Poetry

Poetry

Understanding poetry
Understanding poetry
New vocabulary
New vocabulary

• Imagery- language that produces pictures in the mind of the person reading
• Metaphor- a phrase used in an imaginative way to show that one thing has the same
qualities as the other
• Personification-the practice of giving human qualitiesto an animal, object or thing
• Poem- a piece of writing arranged in short lines
• Rhyme-a regular repeated pattern or sound
• Simile- a phrase that compares one thing to another using the words „like” or „as”
• Stanza-a group of lines that form a unit of a poem
• Symbol-an object that represents something
• Theme- the subject of a piece of writing
• Verse- a piece of writing arranged in short lines
Touchscreen(page 114.)
• Slam poetry
• Slam poetry became popular in Chicago in 1986. The first slam poems
were performed in a club called Greenmill Lounge, where jazz
musicians usually played. This poetry, which can be performed by
anyone, provided a new way for people to get their message across.
• It encouraged ordinary people to tell their stories or talk about social
issues.
Touchscreen - YouTube video of a poem

• https://youtu.be/GAx845QaOck
Touchscreen – a slam poem
• Marshall Soulful Jones, who wrote this poem, came second in the
National Poetry Slam in Boston.
• His poem was about technology, he is referring to social media and
their influence on our lives.
• The Apple iPerson is someone who owns an electronic device and
uses it to communicate, this person has got 3000 friends in the digital
world and five in the real one
• The poet hopes that technology will teach us to communicate in the
real world again.
MUSIC, ART, AND LITERATURE WORDS
Some important words from the fields of art,literature, and music.

• Alliteration-the repetition of the same first sound in a group of words

• Artist-a person who creates works of art such as drawings, paintings,
sculpture, architecture, music,literature, drama, and dance
• audience-people gathered to see and hear something, especially a play,
or concert
• author-a person who writes something, such as a book or story
• composer-a person who puts notes together to create a piece of music
design-an arrangement of lines,shapes, patterns, and colors
• musician-a person trained or skilled in music, especially one who plays
an instrument
• narrator-the person in a story who tells what happened
MUSIC, ART, AND LITERATURE WORDS
Some important words from the fields of art,literature, and music.

• orchestra-a large group of musicians playing together

• photograph-a picture made with a camera
• pianist-one who plays the piano
• playwright-a person who writes plays; also called a dramatist
• poem-a piece of writing having rhythm and, often, rhyme; usually
in a style of language that has more feeling and description than usual
• writing or speech
• rhyme-words that have the same end sounds, such as cat and hat
• scenery-the background structures used to decorate a stage during a play
• symphony-a long piece of music written for an orchestra
• theater-a place where plays are performed or movies are shown
Fill in the gaps with appropriate words. First letter is given.

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• 1. In Shakespeare’s day, nobles and commoners alike loved going to
• the t__________________ to watch plays performed.
• 2. Shakespeare was the English p__________________ who wrote Romeo and Juliet and
Hamlet
• 3.o__________________ played a s__________________ written by the famous
c__________________, Ludwig von Beethoven.
• 4. In a p__________________ the last words of every other line often
• r__________________.
• 5. The a__________________ painted a picture of the beautiful garden.
• 6. The painting looked nearly as real as a p__________________ taken with a camera.
• 7. The a__________________ rose from their seats at the end of the play.
William Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded
as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest
dramatist.He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or
simply "the Bard").His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some
39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of
uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major
living language and are performed more often than those of any other
playwright.
Shakespeare Day in the United Kingdom

• Many fans and enthusiasts of William Shakespeare, who was one of

England’s greatest poets and dramatists, celebrate National
Shakespeare Day, also known as Shakespeare Day, on April 23 each
year. April 23 is also St George’s Day and the
United Nations’ World Book and Copyright Day, which was a natural
choice to pay a worldwide tribute to writers such as Shakespeare.
The Sonnets are Shakespeare's most popular works, and a few of them, such as Sonnet 18
(Shall I compare thee to a summer's day), Sonnet 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds),
and Sonnet 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold), have become the most widely-read
poems in all of English literature.

• Sonnet 130
• My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
• Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
• If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
• If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
• I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
• But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
• And in some perfumes is there more delight
• Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
• I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
• That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
• I grant I never saw a goddess go;
• My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
• And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
• As any she belied with false compare.
• Thank you for your attention!