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American Poetry. “ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, And the thought has found words” Robert Frost. POETRY . . . What is it?. Poetry is “a type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas).” - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
American Poetry“Poetry is when an emotion has found its
thought,And the thought has found words”
Robert Frost
POETRY . . . What is it? Poetry is “a type of
literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas).”
Poetry can break from traditional forms and continue to be poetry with its infusion of literary elements.
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POET
A poet is a literary artist who uses words to create images or messages that evoke an emotional, intellectual or other critical thoughts and responses in readers.Slide Source: http://home.comcast.net/~vldschool/Poetry%20Terminology.ppt#256,2,POETRY
Understanding Poetry Why We Developed Language- http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EdWgsTUhmI Why We Read Poetry- http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc
American Poetry Broke away from set form and meter. It
didn’t have to rhyme, or have a syllable count pattern. It was FREE verse.
More of an emphasis was on raw emotion. The only emotion in previous Old World poetry was Love—the divine and flawless kind.
Poetry was part of a private observation
Classic Poets Classical Poets: Walt Whitman,
Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickenson, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost Mainstream, white males Typically wealthy, or with
connections Subject Matter:
Nature revealing a universal truth Democracy/Freedom Religion The Common Man
Typical Poetic Tools: Free Verse Meter, Rhyme, Punctuation,
Imagery, Simile, Metaphor, Repetition, Alliteration, Irony
“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
“Oh Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZLDI1FtRw
African American Poets
Famous Poets: Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Sterling Allen Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks
Common Topics: Freedom, or lack thereof Class differences Identity Struggles
Poetic Tools: alliteration, imagery,
metaphor, personification, simile, rhyme, repetition, apostrophe, echo, allusion, hyperbole, and meter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX9tHuI7zVo -Life Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair by Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown Poem excerptRiverbank BluesA man git his feet set in a sticky
mudbank, A man git dis yellow water in his blood, No need for hopin', no need for doin', Muddy streams keep him fixed for good.
Source: www.poets.org; http://www.afropoets.net/sterlingbrown3.html
Brown’s use of dialect and blues as a mantra for expressing the reality of black life in the United States.
Paul Laurence PoemWe Wear the Mask WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,— This debt we pay to human guile; With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise, In counting all our tears and sighs? Nay, let them only see us, while We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries To thee from tortured souls arise. We sing, but oh the clay is vile Beneath our feet, and long the mile; But let the world dream otherwise, We wear the mask!
“We Wear the Mask”Lyrics of Lowly Life, in 1896 by Dodd, Mead, and Company. Source: http://www.potw.org/archive/potw8.html
Minority Poets Mexican-American: Pablo
Nerudo, Gary Soto, Octavio Paz, Luis Lopez
Native American: Esther Belin, Laura Da’, Santee Frazier, Joy Harjo
Common Topics: Political and social issues Historical events Spirituality and Nature Identity, Alienation Family Life Choices
How Things Work by Gary Soto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4dNOGVZTds
Oranges- Gary Soto : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lz_mz5hG2o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikV32qt32Xg –What I learned about Life So Far
Sherman Alexie’s Top Ten: http://billmoyers.com/content/sherman-alexies-top-ten-native-american-poets/
Relevance of Our Un-song Poets Dunbar exemplifies the stifled voice of many
peoples and the frustrated voice of many writers/poets.
Voices may be stifled because of differences: political, racial, gender, economic, social, psychological, philosophical, emotional, etc.
He represents the power of poetry to evoke feelings and teach people to apply a literary psychology in order to survive daily.
Children’s Poets and Comedy Too Many Daves by Dr. Seuss http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rebt5INsg3o
Shel Silverstein Raffi Flight of the Conchords- Hurt
Feelings http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuJzSTNDUGI
Commonly Use: Rhyme, Rhythm,
Onomatopoeia, lyrics, simile, alliteration
Rap
Eminem- Love the Way You Lie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4l-ZKNyl28
Tupac Shakur- Changes http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Ay9BWM8lwOA
Rapping (also known as emceeing,[1] MCing,[1] spitting (bars),[2] or rhyming[3]) refers to "spoken or chanted rhyming lyrics
Rapping is distinct from spoken word poetry in that it is performed in time to a beat
Rapping can be traced back to its African roots. Centuries before hip hop music existed, the griots of West Africa were delivering stories rhythmically, over drums and sparse instrumentation.
Art forms such as spoken word jazz poetry and comedy records had an influence on the first rappers
Poetry Slams Poetry Slam- Various poets
perform Disillusioned youth use poetry to
give a voice to their frustration at being born into a broken word
Poetic Devices: Rhyme, rhythm, alliteration,
lyrics, beats, onomatopoeia, simile, metaphor
Common Topics: Identity Social Injustice and Dysfunction
Education Family Issues
Slam Poem- Why I Hate School, but Love Education
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_ZmM7zPLyI
Sex http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlJFvxad1_A&list=PLeAcDzbFWwbUfyEmUwZKqWr-oqMXHiC55
Pretty http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0