My

Book

of

Poetry

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My introduction to the Poetry notebook. . .1

Language of Literature: Great Poets and Poetry worksheets…___

Types of Poetry I have researched, what they are,   guidelines to writing these types and a published example:___

  Ballads . . .___

Haiku . . .___

Prose/ Free Verse poetry . . .___

Rhyming poetry . . .___

Sonnet . . . ___

My personal favorites: Poems written by me! . . . ___

The Poet, his/her life and example of the

poetry and my own imitation poem. . .___

Poetry Vocabulary List . . . ___

Bibliography:  All of my sources . . .___

v     All responses need to be in complete sentences and written in ink or typed.

1. Who does her poem speak to (audience or reader)?

2. What lesson does she hope the reader will learn from the poem? (Interpretation)

3. How many poems did she write?

4. When did Emily Dickinson become popular?

5. Internet search: Why did it take so long for her to become a recognized American poet?

1. What does the poem encourage the reader to do?

2. What is your favorite stanza (copy it down) and why?

3. What makes Walt Whitman’s poetry different from poetry of the time?

4. Internet search: Many of Whitman’s poems are sad.  What major event during his lifetime may have affected his writings?

5. Being a poet is not such an easy occupation.  What was it like for Walt Whitman?   (Use examples of the jobs he had over the years to support himself in your response)

1. What does the rhyme pattern of the poem suggest to the reader?

2. After reading Build a Background on page 196, why do you think Frost chose this as a topic for his poems?

3. When did Robert Frost first start writing? (page 200)

4. What honors has Frost received?  What can you assume by this, number and type of accolades?

5. What was the poem that Robert Frost read at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy?   Why did he pick that one? (Internet search)

1. How does the poet use examples from nature to help the reader understand the speaker’s feelings?

2. What speaks to you in this poem? 

3. What life experiences have you had that helps you to relate to this?  Be specific.

4. How old was she when she won national recognition for her readings (page 205)?

5. What is the source or inspiration for her writings?

1. What does “unfettered” mean as the poet uses it?

2. What does “vast horizons of the soul” mean?

3. How does this poem relate to you and your dreams?

4. What does the quote on page 36 “Books began to happen to me….” mean?

5. What distinguishes Langston Hughes from other African American writers of his day?

1. What is the definition of the word scaffolding?

2. Based on the definition, what is the poem trying to get the reader to think about? What symbols does the poet use?

3. What (personal or historic) influences are apparent in Heaney’s poetry? (page 237)

4. What does the quote with his biography mean about the author and his work?

1. Build a Background (page 299):  Why do you think that a poem about baseball is so compelling to Americans?

2. What is the lesson to be learned from the poem?

3. What is your favorite lines or stanza (copy) and why?

4. What was Thayer’s education background and experience in writing? (page 304)

1. Why do you think that Lewis Carroll used so many made up or nonsensical words in his poem?

2. List three silly words and give them your own definitions based on how they are used in the poem.( word: definition)

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3. Since what age was Lewis Carroll making up nonsense stories? (page 462)

4. What unlikely job did he get considering his propensity for nonsense and where did he get after finishing school?

1. Find three metaphors and list below.  (page # “ complete metaphor…” )

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2. Summarize the poem and explain why this is a romantic poem.

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3. What is the tragedy of the poem?

4.How old was Noyes when he wrote this and what was his tragedy in life? (page 571)

1. There is something that everyone always says about elephants.  What is it?

2. How does the answer to number one apply to the poem.?

3. How could this apply to yourself or others?

4. Building Background: What personal experience does Kipling bring to his poem?

(define) Cinquain, despite its French name, is an American poetry form that can be traced back to Adelaide Crapsey.  Crapsey, influenced by Japanese haiku, developed this poetic system and used it to express brief thoughts and statements. Other poets who popularized the form were Carl Sandburg and Louis Utermeyer. While the form does not have the extensive popularity of haiku, it is often taught in public schools to children because of the form's brief nature.

             Most cinquain poems consist of a single, 22 syllable stanza, but they can be combined into longer works. A cinquain consists of five lines. The first line has two syllables, the second line has four syllables, the third line has  six syllables and the fourth line has eight syllables, the final line has two syllables.  The line length is the only firm rule, but there are other guidelines that people have tried to impose from time to time.

Cinquain Guidelines (how to write it)

            Write in iambs (Two syllable groupings in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second syllable  stressed. For Example: i DRANK she SMILED we TALKED i THOUGHT)

For the last line of the cinquain, however, both syllables should be stressed, NICE BAR.

            Write about a noun. Cinquains generally fail if you try to make them about emotions, philosophies or other complex subjects. They should be about something concrete.  Don’t try to make each line complete or express a single thought. Each line should flow into the next or the  poem will sound static.  Cinquains work best if you avoid adjectives and adverbs. This doesn’t mean you can’t have any, but focus on the nouns and the verbs. This almost always works best in a cinquain. The poem should build toward a climax. The last line should serve as some sort of conclusion to the earlier

thoughts. Often, the conclusion has some sort of surprise built into it.

                     One possible, but not required, format is as follows

                     Line 1: Title Noun

                     Line 2: Description

                     Line 3: Action

                     Line 4: Feeling or Effect

                     Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun.

Example: (a published example with the author’s name )

“Release”

by Adelaide Crapsey

                                                With swift

                                                Great sweep of her

                                                Magnificent arm my pain

                                                Clanged back the doors that shut my soul

                                                From life.

Source: Cinquiain. Shadowpoetry.  www.shadowpoetry.com 

James Joyce: Irish Poet in Exile

(An Interesting Title here)

James Joyce was born in 1882 to a wealthy family living in Dublin.  His father squandered the family money and they spent their time moving from lodging to lodging. Joyce went to school and college with mostly affluent children and longed for that stability in life.  (Early Life – Family – Education)

He married a girl from Galway, named Nora, and spent most of his adult life living away from Ireland.  However most of his novels and works take place in Ireland and notably Dublin.  (What the poet wrote about, major works and awards)

James Joyce was in Europe during World War II, moving around Vichy France until he could escape to neutral Zurich, Switzerland.  He fell ill, contracted peritonitis and died January 13^th, 1941.  (The end or recent history of the poet’s life.)

Sample of the Poet’s Work (you must select a poem that you can also use in your power point)

“Flood”
by James Joyce

Gold brown upon the sated flood
The rock vine clusters lift and sway;
Vast wings above the lambent waters brood
Of sullen day.

A waste of waters ruthlessly
Sways and uplifts its weedy mane
Where brooding day stares down upon the sea
In dull disdain.

Uplift and sway, O golden vine,
Your clustered fruits to love's full flood,
Lambent and vast and ruthless as is thine
Incertitude!

Student Imitation of James Joyce’s poem

(Here!)

Bibliography:

James Joyce Centre, Dublin , Ireland, http://www.jamesjoyce.ie/templates/text_contents.aspx?page_id=294

“Flood” by James Joyce http://www.love-poems.me.uk/joyce_james_flood.htm

1. Acrostics

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2. Alliteration

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3. Ballad

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4. Blank verse

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5. Classicism or classical

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6. Cinquain

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7. Consonance

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8. Couplet

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9. Elegy

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10. Epic

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11. Epistle

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12. Farce

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13. Foot

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14. Free verse

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15. Haiku

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16. Iambic pentameter

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17. Irony

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18. Limerick

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19. Lyric poetry

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20. Meter (in poetry)

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21. Mock epic

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22. Ode

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23. Onomatopea

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24. Parody

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25. Pastoralism

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26. Rhyme

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27. Rhythm (in poetry)

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28. Romanticism

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29. Satire

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30. Sonnet

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31. symbol

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32. Theme

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33. Tragedy

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34. Utopian

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Poetry Notebook Grading Rubric