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POETIC INTERPRETATION OF LIFE
Components of Poetry
Poems are a literary work written in stanzas and lines using rhythm (beat) to convey ideas and emotions. Sentence length, word placement and line groupings make up the structure and form of a poem.
BUT REALLY, WHAT IS POETRY?
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance
BUT REALLY, WHAT IS POETRY?
Poetry is an echo asking a shadow to dance
PARADOX OF PUNS
The Poetic Devices
Poetic diction is a style of writing in poetry which is composed of vocabulary, phrasing, and grammatical usage. The syntax together with the poetic diction is what sets the tone, mood, and energy of your poem to convey your intention. Poetic devices, like literary devices do for storytelling, help you convey your message.
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Poetic devices that have a “sonic” quality achieve specific effects when heard. Words with a sound can strike readers as soothing or melancholy while evoking certain thoughts and feelings to identify with your meaning.
ALLUSION - a brief reference to a person, character, historical event, work of art, and Biblical or mythological situation.
ANALOGY - Drawing a comparison or inference between two situations to convey the poet's message more effectively. Example: The plumbing took a maze of turns where even water got lost.
ALLITERATION - a string of three or four instances of the same consonant sound with no more than one intervening, non-alliterative onset consonant sound. Alliteration is used as a mnemonic device to evoke feelings such as fear and suspense in poetry.
ASSONANCE - repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.These vowel sounds are usually accented or stressed to give musical quality to the poem. By creating an internal rhyme, this also enhances the pleasure of reading the poem.
CONSONANCE - repeated 'consonant' sounds at the ending of words near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in a vowel.
CACOPHONY - a discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds to convey disorder. This is often enhanced by the combined effect of complex meanings and pronunciation. Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike.
CAESURA - metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins.
EUPHONY - a series of musically pleasant sounds that give the poem a melodious quality, conveying a sense of harmony to the reader.
HYPERBOLE - outrageous exaggeration used for effect. Example: He weighs a ton.
IRONY - contradictory statement or situation used to expose a reality contrary to what appears to be true.
IMAGERY - not simply a visual representation, in poetry it sustains or comprises figures of speech such as the following: " My heart opens like a cactus flower ". In this simile from Stevie Smith’s ‘Le Désert de l’Amour’ (1938), the image of a cactus flower imbues the poem with layers of conceptual as well as visual weight.
MEANING - the use of figurative language as a poetic device function to convey your intended meaning in various ways.
METAPHOR - is used in poetry to explain and elucidate emotions, feelings, relationships, and other elements that are better described using evocative language. Poets also use metaphor as a way of explaining or referring to something in a brief but effective way.
ONOMATOPOEIA - is used in poetry to create aural effects that mimic the visual image described. A combination of words may be used to create an onomatopoetic effect. It is, however, not imperative to use words that are onomatopoetic in and of themselves. For example, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Coleridge uses the phrase “furrow followed free” to mimic the sound of the wake left behind a ship.
OXYMORON - combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
PARADOX - statement in which a contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth.
PERSONIFICATION - Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea. Example: The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully.
PUN - a play on words in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds.
RHYTHM - is the flow of words within each meter and stanza to produce a rhythmic effect while emphasising specific parts of the poem.
REPETITION - uses word associations to express ideas and emotions in an indirect manner, putting emphasis on a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion.
RHYME - utilizes repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.
SYMBOL - an object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached meaning and significance.
SYMBOLISM - symbolism in poetry is using an object or action that suggests something beyond its literal meaning. Symbolism means to imbue objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original meaning or function. It is a representative of other aspects, concepts or traits than those visible in literal translation. Other literary devices, such as metaphor, allegory, and allusion, aid in the development of symbolism
ALLUSION - a brief reference to a person, character, historical event, work of art, and Biblical or mythological situation.
ANALOGY - Drawing a comparison or inference between two situations to convey the poet's message more effectively. Example: The plumbing took a maze of turns where even water got lost.
ALLITERATION - a string of three or four instances of the same consonant sound with no more than one intervening, non-alliterative onset consonant sound. Alliteration is used as a mnemonic device to evoke feelings such as fear and suspense in poetry.
ASSONANCE - repeated vowel sounds in words placed near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines.These vowel sounds are usually accented or stressed to give musical quality to the poem. By creating an internal rhyme, this also enhances the pleasure of reading the poem.
CONSONANCE - repeated 'consonant' sounds at the ending of words near each other, usually on the same or adjacent lines. These should be in sounds that are accented, or stressed, rather than in a vowel.
CACOPHONY - a discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sounds to convey disorder. This is often enhanced by the combined effect of complex meanings and pronunciation. Example: My stick fingers click with a snicker And, chuckling, they knuckle the keys; Light-footed, my steel feelers flicker And pluck from these keys melodies. —“Player Piano,” John Updike.
CAESURA - metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins.
EUPHONY - a series of musically pleasant sounds that give the poem a melodious quality, conveying a sense of harmony to the reader.
HYPERBOLE - outrageous exaggeration used for effect. Example: He weighs a ton.
IRONY - contradictory statement or situation used to expose a reality contrary to what appears to be true.
IMAGERY - not simply a visual representation, in poetry it sustains or comprises figures of speech such as the following: " My heart opens like a cactus flower ". In this simile from Stevie Smith’s ‘Le Désert de l’Amour’ (1938), the image of a cactus flower imbues the poem with layers of conceptual as well as visual weight.
MEANING - the use of figurative language as a poetic device function to convey your intended meaning in various ways.
METAPHOR - is used in poetry to explain and elucidate emotions, feelings, relationships, and other elements that are better described using evocative language. Poets also use metaphor as a way of explaining or referring to something in a brief but effective way.
ONOMATOPOEIA - is used in poetry to create aural effects that mimic the visual image described. A combination of words may be used to create an onomatopoetic effect. It is, however, not imperative to use words that are onomatopoetic in and of themselves. For example, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Coleridge uses the phrase “furrow followed free” to mimic the sound of the wake left behind a ship.
OXYMORON - combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
PARADOX - statement in which a contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth.
PERSONIFICATION - Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea. Example: The days crept by slowly, sorrowfully.
PUN - a play on words in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds.
RHYTHM - is the flow of words within each meter and stanza to produce a rhythmic effect while emphasising specific parts of the poem.
REPETITION - uses word associations to express ideas and emotions in an indirect manner, putting emphasis on a point, confirming an idea, or describing a notion.
RHYME - utilizes repeating patterns to bring out rhythm or musicality in poems. It is a repetition of similar sounds occurring in lines in a poem which gives the poem a symmetric quality.
SYMBOL - an object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached meaning and significance.
SYMBOLISM - symbolism in poetry is using an object or action that suggests something beyond its literal meaning. Symbolism means to imbue objects with a certain meaning that is different from their original meaning or function. It is a representative of other aspects, concepts or traits than those visible in literal translation. Other literary devices, such as metaphor, allegory, and allusion, aid in the development of symbolism
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