On children
- musical rhythm is felt and yields movement
Poetry as a set of tools
- External form* (the stanza)
- Internal sound and imagery
Form* of Poetry
Narrative poetry (a story in verse)
- Ballad
- straightforward; easy to understand; frequently tragic and plaintive setting, character, events with a climax; beginning, middle, end character motivation and possibly character development; underlying theme typically follows a four-line scheme with second and fourth lines rhyming
- Epic poems (The Iliad, The Song of Hiawatha, The Highwayman
Lyric poetry (describes a feeling; intellectual or emotional response to a subject; usually focus on one experience; are usually brief; depend heavily on musical and rhythmical qualities)
- Haiku
- 17 syllables divided into three lines; usually about nature or peoplešs relationship to nature; uses metaphor to look at an ordinary event in a new, imaginative way; Japanese
- Cinquain
- five-line stanza of 2, 4, 6, 8, 2 syllables respectively; medieval origin (5 lines)
- Concrete poetry
- words arranged to form a pictorial representation of the subject of the poem
- Limerick
- six-line humorous poem; first, second, and fifth lines rhyming; and the third and fourth rhyming [AABBA]
- Free verse
- no pre-set rules; may hve rhyming and rhythmical pattern; 20th century
Language of Poetry
...uses strong, vigorous words or evocative, rich words or delicate, precise words that define with accuracy
- Imagery (mental pictures created by the words)
- Direct images--visual (sight), tactile (touch) auditory (sound), olfactory (smell),
gustatory (taste)
- Indirect images--simile (like or as comparison), metaphor (implied or is a
comparison), personification (gives life qualities to inanimate objects, idea, forces
of nature; metaphorical by nature)
- Sound
- Rhythm (pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a poem; called meter;
smallest unit called a foot)
- Iamb (two syllables with the emphasis on the second)
- Trochee (two syllables with emphasis on the first)
- Anapest (three syllables with emphasis on the last)
- Dactyl (three syllables with emphasis on the first)
- Rhyme (similarity of sound between two or more words)
- Alliteration--repetition of initial sounds in two or more words
- Assonance--repetition of identical vowel sounds
- Consonance--repetition of consonant sounds within words
POETRY INDEXES
Granger's Index to poetry (also Index to poetry)
[indexes anthologies by first line and title of poems]
SCSU Reference PN1022.G8
The Columbia Granger's index to poetry
[indexes anthologies by first line and title of poems]
SCSU Reference PN1022.H39
Last lines : an index to the last lines of poetry
SCSU Reference PN1022.K55
Master index to poetry: an index to poetry in anthologies & collections
SCSU Reference PN1022 .M37
Spoken poetry on records and tapes: an index of currently available recordings
SCSU Reference Z674.A75
Subject index to poetry; a guide for adult readers
SCSU Reference PN1021.B7
CHILDRENS POETRY INDEXES
Subject index to poetry for children and young people.
SCSU Reference PN1023.A5
Children's poetry index
[indexes anthologies by first line, subject, author, and title of poems]
SCSU Reference PN1023.M25
Index to children's poetry
[indexes anthologies of poems for children and youth by first line, subject, author, and title of poems]
SCSU Reference PN1023.B7
Index to poetry for children and young people
[indexes anthologies of poems for children and young people by first line, subject, author, and title of poems]
SCSU Reference PN1023.B723
