WHAT IS POETRY?
- It can rhyme, but it doesn't have to.
- It tells a story, or it can be nonsense.
- It can be short or long and different shapes.
- It creates images in your mind - 5 senses.
- It has rhythm, deep feelings, imagination.
- It can be about anything - any topic!
- It can have different forms or structures.
- Poetry has moods - funny, sad, scary, etc.
- It is read slowly and is sweet-sounding.
- Words are put together and they flow.
- Stanzas are the paragraphs of poetry.
- White space is in between the stanzas.
- Poetry has beautiful language.
- Alliteration, Similes, Metaphors, Onomatopoeia, etc.
- Poet's License for punctuation.
- Poetry can have dialogue.
- Sometimes each line begins with a capital letter.
- Words and lines can be repeated for effect.
- Some have titles, some don't.
- Can have a few words, phrases, or sentences.
- Poetry can be a song.
- Expressing yourself, an idea, a mood, etc.
- Poetry has few rules!
- Poetry can teach a lesson about life!
ALSO -
E. E. Cummings:
- Poetry makes use of the page and spacing for effect.
E. E. Cummings:
- Poetry uses the sounds and patterns of language to evoke certain emotions in its reader.
- Poetry can be written in any language, or can create its own language.
- Reading and writing poetry teaches us about ourselves.
WORDS THAT DESCRIBE TONE IN POETRY AND PROSE
Admiring
Afraid
Aggravated
Aggressive
Agitated
Allusive
Angry
Apathetic
Apologetic
Appreciative
Argumentative
Arrogant
Assertive
Assured
Audacious
Authoritative
Awestruck
Bilious
Bitter
Bland
Blithe
Bombastic
Boring
Brash
Breezy
Calm
Cantankerous
Casual
Caustic
Cheerful
Childish
Coarse
Cold
Colloquial
Complacent
Complimentary
Condescending
Confessional
Confiding
Confused
Consoling
Contemptuous
Contentious
Contented
Contradictory
Critical
Cross
Cynical
Dejected
Deliberate
Depressed
Desperate
Detached
Disagreeable
Disappointed
Disgusted
Disinterested
Dismissive
Doleful
Dour
Dramatic
Dreamy
Dutiful
Ecstatic
Elegiac
Encouraging
Enthusiastic
Euphoric
Excited
Facetious
Fanciful
Fearful
Fervent
Frenetic
Friendly
Flippant
Frivolous
Galvanizing
Giddy
Grateful
Gracious
Gregarious
Happy
Harsh
Hating
Haughty
Hesitant
Humble
Hollow
Horrific
Humorous
Hurt
Illusory
Impassive
Impish
Indignant
Innocent
Inquisitive
Instructive
Ironic
Joking
Joyful
Laconic
Lighthearted
Loud
Loving
Macabre
Manipulative
Melancholy
Miserable
Mocking
Modest
Morbid
Naïve
Negative
Nervous
Nihilistic
Nostalgic
Objective
Obsequious
Opprobrious
Panegyric
Paranoid
Passive
Patronizing
Peaceful
Pedantic
Penitent
Persuasive
Phlegmatic
Pleading
Pleasant
Poignant
Politic
Pretentious
Prosaic
Proud
Provocative
Punctilious
Quaint
Querulous
Questioning
Quiet
Quotidian
Restrained
Ribald
Romantic
Rancorous
Raucous
Saccharine
Sad
Salacious
Sarcastic
Satiric
Scornful
Seductive
Sentimental
Serious
Sharp
Shocking
Silly
Sly
Smug
Somber
Soothing
Sour
Superficial
Superior
Supportive
Surprised
Sweet
Sympathetic
Tautological
Tempestuous
Terse
Tired
Tortuous
Truculent
Uneasy
Uninterested
Upset
Urgent
Vehement
Vexed
Vibrant
Vitriolic
Wanton
Whimsical
Wistful
Wry
Zany
Zealous
Afraid
Aggravated
Aggressive
Agitated
Allusive
Angry
Apathetic
Apologetic
Appreciative
Argumentative
Arrogant
Assertive
Assured
Audacious
Authoritative
Awestruck
Bilious
Bitter
Bland
Blithe
Bombastic
Boring
Brash
Breezy
Calm
Cantankerous
Casual
Caustic
Cheerful
Childish
Coarse
Cold
Colloquial
Complacent
Complimentary
Condescending
Confessional
Confiding
Confused
Consoling
Contemptuous
Contentious
Contented
Contradictory
Critical
Cross
Cynical
Dejected
Deliberate
Depressed
Desperate
Detached
Disagreeable
Disappointed
Disgusted
Disinterested
Dismissive
Doleful
Dour
Dramatic
Dreamy
Dutiful
Ecstatic
Elegiac
Encouraging
Enthusiastic
Euphoric
Excited
Facetious
Fanciful
Fearful
Fervent
Frenetic
Friendly
Flippant
Frivolous
Galvanizing
Giddy
Grateful
Gracious
Gregarious
Happy
Harsh
Hating
Haughty
Hesitant
Humble
Hollow
Horrific
Humorous
Hurt
Illusory
Impassive
Impish
Indignant
Innocent
Inquisitive
Instructive
Ironic
Joking
Joyful
Laconic
Lighthearted
Loud
Loving
Macabre
Manipulative
Melancholy
Miserable
Mocking
Modest
Morbid
Naïve
Negative
Nervous
Nihilistic
Nostalgic
Objective
Obsequious
Opprobrious
Panegyric
Paranoid
Passive
Patronizing
Peaceful
Pedantic
Penitent
Persuasive
Phlegmatic
Pleading
Pleasant
Poignant
Politic
Pretentious
Prosaic
Proud
Provocative
Punctilious
Quaint
Querulous
Questioning
Quiet
Quotidian
Restrained
Ribald
Romantic
Rancorous
Raucous
Saccharine
Sad
Salacious
Sarcastic
Satiric
Scornful
Seductive
Sentimental
Serious
Sharp
Shocking
Silly
Sly
Smug
Somber
Soothing
Sour
Superficial
Superior
Supportive
Surprised
Sweet
Sympathetic
Tautological
Tempestuous
Terse
Tired
Tortuous
Truculent
Uneasy
Uninterested
Upset
Urgent
Vehement
Vexed
Vibrant
Vitriolic
Wanton
Whimsical
Wistful
Wry
Zany
Zealous
Poetry Dictionary
Surrealism
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." - Salvador Dalí
Surrealist poetry seeks to break and transcend the limits of our reality, often in order to discover higher truths or simply to go beyond normal boundaries that exist within our lives, world, thoughts and imaginations.
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." - Salvador Dalí
Surrealist poetry seeks to break and transcend the limits of our reality, often in order to discover higher truths or simply to go beyond normal boundaries that exist within our lives, world, thoughts and imaginations.
"Entre les Trous de la Memoire" by Dominique Appia
Corona
by Paul Celan
Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends.
From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk:
then time returns to the shell.
In the mirror it's Sunday,
in dream there is room for sleeping,
our mouths speak the truth.
My eye moves down to the sex of my loved one:
we look at each other,
we exchange dark words,
we love each other like poppy and recollection,
we sleep like wine in the conches,
like the sea in the moon's blood ray.
We stand by the window embracing, and people
look up from the street:
it is time they knew!
It is time the stone made an effort to flower,
time unrest had a beating heart.
It is time it were time.
It is time.
A Brief Guide to Surrealism - Poets.org
Surrealist Poets:
Found Poetry
- Erasure - "Poetry through subtraction."
Blackout poems, sometimes called erasure or redacted poems (also a type of found poetry), start with an existing text - for example, a newspaper article or a page from a novel; the poet then "blacks out" with a marker or in some way subtracts the unwanted words or excess words, leaving fewer, carefully selected words to create a new idea(s) in the form of a poem. The poet/artist may also incorporate art over the unused text, and/or they could make a collage of text and/or images.
Create erasures here: http://erasures.wavepoetry.com/.
See also:
Nets and The Desert - Jen Bervin
Newspaper Blackout - Austin Kleon
A Humument - Tom Phillips
Nets and The Desert - Jen Bervin
Newspaper Blackout - Austin Kleon
A Humument - Tom Phillips
- Free form excerpting/remixing, cut up and/or "Chance Operations" - The poet picks our or cuts/tears up preexisting text into words/phrases and creates a poem from intentional or random arrangements of them. Magnetic poetry can also be used in this way.
Poetic Techniques: Chance Operations - Poets.org
- Cento - The poet takes whole lines from other authors' writings/poems and plays with order and/or form to make a new poem.
Also may be of interest:
The Found Poetry Review
The Found Poetry Review
Rhyming Poetry
First of all, there are different types of rhymes. There are more traditional and nursery ABAB perfect end rhymes (the words sound the same because of the last syllable and come at the end of the phrase). There are also: internal, reverse, half and para-rhymes.
Internal rhymes: happen in the middle of the verse
Half rhymes: final consonants repeat ex. bowl, trawl
Reverse rhymes: the beginning of the words sound the same ex. gorge, gourd
Pararhymes (also: partial or imperfect or slant rhymes): consonants or vowels match, but the vowels or consonants are different ex. drip, drop/ heart, star.
*Beware: rhyming in poetry can be very powerful. Don't abuse it; use it well. Pay attention.
First of all, there are different types of rhymes. There are more traditional and nursery ABAB perfect end rhymes (the words sound the same because of the last syllable and come at the end of the phrase). There are also: internal, reverse, half and para-rhymes.
Internal rhymes: happen in the middle of the verse
Half rhymes: final consonants repeat ex. bowl, trawl
Reverse rhymes: the beginning of the words sound the same ex. gorge, gourd
Pararhymes (also: partial or imperfect or slant rhymes): consonants or vowels match, but the vowels or consonants are different ex. drip, drop/ heart, star.
*Beware: rhyming in poetry can be very powerful. Don't abuse it; use it well. Pay attention.
Annabel Lee
BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven
Coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me--
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in Heaven above
Nor the demons down under the sea
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling—my darling—my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
The Sea in the Trees
by Kit Wright
When the warm wind was flowing
In the leaves of the tall ash tree,
The old man fell asleep in the park
And he dreamed of the sound of the sea.
The branches filled and billowed,
The highest mainmast swayed,
As long sea-miles of the afternoon
His green galleon made
In the harbour of the shade.
Other Terms/Ways of Talking about Poetry
Acrostic
Alliteration - same initial consonant sound repeats in close succession "While I nodded, nearly napping..."
American Sonnet
Assonance - vowels in a line are the same "weak, weary"
Beat
Conceit
Confessional
Consonance - one or two consonants of words in a phrase repeat close to successively "clip, clop"; "hat, sat, cat"
Contemporary
Enjambment
Epic
Epitaph
Free Verse
Haiku
Iambic Pentameter
Imagiste
Internal Rhyme
Lyrical
Meter
Metonymy
Modern
Multimedia Works
Narrative
Nonsense
Persona
Prose Poetry
Renga Poem
Rhetorical
Romantic
Sestina
Slam
Songs
Sonnet
Stanza
Tanka
Terza rima
Trope
Acrostic
Alliteration - same initial consonant sound repeats in close succession "While I nodded, nearly napping..."
American Sonnet
Assonance - vowels in a line are the same "weak, weary"
Beat
Conceit
Confessional
Consonance - one or two consonants of words in a phrase repeat close to successively "clip, clop"; "hat, sat, cat"
Contemporary
Enjambment
Epic
Epitaph
Free Verse
Haiku
Iambic Pentameter
Imagiste
Internal Rhyme
Lyrical
Meter
Metonymy
Modern
Multimedia Works
Narrative
Nonsense
Persona
Prose Poetry
Renga Poem
Rhetorical
Romantic
Sestina
Slam
Songs
Sonnet
Stanza
Tanka
Terza rima
Trope