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Best way to begin reading a poem?

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Do not be intimidated by it.

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Title

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Gives initial sense of what the poem is about

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Most important about initial readings?

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Ask questions; words, sounds, descriptions, and structure

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Elements of poetry?

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Speaker, image, metaphor, symbol, rhyme, and rhythm

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Origins of poetry?

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No one knows; tribal ceremonies using rhythmic patterns of words into their rituals (possibility) = chanting

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Doggered

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Poetry lines whose subject matter is trite and whose rhythm and sounds are monotonously heavy-handed. "I scream/ You Scream/ We all Scream/ For icecream!"

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How long has poetry existed?

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Most ancient of arts; since human beings discovered pleasure in language

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What is special about READING poetry?

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Inevitably increases sensitivity to language; more likely to become a better reader of words in any form.

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What makes poetry valuable?

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Consists in the words that work their magic by allowing us to feel, see, and be more than we were before.

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Why should we read poetry?

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For emotional and intellectual discovery -- to feel and to experience something about the world and ourselves.

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How is poetry different from prose?

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Prose paraphrase poetry. Allows a clearer understanding but misses all the sport and fun of a poem. Also, different strategies used when reading poetry.

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12 Strategies for reading poems

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1. Read more than once 2. Pay attention to the title 3. First reading: Avoid focusing on things you don't understand 4. Second reading: Identify words/ passages you don't understand. 5. Read the poem aloud. (Or have someone it to you). 6. Read punctuation. 7. Paraphrase 8. Gain a sense of the speaker. Who is it? 9. What are the purpose of each element? 10. Entertain perspectives, values, experiences and subjects. 11. Develop a coherent approach to shape a discussion. 12. Don't expect a definitive meaning.

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What is poetry?

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Undefinable. "Poetry has two outstanding characteristics. One is that it is undefinable. The other is that it is eventually unmistakable." -Edwin Arlington Robinson

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What is the different purposes of writing poetry?

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To capture mood or feeling, create vivid experience, express point of view, narrate a story, or portray a character.

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Paraphrase

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A prose restatement of the central ideas of a poem in your own language.

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Speaker

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The voice used by the author in the poem; a created identity rather than the author's actual self.

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Metaphor

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Makes comparison between two UNLIKE things. Implicitly, without words such as 'like' or 'as'.

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Concentrated use of language in poetry

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Emphasis on individual words to convey meanings, experiences, emotions and effects

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Words in poems frequently

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Create their own tastes, textures, sounds, and shapes; More sensuous than ordinary language.

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Verse

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Lines composed in a measured rhythmic patter, often -- but not always -- rhymed.

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Anagrams

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Words made from letters of other words; read = dare.

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Setting of a poem?

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The context in which individual words interact to provide a larger meaning.

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Juxtaposition

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To place or deal with close together for contrasting effect.

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Theme

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A central meaning or idea of a poem.

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Lyric

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Brief poem that expresses the personal emotions and thoughts of a single speaker; usually written in first person. Often about love and death. Evoked intense emotional response.

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3 Types of Lyric Poems

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Sonnet, elegy, and ode

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Sonnet

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A poem of 14 lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes, in English typically having 10 syllables per line.

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Elegy

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Modern literature: A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead. Greek and Latin: A poem written in elegiac couplets, as notably by Catullus and Propertius.

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Ode

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In the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre; meant to be sung.

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Narrative Poem

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Tells a story

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An Epic

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A long narrative poem on a serious subject chronicling heroic deeds and important events.

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Examples of Epics

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Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, John Milton's Paradise Lost, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Old English Beowulf.

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Narrative vs Epics

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Narratives are much shorter.

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Predominant TYPE of poetry today?

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Lyric poems (most wildly HEARD)

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