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Poetry final
to be or not to be.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Epic definition | a long narrative poem. epic hero travels and represents aspects of culutre |
| Elements of an epic | catalogue of names, always something tremendous, long simile, memorization through rhyme, ,epithets, devine intervention. CALMED |
| Elegy definition | written response to a death. Usually contains lament (speaker expresses grief, praise and then consolation |
| Prose poem | paragraphs, follow rules of grammar, lines not broken up randomly. written in ordinary language, does not need rhythm |
| Confessional | autobiographical, masks actual experience, includes intimate details |
| what are common topics for confessional poetry? | mental illness, sexual abuse, additions, miscarriage, suicide |
| how was confessional poetry initially received in the 1950s | people were shocked and it was seen as taboo |
| who are the 4 main confessional poets? | Plath, Lowell, Sexton, Snodgrass (PLSS) |
| Lyric poem definition | a short poem that expresses deep personal feelings. origonally made to be read with music |
| elements of a lyrical poem | rhyme, rhythmic, repition, emotiona musical and l sound color, RRREMS |
| two popular lyrical poets | rumi and emily dickerson |
| who was rumi and what was Sufism | Rumi was a persian poet. It is a branch of Islam mystical, god is unknowable, one real being |
| Imagist poem definition | clear sharp language, isolate a single image to reveal its essecnce. They do not have narratives, reflect on poems only. Most make the title very important. ex: metro stop poem |
| pastoral poem definition | poems that revolve and fantisize over pastrol life, shepard and rustic country life. More idealistic than realistic |
| Narrative poems | tell a story |
| Dramatic poem | like a play in poem form, one or more speakers, a dialouge |
| Ballad poem definition | memorializes a story, often topics of lost or failed love, heroic acts, supernatural elements or events. Typically written by men and have an oral history |
| elements of ballads | set format and rhyme, subject matter is most important, regular rhyme and rhythm, failed love, heroric acts, supernatural elements |
| example of ballad | goody black , mariner ballad |
| sonnet definition | always have 14 lines, about love/death, morality, nature. there are two types |
| what are | |
| what are elizabethan/shakespearian sonnets | 3 qudrains and 1 couplet that has a lesson. written in iambic pentameter |
| what are italian/ petrochan sonnets | 8 lines, octave has the problem. then 6 lines sextette has the solution. written in iambic |
| terza rima | aba bcb cdc ded |
| quatrains | four lines |
| couplette | pair of lines |
| tone | speakers attitude toward topic |
| internal rhyme | rhyme is inside the lines |
| eye rhyme | looks like it will rhyme, but it won't. stone/none |
| slant rhyme | sounds almost align |
| iambic meter | U/U/U/U/ |
| monometer | U/U/U/U/ |
| dimeter | U/U/ |
| trimeter | U/U/U/ |
| tetrameter | U/U/U/U/ |
| Pentameter | U/U/U/U/U/ |
| Hexameter | 6 U/ |
| Heptameter | 7 U/ |
| Anapestic | UU/ |
| Trochaic | /U |
| Spondaic | // |
| ekphrastic | vivid description of a scene or work of art (thrall) |
| concrete poem | shape poetry, word placement makes an image or meaning |
| caesura | comma in the middle of a line, breaks up pace |
| enjambment | lines continuos past the end, no punctuation |
| hypotactic | uneven segments of syntax |
| paratactic | even segments of syntax |
| white space | can be used in story telling |
| sound color | can give tone and feeling in poem b |
| biographical critism | using an authors background to understand the poetry |
| new criticism | interpretation based on text only, no regard to authors life. close reading |
| Wordsworth poetic theory | poetry should involve common life, be relatable, emotional, spontaneous and simple. all writing is not needed |
| syntax effects___ | rhythm |
| Feminist Critical theory | critique of male assumptions and dominace |
| gynocriticism | critics of female authors and the female experience |
| Marxist criticsm | karl Marx, the economy is the basis of a culture. deals with classes, power and revolution |
| post colonial criticism | looking at litter coming out of colonized places, oppression of culture, changes enacted |
| Imagist poetry | not about the narrative, reflects on images only |
| sound color: N M NG Z | resonance |
| sound color: K G J CA CO CU CH | harshness |
| sound color: SH S F TH | breathiness |
| sound color: L R W | liquidy |
| sound color: P B T D G K | plosiveness |
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