Meter 15th post

Definition: Meter means pattern in poem.

Example:

Daily, daily, / sing to Mary,

Sing my soul her praises due:

All her feasts, her / actions honor,

With the heart's devotion true.

Now in wond'ring / contemplation,

Be her majesty confessed;

Call her Mother / call her Virgin,

Happy Mother, Virgin blest.

Significance: Meter is based on particular patterns of syllables of particular types. Pentameter, five sets of two syllables following a stressed unstressed pattern (called an iamb), is the most common meter, followed by tetrameter, four sets of the aforementioned iambs. ( according to what i learned in class)

Elegy 14th post

Definition: Elegy a poem dealing with things long past, of loss, of death, and sad things

Example:

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! My Captain!"

~ Walt Whitman~

Significance: Elegy usually use as a poem to praise the people who pass away, what glory they had made and to change they sadness atmosphere and people perspective about the death of that person.

Couplet 13th post

Definition: Couplet usually has two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.

Example:

I found a starfish in the bay,

When i was fishing yesterday

Signification: Couplet is one of the most common rhythm in poem writing. The easiest way to recognize couplet is the rhyme usually written at the end of the sentence.

Rhyme 12th post

Definition: A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words, mostly use in poems and songs.

Example:

Wow, for such a fellow,

Aren't you quite mellow?

Significance: This technique makes the poem easy to remember and interesting.

Rhythm 11th post

Definition:Rhythm is the pattern of recurrent strong and weak accents,

vocalization and silence, and the distribution and combination of these elements in speech.

Example:

The wind in her hair

The chair that sat there

Eyes on eyes

Fire and lye

In the river sky

~Unknown author~

Signification: When writing a poem, you want to ensure that the flow of your words is natural; otherwise, your readers will find themselves concentrating more on trying to read the poem than on effortlessly enjoying it.

Speaker 10th post

Definition: The narrator or a character of the poem

Example: William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"

Significance: While reading a poem, a speaker can easily expresses herself/himself because he/she puts all of their feelings into the poem to dramatically read it to to the audience.Poems can have characters just as other literary works do. Not every poem, (or every essay or novel) is autobiographical in nature. Poems can be just as fictional as other works.

Tone 9th post

Definition: Base on the mood of the poem, you will have different pitch to make the poem sounds more emotional and interesting.

Example:

"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody." ( said with an angry voice by Rob Buckle)
Significance: When reading poem with tones in it, of course with some other requirements, will make the poem sounds more emotional and realistic.

Interpretation 8th post

Definition: Explanation of an aesthetic works may refer to evaluation

Example:

The ablution has been made,
But not yet the offering.
Full of trust they look up to him.

Interpretation: It is a situation where the preparations for the great sacrifice have all been carried out and every one awaits the sacred ritual full of trust and faith. The Image shows wind blowing over the earth. The six in the fourth place was the changing line, and the accompanying text says: Contemplation of the light of the kingdom. It furthers one to exert influence as the guest of a king.

Significance: Interpretation is an important skill that you will apply for your understanding about a poem. You can guess, connect, or analyze, or even picture an image about what the author is trying to say. It is like literature circle, when we have 5 roles every week.

Personification 7th post

Definition: personification describes a non human thing as if it were human

Example: The moon smiled down from high in the sky.

Significance: Personification can assist with imagery and emotion, helps to extend some metaphors, and also can just provide an "unusual" perspective for a regular object. When a tree or the sound of silence bears attributes that are familiar to the reader, an immediate connection sparks in the audience mind or upon either emotions.

Simile 6th post

Definition: A Simile is a figure of speech. Simile directly compares two very different things. Simile compare things using "like" or "as.

Example: Your smile is like a star that's shining.

Signification: Like metaphor, simile is important because it helps the readers can understand and imagine how an object compares to another object looks like. Beside, simile is a bit easier to make than metaphor, and it is also interesting to see things being compare.

Extended Metaphor 5th post

Definition: A poem that contains lines that use metaphor.

Example:

A word is dead

A word is dead

When it is said,

Some say.

I say it just

Begins to live

That day.

~ Emily Dickinson~

Significance: If you have lots of lines in a poem that use metaphor, the audience might get really excited to read the poem because they will have to interpret what do the lines mean and it's nice to have people to think about what you write.

Metaphor 4th post

Definition: A Metaphor is a figure of speech. Metaphor directly compares two very different things. Metaphors compare things without using "like" or "as.

Example:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

~ Shakespeare ~

Significance: In my opinion, metaphor entertains people. Having a poem that contains different figure of speech such as metaphor, makes it a bit more complicated and people will have to figure out what the author actually means. Especially, Metaphor must not contain words that are: "like", "as"..., because it is just gonna become simile then.

Stanza 3rd post

Definition: A stanza of a poem equals to a paragraph of an essay, without the indentation.
Example:

Birdfoot's grampa

The old man

must have stopped our car

two dozen times to climb out

and gather into his hands

the small toads blinded

by our lights and leaping,

live drops of rain.

The rain was falling,

a mist about his white hair

and I kept saying

you can’t save them all

accept it, get back in

we've got places to go.

But, leathery hands full

of wet brown life,

knee deep in the summer

roadside grass,

he just smiled and said

they have places to go to

too.

~ Joseph Bruchac~

Significance: Stanza doesn't necessarily be include in every poem, but it is important when you write a long poem. You wouldn't find tedious when reading a long poem with stanzas, because it makes you stop and think back on what you read. Also, each stanza is like a paragraph in an essay, having difference ideas at a time.

Imagery 2nd post

Definition: Imagery means the usage of details and description to show or create expressions or some sensory experience for the audience. It is more like a literature work, with the use of mental images, contains or show mostly five sense of human, as well as emotions or feelings.

Example: “He clasps the crag with crooked hands" from “The Eagle” by Tennyson

Significance: Imagery is visual able, and moreover, it is realistic.

Poetry !st Post

Definition: Poetry to me is a painting on the canvas. Poet uses words instead of paint, and you are the canvas. We use poetry as a language to express feelings. Poems relate to imagery by using descriptive words to set and image in the reader's mind.

Example:

Rattlesnake stew
centipede salad
seaweed and jellyfish sandwich
milk mixed with glue
a-chocoberry pie
I hope the old bat doesn’t die!

Significance:

Firstly, it is the voice of your thought. When you want to express your feeling through some kind of oral art, you will definitely think of poetry. Secondly, it expressed beauty. A fancy art in itself, poetry incites a person to see beyond the missing bells and whistles that have been deliberately removed from the poetry and finally, last but not least, it depicts historical events. Poetry has been in existence since ages. Poems from the ancient historical eras give us a glimpse of the previous generations, right from depicting historical events to the primeval lifestyles.