the idea of
a poem)
It is written in Iambic Pentameter.
What is Iambic Pentameter?
 PARAPHRASE THE FIRST STANZA

The summer’s
wind is rough,
Q. clouds can
block the sun.
It’s too hot
A. and short.

Your
PARAPHRASE THE SECOND STANZA
People’s
beauty
doesn’t
last. They
get old as
time
.passes
PARAPHRASE THE THIRD STANZA
You will live
forever
because
your
memory will
live in this
poem and
will be read
.forever
FINAL COUPLET

Reason for her

eternity
 WHAT ARE THE FIGURES OF SPEECH IN THIS
?POEM

?Shall I compare thee to the summer’s day

repetition
Thou art more lovely and more temperate
consonance
,Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May

:And summer's lease hath all too short a date

 personification

,Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

personification
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd

alliteration repetition
,And every fair from fair sometime declines

alliteration

;By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimm'd

 Equation/ metaphor
,But they eternal summer shall not fade

alliteration
;Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest

personification

,Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade

;When in eternal lines to time thou growest

 repetition
,So long men can breath, or eyes can see

repetition

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

alliteration
consonance