Poetry is a gift
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Poetry is a gift Poetry Lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet. A Defense of Poetry (written 1821; published 1840) A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920 Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn Brooks, Harlem Renaissance poet Jane Nitschke
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Poetry is a gift Poetry Lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes
familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), English poet. A Defense of Poetry (written 1821; published 1840)
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. ~Samuel McChord Crothers, "Every Man's Natural Desire to Be Somebody Else" The Dame School of Experience, 1920
Poetry is life distilled. ~Gwendolyn Brooks,
Harlem Renaissance poet
Jane Nitschke
How do you unwrap a poem?
•Look at a poem•Shape•Punctuation•Grammar
•Read the poem. What can you find:•Metaphors? Similes? Imagery? Symbolism? Rhythm? Meter?
•Listen to a poem. Do you hear or feel:•Rhythm? Rhyme?•Fear? Sadness? Happiness? Anger?
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UnderstandiNG COMPARISONS
SIMILE• compares two things using the words
“like” or “as” • compares two things that are not similar.
• Example: She was as cool as a cucumber!
METAPHOR• compares two things but does NOT
use “like” or “as• Can use the words “is” or “are.”• Example: LOVE STINKS!
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Symbolism & ImageryPoets use images & symbols” to describe feelings and
impressions.
• Symbols stand for more than the words:
The United States,
Democracy
Freedom
Prosperity
Old Glory
• Images are descriptive
“My daughter’s hugs warm my heart”
Jane Nitschke & Loretta Hunt
A boom of African American Art, Music, and Literature in the 20’s and 30’s in
Harlem, New York
Loretta Hunt
Harlem Renaissance & Poetry
•What is the Harlem Renaissance and why is it important?http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iAhkxZvFHI&feature=related
Some amazing poets: Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn B. Bennett and Georgia Douglas Johnson, Claude McKay, Arna Bontemps, James Weldon Johnson
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Harlem WineBy Countée Cullen
This is not water running here,These thick rebellious streamsThat hurtle flesh and bone past fearDown alleyways of dreams
This is a wine that must flow onNot caring how or whereSo it has ways to flow uponWhere song is in the air.
So it can woo an artful fluteWith loose elastic lipsIts measurements of joy computeWith blithe, ecstatic hips.
"imagery" = mental pictures using your 5 senses"symbolism" = the meanings those images have beyond their literal elements.Both are used to express emotions.
The wine symbolizes the blood of African Americans.
Images of flowing water, flesh, music…
Loretta Hunt
Scanning “Harlem Wine”
The Pattern:
Each line alternates iambic tetrameter with iambic trimeter.
The Exception:
“This is a wine that must flow on” (line 5)
“flow on” is a spondee
The Question:
Why did Cullen choose to emphasize the words in line 5?
Janice Teel
The Rhyme Scheme
This is not water running here, (A)These thick rebellious streams (B)
That hurtle flesh and bone past fear (A)Down alleyways of dreams (B)
This is a wine that must flow on (C)Not caring how or where (D)
So it has ways to flow upon (C)Where song is in the air. (D)
So it can woo an artful flute (E)With loose elastic lips (F)
Its measurements of joy compute (E)With blithe, ecstatic hips. (F)
Question: If the poem were to continue, can you predict the rhyme scheme of the next stanza?
Janice Teel
Types of Rhyme Perfect Rhymes Sight Rhymes here/fear flute/compute streams/dreams where/air Internal Rhymes lips/hips flow/how (also sight) woo/loose (also slant)
This/is
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Enjambment
Enjambment occurs when a sentence continues from one line to the next.
Example:
That hurtle flesh and bone past fearDown alleyways of dreams...(lines 3 -4)
Questions: How does enjambment emphasize words and ideas? How many sentences do you see? Janice Teel
DREAM BOOGIE
By Langston Hughes
Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?Listen closely:You'll hear their feetBeating out and Beating out a --You thinkIt's a happy beat? Listen to it closely:Ain't you heardsomething underneathlike a --What did I say?Sure,I'm happy!Take it away!Hey, pop! Re-bop!Mop!Y-e-a-h!
Daddy could symbolize the white patron that African
Americans relied on to pursue their art.
An example of musical Imagery used to express emotion of the characters
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HarlemBy Langston Hughes
(sometimes referred to as “Dream Deferred”)
What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over—like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?
Simile - likens the original dreamto a round, juicy, green, fresh grape–once neglected it dries up
Imagery of touch; a wound that is not healing symbolizes growing resentment
Imagery of taste, sight, decay and waste
Metaphor: compares the dream to something that blows up.
Loretta Hunt
Poetry is a gift
Examine the bright wrapping paper,
Carefully unwrap the tissue paper inside
Share the gift of your poetry
Jane Nitschke
