Journal 8: Couplet

A couplet is a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.  Using The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer as an example, create your own couplet poem.  The poem should be at least 14 lines long and establish a repeating meter. Incorporate as many poetic devices as possible.   

Journal 7: Narrative Poem

Write a 12 line (minimum) narrative poem for Wednesday. 

Use three poetic devices: 

Rhymes: slant; masculine; feminine; end; Simile; Metaphor; Personification; Symbolism; Imagery; Onomatopoeia; Alliteration; Assonance; Consonance; Allusion; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Hyperbole; Oxymoron; Allegory; Paradox; Understatement; Litotes; Irony; Caesura, Pun, Denotation, Connotation.

Journal 6: Free Verse: Read "The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot" and create your own free verse poem (DUE MONDAY)

Free verse is an open form (see Poetry analysis) of poetry that does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any other musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Although free verse requires no meter, rhyme, or other traditional poetic techniques, a poet can still use them to create some sense of structure. A clear example of this can be found in Walt Whitman's poems, where he repeats certain phrases and uses commas to create both a rhythm and structure. Much pattern and discipline is to be found in free verse: the internal pattern of sounds, the choice of exact words, and the effect of associations give free verse its beauty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_verse

1. Construct your own free verse poem using 4 of the following devices.  LABEL EACH DEVICE IN YOUR POEM!

Rhymes: slant; masculine; feminine; end; Simile; Metaphor; Personification; Symbolism; Imagery; Onomatopoeia; Alliteration; Assonance; Consonance; Allusion; Metonymy; Synecdoche; Hyperbole;  Paradox; Understatement; Litotes; Irony; Caesura, Enjambment.

2. Annotate/Analyze the text with 8 comments on language (foreign), poetic devices, allusions, or textual interpretations.   Write the information in your journal (minimum 3/4 page).  Refer to page, stanza, line, etc. when you are making a reference to the text.

Unit 10 Vocabulary: #1-10 due Thurs. Feb. 21, #11-20 Tues. Feb. 26

#1-10

askance, attenuate, benign, cavil, charlatan, decimate, foible, forgo, fraught, inure

#11-20

luminous, obsequious, obtuse, oscillate, penitent, peremptory, rebuff, reconnoiter, shambles, sporadic

Journal 5: Sonnet

Use three of the following poetic devices in your poem.

o  Paradox- seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth.

§  Crocodile dilemma

o  Understatement – an expression of less strength than expected

o  Caesura- a complete pause in a line of poetry, a break, usually near the middle of a verse.  IT adds variety to the beat/meter of a poem

o  Enjambment – the breaking/continuation of one line of poetry from line to the next with no syntactical pause.

o  Litotes – a type of understatement, most commonly using an double negative. i.e. you are not a bad teacher.  That wasn’t too weak of an effort.  Not bad!

o  assonance- vowel sounds that rhyme

o  consonance- consonant sounds that rhyme

o  allusion- a reference to a well-known historical work/event

o  alliteration- initial sounds/syllables are repeated

metonymy/synecdoche- substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing, for the thing itself/a part that is substituted for a whole.

Sonnet

(sonn-IT): a sonnet is a distinctive poetic style that uses system or pattern of metrical structure and verse composition usually consisting of fourteen lines, arranged in a set rhyme scheme or pattern. There are two main styles of sonnet, the Italian sonnet and the English sonnet. The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, named after Petrarch (1304-1374) a fourteenth century writer and the best known poet to use this form, was developed by the Italian poet Guittone of Arezzo (1230-1294) in the thirteenth century. Usually written in iambic pentameter, it consists first of an octave, or eight lines, which asks a question or states a problem or proposition and follows the rhyme scheme a-b-b-a, a-b-b-a. The sestet, or last six lines, offers an answer, or a resolution to the proposed problem, and follows the rhyme scheme c-d-e-c-d-e.

When I consider how my light is spent                                                  a

Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,                                      b

And that one talent which is death to hide                                           b

Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent                            a

To serve therewith my Maker, and present                                           a

My true account, lest he returning chide;                                              b

"Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?"                                            b

I fondly ask; but Patience to prevent                                                      a

That murmur, soon replies, "God doth not need                                   c

Either man's work or his own gifts; who best                                       d

Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state                               e

Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed                                              c

And post o'er land and ocean without rest:                                           d

They also serve who only stand and wait."                                           e

John Milton, "When I Consider How My Light Is Spent"

The sonnet was first brought to England by Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, in the sixteenth century, where the second sonnet form arose. The English or Shakespearean sonnet was named after William Shakespeare (1564-1616) who most believed to the best writer to use the form. Adapting the Italian form to the English, the octave and sestet were replaced by three quatrains, each having its own independent rhyme scheme typically rhyming every other line, and ending with a rhyme couplet. Instead of the Italianic break between the octave and the sestet, the break comes between the twelfth and thirteenth lines. The ending couplet is often the main thought change of the poem, and has an epigrammatic ending. It follows the rhyme scheme a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g.

 

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?                                             a

  Thou art more lovely and more temperate:                                        b

  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,                                                 a

  And summer’s lease hath all to short a date:                                     b

  Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,                                      c

  And often is his gold complexion dimm’d:                                          d

  And every fair from fair sometime declines,                                       c

  By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimm’d.                          d

  By thy eternal summer shall not fade                                                                 e

  Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;                                       f

  Nor shall Death brag thou wandered in his shade,                             e

  When in eternal lines to time thou growest:                                      f

  So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,                                     g

  So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.                                      g

Shakespeare, Sonnet XVIII. See Benet’s Readers Encyclopedia, Handbook to Literature, Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Michael Prevatte, Student, University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Ode: Due Friday. I will collect journals on Friday.

Create an ode of 10 lines minimum.  Use at least 3 of the following 4 poetic devices.

·       Literary devices

o  Paradox- seems self-contradictory but expresses a possible truth.

§  Crocodile dilemma

o  Understatement – an expression of less strength than expected

o  Caesura- a complete pause in a line of poetry, a break, usually near the middle of a verse.  IT adds variety to the beat/meter of a poem

o  Enjambment – the breaking/continuation of one line of poetry from line to the next with no syntactical pause.

 
Ode  - a celebratory poem pays homage to what the poet holds dear, another person, place, abstract idea etc.

NO QUIZ ON THURSDAY! Vocabulary for Unit 9. #1-10 due Tues. Feb. 12; #11-20 due Thurs. Feb. 14.

#1-10
acclamation
bucolic
calumniate
chary
collusion
dilettante
imperturbable
increment
mandate
paltry

#11-20

paroxysm
pedantry
peregrination
redolent
refulgent
shibboleth
tyro
unremitting
vacillate
vituperative

Villanelle: Due Wednesday Feb. 13th

The villanelle has no established meter, although most 19th-century villanelles have used trimeter or tetrameter and most 20th-century villanelles have used pentameter. The essence of the fixed modern form is its distinctive pattern of rhyme and repetition. The rhyme-and-refrain pattern of the villanelle can be schematized as A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2 where letters ("a" and "b") indicate the two rhyme sounds, upper case indicates a refrain ("A"), and superscript numerals (1 and 2) indicate Refrain 1 and Refrain 2.

Refrain 1 (A1)

Line 2 (b)

Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 4 (a)

Line 5 (b)

Refrain 1 (A1)

Line 7 (a)

Line 8 (b)

Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 10 (a)

Line 11 (b)

Refrain 1 (A1)

Line 13 (a)

Line 14 (b)

Refrain 2 (A2)

Line 16 (a)

Line 17 (b)

Refrain 1 (A1)

Refrain 2 (A2)

Mad Girl's Love Song

Refrain 1 (A1)                         I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

Line 2 (b)                                 I lift my lids and all is born again.

Refrain 2 (A2)                         (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Line 4 (a)                                 The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,

Line 5 (b)                                 And arbitrary blackness gallops in:

Refrain 1 (A1)                         I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

Line 7 (a)                                 I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed

Line 8 (b)                                 And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.

Refrain 2 (A2)                         (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Line 10 (a)                               God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade:

Line 11 (b)                               Exit seraphim and Satan's men:

Refrain 1 (A1)                         I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

Line 13 (a)                               I fancied you'd return the way you said,

Line 14 (b)                               But I grow old and I forget your name.

Refrain 2 (A2)                         (I think I made you up inside my head.)

Line 16 (a)                               I should have loved a thunderbird instead;

Line 17 (b)                               At least when spring comes they roar back again.

Refrain 1 (A1)                         I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

Refrain 2 (A2)                         (I think I made you up inside my head.)


Use 3 of the following 5 poetic devices in your poem.

Litotes – a type of understatement, most commonly using an double negative. i.e. you are not a bad teacher.  That wasn’t too weak of an effort.  Not bad!

assonance- vowel sounds that rhyme

consonance- consonant sounds that rhyme

allusion- a reference to a well-known historical work/event

metonymy/synecdoche- substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing, for the thing itself/a part that is substituted for a whole.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Girl%27s_Love_Song

Due Wednesday!

Elegy

Elegy In literature, an elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead.

Your elegy should include 4 of the following...

alliteration- initial sounds/syllables are repeated

assonance- vowel sounds that rhyme

consonance- consonant sounds that rhyme

allusion- a reference to a well-known historical work/event

metonymy/synecdoche- substitutes a word or phrase that relates to a thing, for the thing itself/a part that is substituted for a whole.

10 lines minimum.

New Vocab Format

Aberration (N):  synonym: deviation
                          antonym: conformity
                          definition: (1) a defect of focus such as a blurred image
                                          (2) a deviation from what is normal
sentence: The scientist looked at the aberration in the laboratory's test results after conducting the experiement.




List the word.  (Part of Speech):  Synonym:
                                                   Antonym:
                                                   Definition: (1) (2)
Sentence:

Journal 1: Feb. 5th, Lorca's Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias

Read pages 1009-1015.  Then write down two similes and two metaphors (four total) from the poem.  Explain the significance and comparisions that the similes and metaphors make. Finally, write the similes/metaphors in a simple manner (so that a 5th grader could understand).

1/2 page minimum.