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What Is Poem?

- A poem is a form of creative writing in verse, using elements like rhyme, rhythm, and imagery. It can use rhyme and rhythm or be free of them. - Key elements of a poem include the speaker, tone, theme, setting, language techniques like metaphor, personification, and simile. - The example poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost uses techniques like imagery, symbolism, and personification to explore a theme of making choices and not having regrets. It establishes a speaker and contemplative tone.

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What Is Poem?

- A poem is a form of creative writing in verse, using elements like rhyme, rhythm, and imagery. It can use rhyme and rhythm or be free of them. - Key elements of a poem include the speaker, tone, theme, setting, language techniques like metaphor, personification, and simile. - The example poem "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost uses techniques like imagery, symbolism, and personification to explore a theme of making choices and not having regrets. It establishes a speaker and contemplative tone.

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What is a poem?

- Creative writing in verse (lines arranged in group)


- Write with rhyme & rhythm
- Free verse no rhyme & rhythm (ex: Heir Conditioning)


Definition of Rhyme:
The repetition of sounds at the ends of words.


The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Definition of Rhythm:
The beat in a poem;the musical quality in language produced by repetition or
emphasis.

From:
Because I Could Not Stop For Death, by Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.


STRESSED and UNstressed syllables.
ICE cream
I SCREAM



Elements of a Poem

Speaker/ persona:
The character who speaks, or narrates, a poem.

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (Stanza 1)


Tone & Mood:
The emotional attitude toward the reader or subject implied by the poem.
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (Stanza 1 & 2)

Theme ideal poet wishes to express (ex: Making choice)
Moral Values moral values & advice on some issues poet wishes to share (ex: No
regrets to choices you made.)
Settings time & place of the story - past, present or future; denotes the social
environment of the time (ex: Heir Conditioning)


Language & Style
Imagery:
Language that appeals to the senses.

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (Stanza 1)


Symbolism:
The use of an object or action with the intent of representing something beyond the
object itself.

The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (Stanza 1)

Simile:
A comparison of two unlike things using "like" or "as".
as blind as a bat completely blind
as big as an elephant very big
as free as a bird very free to go anywhere



Metaphor:

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used in place of another to suggest an
analogy or likeness between them. Does not use "like" or "as".
Broken heart - Your heart is not literally broken into pieces; you just feel hurt and sad.
Time is a thief - Time isn't really stealing anything, this metaphor just indicates that time
passes quickly and our lives pass us by.
It's raining men - Men do not literally pour from the sky; there are simply an abundance of
male suitors around at the time.
The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost (Stanza 1)


Personification:
A figure of speech in which an animal, an object or an idea is given human form or
characteristics.
Hope is the Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson

"Hope" is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all,

Shall I compare thee to a summer's
day? (Sonnet 18)
By William Shakespeare

SONNET 18 PARAPHRASE
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: You are more lovely and more constant:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, Rough winds shake the beloved buds of May
And summer's lease hath all too short a date: And summer is far too short:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, At times the sun is too hot,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; Or often goes behind the clouds;
And every fair from fair sometime declines, And everything beautiful sometime will lose its
beauty,
By chance, or nature's changing course,
untrimm'd;
By misfortune or by nature's planned out course.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade But your youth shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor will you lose the beauty that you possess;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, Nor will death claim you for his own,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st; Because in my eternal verse you will live forever.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long as there are people on this earth,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee. So long will this poem live on, making you
immortal.

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