Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Lines


Definition: A combination of words in a single line.

Example:
You are the best teacher for yourself. [A line => A sentence]
Linda - ME!

Significance: We use lines to break down the poem into many parts. A poem can't be a poem without lines. Lines create poems. When we go to a next line, the reader will have time to stop and think about the previous lines.

Onomatopoeia


Definition: The words that describe the sound of something.

Example:
Crack an Egg
Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.

Stoke the heat.

Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.

Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in.
Denise Rodgers

Significance: We use onomatopoeia to demonstrate the sound of something. It will help the reader imagine the action, the sound better.

Assonance


Definition: Repetition of the vowel sounds

Example:
El Dorado
Gaily bedight,
A gallant night
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of El Dorado.
But he grew old -
This knight so bold -
And - o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like El Dorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow -
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be -
This land of El Dorado?"

"Over the mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied -
"If you seek for El Dorado!"
Edgar Allen Poe

Significance: We use assonance like we use alliteration. It will make our poems sound cooler, better and funnier. It will help the reader remember better and attracts more readers.

Alliteration


Definition: Repetition of the consonant sounds of two or more words in the poem

Example:

Laughing Lions

Laughing lions laugh
like jumping jaguars
on top of talking trees.
When
the
talking trees start
talking,
the joking
jaguars fall
off.

Rachel


Significance: We use alliteration because it is very creative and when we read it out loud, it sounds very cool and funny. We can write an alliteration sentence and keep reading it to help us in pronunciation.

Elegy


Definition: A sad poem that wrote for someone who had died

Example:
Where are you mom

Where are you Mom, where did you go

You have gone to a place I do not know

Your new world does not include me

It’s rather cloudy, from what I see

You sit there in your chair

With such a vacant empty stare

I wish I could bring back the better times

Love Buddy

Significance: We write elegy to dedicate to people who had died and that are important to you. You can show your love to them.

Couplet


Definition: Poems with two lines next to each other that rhymes.

Example:
On a Sea-Storm Nigh the Coast
The weighty seas are rowled from the deeps
In mighty heaps,
And from the rocks' foundations do arise
To kiss the skies.
Richard Steere

Significance: We use couplet as another type of rhyming poetry. It is easy for the reader to recognize the rhymes within the lines.

Interpretation


Definition: The way you understand poetry, your point of view of a poem.

Example:

Bonsai
All that I love
I fold over once
And once again
And keep in a box
Or a slit in a hollow post
Or in my shoe.

All that I love?
Why, yes, but for the moment-
And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps easy,
Son's note or Dad's one gaudy tie,
A roto picture of a queen,
A blue Indian shawl, even
A money bill.

It's utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart's control
Moment to moment
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand's size

Till seashells are broken pieces
From God's own bright teeth,
And life and love are real
Things you can run and
Breathless hand over
To the merest child.
Edith L. Tiempo


Significance: Each person has different interpretation for each poem. People see different things in different poems in different ways. Might be good, might be bad.