Poetry-+Michael,+Rachael

Poetry- Michael and Rachael

5/9/2011 How do authors write the beginning of this genre? My author started with a poem that descrides the girl. It is weird because I feel like it is not a book of poems but a novel. The poms flow together like a novel does. Both of my poem books are simply long poems. They both start out telling the introduction of the stories that both poems tell. Answer something we wanted to know. I wanted to know if it would be different reading a book that was written in poems. I think that it is read the same way as a novel. I want to know how both of the poems I have chosen relate to each other and how they both relate to the poem genre and short story genre as a whole. Identify and discuss 2 master techniques that you see in all of your works, give examples. Why would all authors of the genre use these MT? My author uses similies and metaphors a lot. These seem to be the eaiest MT to write. I think a lot of poets use these MT because they give an example and comparison of something by using like and fun words. --> page 17 and 22 My authors wrote during a different time period, and they have interesting word choices and writing styles. Many times they would seem to make compressed conflicts to us in this time period, but it was perfectly normal then. Both poems had colorful vocabulary and strong imagery that led me to understand both fully, even through the difficult time period barrier. Compressed Conflict (Rime of Ancient Mariner)--> "it grew wondrous cold" (10). Cool, vivid word (The Raven)--> "my books surcease of sorrow" [32 (or page 1 of the actual poem)]. Identify and share 1 MT from each individual work. Alliteration--> page 10-11 (Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Simile--> "Red as a rose is she" (6).

5/5/2011 1. Tell each other what you are reading and why. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and The Raven What My Mother Doesn't Know

5/12/2011 1. Answer/research 1 thing you wanted to know about your genre: Question: How is a longer poem structured differently than a shorter one? Answer: The auhor uses specific techniques for poems that are longer that are not used in those that are shorter, and visa versa. The shorter ones are more rhyme and technique based while the longer ones focus on line breaks and grammar uses. Question: How long does a poem have to be to be considered a "longer poem?" Is it the length so much, or does it have to do more with the techniques used in it? Answer: I think that "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe is not really that long, but it is considered a longer poem. I believe this is because it uses certain repetitive techniques and colorful language that may be found in a short story or a novel. Because it uses this vocabulary and structure, it can be seen or thought of as being a long poem, because it sounds more like the wording used in a story rather than that used in a short poem.

2.How does the middle of this genre work? The middle of this genre is different for every piece, sometimes it is a climax. However the climax is not as large or notciable as a short story or a novel.

3. What master techniques are becoming most important and why? Repitition- Throughout a longer poem, repetition can be used to allow the reader to fall back on a common phrase if they are having difficulty understanding parts of the poem. Example: "evermore" and "nothing more" (The Raven). Cool, vivid words- The wording of the poem can either lure readers or drive them away. If the poem uses words that many people will like, then it will attract more readers. Example: "marvelled this ungainly fowl" (The Raven). Example: slashing me with the knives in her eyes. (145, what my other doesn't know)

Imagery- this works when the author wants to describe something in fun words. Example: "gigantic pink roses all over my dress.... Are you thristy, I could go get the hose...." (129) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hyperbole- "my heart sinks all the way to china" (80)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5/17/2011

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. How do authors end this genre? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Sometimes the author ends the poem the same way he/she started the poem, using repetition to end it. Sometimes the author draws upon different master techniques to end it, like using fragmented grammar to get a point across or by ending with and abrupt, resonating word.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Research/answer another question. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Question: What does it take for a piece to be considered a poem? Can just about anything be considered a poem? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Answer: As long as the piece incorporates the poetry master techniques in some way or another, it can be a poem. However, if the piece falls under any other genre category, then it cannot be considered poetry even if it has the master techniques in it.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. What are the most important master techniques? What are examples of these? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">repetition-"Not in the hall, Not in the cafeteria, nnot in the library, not anywhere." (63, What my mother doesn't know) " I hate her, i hate her, I hate her" (150 what my mother doesn't know) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">imagery-" enourmous pink roses plastered all over it. "I am not going dressed as a potted plant." (115 What my mother doesn't know) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">cool, vivid words- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">" flirt and flutter" (The Raven).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. What are the key differences within the genre as seen between the different works you each read? They are all different. The poems Rachael read were a bunch of peoms that read like a book. Michael read two larger poems. One of them read like a book and other was just one long poem. These two different types show how different the genre can be read and written.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. Review what we learned about the genre as a class <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Types of poems <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1. The Pantoum <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2. I Am <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. The Acrostic <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. Sonnet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5. Free Verse <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6. Villanelle <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">7.Sestina

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Master Techniques <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">1. Imagery- taking an observation in and then describing it in words <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Realistic- what is seen and is true <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. Poetic- change what you wantà lonely window <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">2. Compressed conflict- pair of words that seen to not go together <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">3. Cool,vivid words <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Unusal <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. Specific <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c. Truly memorable <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;">i. Blue and black cold <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;">ii. Fall into pieces (the kid) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;">iii. Crashing fist <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">4. Grammar- rules don’t apply if you make intentional choices <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. If you want to show somethings changer the rules around <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. If you don’t want to show anything follow the rules <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">5. Repetition- important <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">6. Similie- compare using like or as <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">7. The line break- when the poet stops one line and starts another <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Changes the menaing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;">i. So it doesn’t change the meaning do the line break with the grammar <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">8. Tone- the feeling of the poem <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">9. Speaker- narrator of the poem <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Unknown <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1.5in; text-indent: -1.5in;">i. Not always the author <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">10. Personification- giving human characteristics t oa nonhuman thing <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Hand of a clock <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. The dog laughing at me <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">11. Metaphor- comparing two thing without using like or as <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">12. Situation- like the exposition of the story but in a poem <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Who’s there, where they are, what is going on? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">13. Extended metaphor- when the whole poem is a metaphor <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">14. Hyperbole- an extreme exaggeration <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. So hungry you could eat a horse <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">15. Onomatopoeia- a word that came from a sound <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Bam <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. Pow <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c. Animal noises <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">16. Alliteration- the same consistent at the beginning of the words <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">a. Fathers fists <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">b. Midnight my <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt 1in; text-indent: -0.25in;">c. White wings <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3. Questions/ Topics we want to know about the genre <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- how to structure a longer peom compared to a shorter one <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- how to integrate our own style to poetry <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">- how to distinguish and annotate different styles of poetry

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4. Break up reading (3 due dates)