7 Matching Annotations
- Sep 2024
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Iamb Unstressed stressed “What LIPS / my LIPS / have KISSED, / and WHERE, / and WHY…. ”[5] Trochee Stressed unstressed “DOUble / DOUble / TOIL and / TROUble, / FIre / BURN and / CAULdron / BUBble.”[4] Anapest Unstressed unstressed stressed “It was MAN/y and MAN/y a YEAR / ago, in a KING/dom by the SEA....”[3] Dactyl Stressed unstressed unstressed “CANnon to / RIGHT of them, / CANnon to / LEFT of them.…”[2] Spondee Stressed stressed “To a / GREEN THOUGHT, / in a / GREEN SHADE.”[1] Pyrrhic Unstressed unstressed “TO A / green thought, / IN A / green shade.”
Trad Meters
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English language poetry offers six rhythms: the iamb, the trochee, the anapest, the dactyl, the spondee, and the pyrrhic.
The Traditional rhythms
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A period states, “This idea ends, and a new begins”; a semi-colon states, “This idea ends, but the next is closely related”; and a colon states, “What follows clarifies what came before.”
The meaning of punctuation in poetry
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poems are often short enough that poets labor over every single word. Unlike stories, which are strings of sentences, a poem may contain no sentences at all, just fragments of speech and solitary words. Choosing the right word can be difficult. Words have denotations, or literal meanings, but words also carry connotations
Words in poetry are immensely important.
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There are epic poems that depict a mythic time of origins and beginnings, narrative poems that tell a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and there are odes, poems that valorize a person, object, idea, or place. There are dramatic monologues, speeches given by a single speaker at an important moment, and there are even didactic poems, poems meant to teach. Any of these general categories could take on a closed form (such as a sonnet, discussed below), but they can also take on other forms such as blank verse and open verse.
There are many different forms of poetry with many different types that fit in those forms.
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Authors often write to express their own feelings on a subject, yes, but they also take on personas, a concept which comes from the Latin word for “mask.”
Poems are not always 'spoken' by the author but rather their personas. though they do sometimes use them themself as the speaker.
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One of the perhaps oldest and lasting definitions of poetry considers it to be a special form of rhythmic speech. We begin to feel poetry before we begin to make meaning from it
Poetry is older than writing as it was first oral. Poetry is full of feelings that lead to the meaning
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