Part of an introduction to poetry unit I've used with keystage 3 students

1. Poetic Form

2. What is ‘form’?

3. Shape & stanzas Syllables & meter
Form
Punctuation Rhyme

4. The right glass for the right
drink!

5. The right form for the right
poetic expression!
Ballad
Haiku
Sonnet

6. Shape & stanzas Syllables & meter
Form
Punctuation Rhyme

7. Shape & Stanzas

8. You'll look up and down streets.
Look 'em over with care.
About some you will say,
quot;I don't choose to go there.quot;
With your head full of brains
and your shoes full of feet,
you're too smart to go down
any not-so-good street.
And you may not find any
you'll want to go down.
In that case, of course,
you'll head straight out of town.
It's opener there
in the wide open air.

10. Concrete Poetry

16. Shape & stanzas Syllables & meter
Form
Punctuation Rhyme

17. Line Length & Syllables

18. •poem 1
•poetry 3
•relief 2
•recommend 3
•entertainment 4

19. Haiku
•Traditional Japanese form
•Present tense
•Captures a visually powerful moment
•17 syllables over 3 lines (5,7,5)
•Translation can be an issue

20. The morning paper
Harbinger of good and ill
- I step over it
Freeway overpass-
Blossoms to graffiti on
Fog-wrapped June mornings
First Autumn morning:
The mirror I stare into
Shows my father’s face

21. An old pond!
A frog jumps in –
The sound of water
scent of plum blossoms
on the misty mountain path
a big rising sun
Spring rain -
Small shells on a small beach
glittering

22. Your Turn

23. Stressed & unstressed Syllables
•POem
•PO et ry
•re LIEF
•Re comm END
•En ter TAIN ment

25. •Iambic - Elaine
•Trochaic - Alfred
•Dactylic - Cameron
•Anapestic – Marianne
•Spondaic - Steven

26. Iambic Poetry
‘Come live with me and be my love’
Christopher Marlowe
‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’
William Shakespeare

27. Trochaic Poetry
‘With their weapons and their war-gear,
Painted like the leaves of Autumn,
Painted like the sky of morning,
Wildly glaring at each other;
In their faces stem defiance,
In their hearts the feuds of ages’
Henry Longfellow

28. Dactylic Poetry
‘Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
'Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred’
Alfred Tennyson

29. Anapestic Poetry
‘There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, quot;It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard’
Edward Lear

30. Spondaic Poetry
A serious poem cannot be solely spondaic.
It would be almost impossible to construct a
poem entirely of stressed syllables.
Therefore, the spondee usually occurs within a
poem having another dominant rhythm scheme.

31. One foot per line: monometer
Two feet per line : dimeter
Three feet per line : trimeter
Four feet per line : tetrameter
Five feet per line : pentameter
Six feet per line : hexameter

32. Type + Number = Meter
Number of feet per line
Types of Poetic Feet
Monometer
•
Iambic (1 unstressed + 1 stressed)
Dimeter
•
Trochaic (1 stressed + 1 unstressed)
Trimeter
•
Anapestic(2
Tetrameter
•
unstressed + 1 stressed)
Dactylic Pentameter
•
(1 stressed + 2 unstressed)
Spondaic Hexameter
•
(all syllables equal)

33. Q: If a poem had 1 foot per line, and
the foot was iambic (1 unstressed + 1 stressed),
what type of poem would it be?
A: Iambic monometer

34. Q: If a poem had 4 feet per line, and
the foot was trochaic (1 stressed +1 unstressed),
what type of poem would it be?
A: Trochaic tetrameter

35. And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen?
William Blake

36. And DID those FEET in ANcient TIME
Walk UPon ENgland's MOUNtains GREEN?
And WAS the HOly LAMB of GOD
On ENgland's PLEASant PAStures SEEN?

37. Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The carriage held but just ourselves
And Immortality.
Emily Dickinson

38. BeCAUSE I COULD not STOP for DEATH,
he KINDly STOPPED for ME;
The CArriage HELD but JUST ourSELVES
And IMmorTAliTY.
Emily Dickinson

39. Shape & stanzas Syllables & meter
Form
Punctuation Rhyme

40. Limerick

41. Sonnet
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

42. Sonnet
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; A
Coral is far more red than her lips' red; B
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; A
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. B
I have seen roses damasked, red and white, C
But no such roses see I in her cheeks; D
And in some perfumes is there more delight C
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. D
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know E
That music hath a far more pleasing sound; F
I grant I never saw a goddess go; E
My mistress when she walks treads on the ground. F
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare G
As any she belied with false compare. G

43. Shape & stanzas Syllables & meter
Form
Punctuation Rhyme

44. Enjambment & End-sopped lines

45. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree :
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

46. License my roving hands, and let them go
Before, behind, between, above, below.
O my America! my new-found-land,
My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned,
My mine of precious stones, my empery,
How blest am I in this discovering thee!
John Donne