Writing about
poetry helps both the reading and the responding process.
Responding:
Remembering and Reflecting.
Poetry makes
you more articulate and more sensitive to both ideas and feelings.
More importantly, it makes you a better reader of texts and a precise
writer yourself.
Half rhyme:
not complete rhymes. This is a complete rhyme [May- Fay] this is a half rhyme [bader-
bedoor]
Sonnets:
is a fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines.
-Italian Sonnet: a
sonnet form that divides the poem, into one section of eight lines and a second
section of six lines, usually following the abbaabba cdecde rhyme scheme. It has
a generalization and a particular instance.
-English Sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into 3
sections of quatrains [a verse with 4 lines] then a couplet [a verse with 2
lines]. It is usually in this rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.
Ode:
A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and
having an elevated style and formal stanza-ic structure. In other words, this is
a long poem with rhymes. It normally talks about a natural subject like animals.
Elegy:
this is a mournful poem; a lament for the dead. It talks about a death.
Lyric:
this is a poem that gives off a strong emotion or intense feeling.
Pastoral:
Country poem with subjects of Shepard.
Time Line
500 B.C.E à
600 C.E CLASSICAL
Greek and
Romans
600 C.E à
1300 C.E MIDDLE AGES / MEDIEVAL
Europe
entirely
14th
C.E à
16th C.E RENAISSANCE / REBIRTH
Italy
17th
C.E à
18th C.E NEO-CLASSICAL / ORDER AND REASON
Germany,
France and England
18th
C.E à
19th C.E ROMANTIC / GENERAL FEELINGS
England
19th
C.E à
20th VICTORIAN / INDUSTRIALIZATION
British
Empire
20th
C.E à
21st C.E MODERN / NO RHYME, NO PLOT