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Chapter One--

What is Poetry?
Perrine’s Structure, Sound, and
Sense
Coach Adams
Fall 2006
5 things poetry is:
• It is universal.
• It is timeless.
• It is ageless.
• It is understanding
• It is entertainment.
One thing poetry’s not:

• It is not easy.
• So why don’t poems just say what
they mean?
– language communicates information
– literature communicates experience…
when was the last time you experienced
a fact? You experience feelings and
events.
“The Eagle,” p. 525
• Compare to the article in paragraph 2 of the
facing page.
• The poem communicates a significant
experience
• the poem does more than analyze--it synthesizes
information and feeling
• the poem presents an experience many will
never have
• if the poem presents something you’re familiar
with, it does so in a way that deepens that
experience.
2 ideas that ruin poetry
• 1. All literature teaches a moral
lesson (or should).
• 2. All literature is beautiful and happy
(or should be).
• “Dulce et Decorum Est,” p. 527
• Answer the questions in groups
Why aren’t all poems beautiful?
• All experience (even painful ones) can
be made enjoyable through art…think
horror movies. They’re not happy
stories, and yet we love them. Why?
• Catharsis: the emotional outpouring felt
by the audience of a play, story, or
poem…Because the work makes us
feel those emotions, we can identify
more fully with its characters
To understand life is to take
mastery of life...
• Which is the goal of literature (and
should be our goal as individuals).

• The Official Motto: poetry is only


boring and dull to dull and boring
minds...
“The Whipping,” p. 531
• Discuss the questions on the next page.
• Identify words that convey more than
facts…
• “The Computation,” 532.
• All questions on your own…no matter
how long it takes.
Three for you...
• “The Two Ravens”
• “Ballad of Birmingham”
• “The Red Wheelbarrow”
• all questions
• Two for us:
• “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”
• 1-3, 5-6
• “Ars Poetica”
• 1-2

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