Definition[:
A sad and mournful poem written to lament for the dead.
Example[:
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glints on the snow.
I am the sunlight ripened on the grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the morning's rush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds of circling flight.
I am the soft star that shines at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there. I did not die.
[By Mary Elizabeth Frye]
Significance[:
I think the importance of elegies are that they honor the dead. For dead people want to be remembered, or at least not forgotten. Elegies show significance to the non-living.
Santa Is A Line Dancer [:
I went to a club on Christmas Eve,
There was a party like you wouldn't believe;
The beer was flowin', the place was loud,
A man could get lost just workin' the crowd;
I was on my second round and what did I see?
An old man with a beard was smiling at me;
He wore a red coat and he drove a sleigh;
Man, could that stranger slip and sway!
Santa is a line dancer, burnin' up the floor,
He's ringin' those bells, and he's ready to roar;
Santa is a line dancer, and he's got the beat,
Better make way for those magic feet.
I thought I was crazy, couldn't believe my eyes,
It's the Miller talkin', then I realized
Santa himself was out on the town,
Kickin' up his heels before he made his rounds;
He was a hit with the women under the mistletoe,
They sat on his lap, now wouldn't you know;
He took down their number, wouldn't you bet;
This was a Christmas they'd never forget.
I watched him take off in his turbo sleigh,
It had bucket seats and a microwave;
His side-kick was an elf in a mini skirt,
She wore a pointed hat and a sequined shirt;
I heard him shout as he hit the sky,
"Merry Christmas, y'all,I've got to fly!
Next Christmas Eve, I'll be ready for more,
Babe, I'll meet you out on the floor!"
[By Anonymous]
Pinocchio, Pinocchio [:
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
That little wooden bloke-io,
His nose, it grew an inch or two
With every lie he spoke-io.
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
Thought life was just a joke-io,
‘Til the morning that he met that cat
And the fox in a long red cloak-io.
They cried, “Come on, Pinocchio,
We’ll entertain the folk-io,
On puppet strings you’ll dance and sing
From Timbuktu to Tokyo.”
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
Got sold to a trav’lin’ show-kio,
Got put in a cage by a man in a rage
With a stick to give him a poke-io.
So Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
Out of that cage he brokie-io
To the land where boys just play with toys
And cuss and fight and smoke-io.
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
He finally awoke-io
With donkey ears and little-boy tears,
And his poor wooden heart was broke-io.
So back home ran Pinocchio,
As fast as he could go-kio,
But his daddy, he had gone to sea,
So off to sea went Pinocchio.
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
He got quite a soak-io
When he lost his sail and got ate by a whale,
And it looked like he was gonna croak-io.
But Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
A fire he did stoke-io
Inside that whale, who sneezed up a gale
And blew him out in the smoke-io.
Pinocchio, Pinocchio,
Next mornin’ he awoke-io,
And he had no strings or puppety things,
And his donkey ears had disappeared,
And his nose– – surprise– – was the normal size,
And his body filt fine, not made of pine,
And he cried, “Oh joy, I’m real boy,
And everything’s okey-dokey-o.”
[By Shel Silverstein]
Are You Talking To Me? [:
"Are you talking to me?" she said passing by
"Yes, you ... you ... next to the bald-headed guy,
"I think you're real gorgeous ... that flaming red hair
Is exceedingly beautiful and really quite rare.
"I love the way that it curls round your face,
And the way that it seems your ears to embrace,
And the way that it darkens the green of your eyes,
And the way on your cheek that a loose tendril lies."
She took a deep breath as she paused in her stride,
Her lips slowly parted, her eyes opened wide,
She smiled as she whipped the wig from her head,
"If you like it so much, here, you wear it instead."
Definition[:
A poem which includes only a pair of lines; usually with rhyme and are of the same length.
Example[:
I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing.
Just praying to a God that I don't believe in.
[Breakeven - The Script]
Significance[:
I think couplets are important because it's short and to the point. And I think that's what couplets do, two sentences going together to tell a long story.
Definition[:
Something that resembles or represents something else visually.
Example[:
It breaks your heart;
When people you know became people you knew.
When you can walk right past someone as if they were never a huge part of your life.
You used to be able to talk for hours on the phone,
& now you can't even look at each other in the eye.
It completely breaks your heart to know good things change,
& there's nothing that you can do..
[Symbol of hopelessness, loss, heartbreak]
Significance[:
Just like metaphors and similies, symbols help represent something to show how much those two things are alike. Symbols help readers interpret things, and that's different for everyone because they have different perceptions.
Definition[:
When the ending of words sound alike, like 'wall', 'fall', 'ball', 'mall'... They all have the 'all' ending.
Example[:
Can somebody explain to me,
Why everybody is trying to be,
Living like a celebrity,
Doing what they see on MTV.
Ice is cool but I'm looking for more,
Simple things are what my heart beats for.
Cos' that's me, I don't ask for much,
Baby, having you is enough.
Significance[:
I think what's important about rhyming is that it makes the poem sound more fun, and good. Because you can talk about this one thing, one topic, when you have so many words that sound alike in the poem. It's also fun to rhyme because you can experience with half-rhymes, and rhymes that don't have to visually look alike but sound alike.
Personification[:
Giving non-humans and objects human-like actions; describing a thing as if it were a person.
Example[:
The lightning danced across the sea.
Significance[:
Giving an object a human-like action will create an image in the reader's head, to show what the object is doing, or at least look like it's doing something. It will help with the reader's understanding, because readers are better with understanding human actions.
Definition[:
A beat when a poem is read, the flow of movement of the words in the poem.
Example[:
The rhythm in that poem was steady because every line had the same amount of syllables, with the ending words rhyming very well.
Significance[:
It's important to stay on beat in a poem, because when the poem is read out loud, it will sound better and professional, more fun and exciting to read. I personally don't like poems that don't rhyme, also poems with no rhythm at all just bore me. Rhythms in a poem tend to sound more like, a song. A song that is spoken, that instruments can play in the background to the same beat.
Definition[:
When a metaphor is extended in a poem, when many things are compared at once.
Example[:
My family is an expired firecracker
Set off by the blowtorch of divorce,
We lay scattered in many directions.
My father is the wick,
Badly burnt but still glowing softly.
My mother is the blackened paper fluttering down,
Blowing this way and that,
Unsure where to land.
My sister is the fallen, colorful parachute,
Lying in a tangled knot, unable to see the beauty she holds.
My brother is the fresh, untouched powder
That was protected from the flame.
And I, I am the singed, outside papers,
Curled away from everything,
Silently cursing the blowtorch.
Significance[:
Extended metaphors are important because they show how just one subject can relate to so many different other things. It shows strong emphasis on what the author is trying to compare it to.
Definition[:
A person who reads a poem out loud, also known as the poet.
Example[:
The poem was very vivid because the speaker read with emotion.
Significance[:
Without a speaker, there would be no emotion to the poem, because you can't have emotions when you're reading the poem to yourself. Even if you did, it wouldn't be as lively. A speaker can be anyone, as long as they read it to an audience.
Definition[:
Any sound with a particular quality, pitch, strength, source, etc... A stress on a syllable of a word.
Example[:
*Produce*
1. Pruh-DOOS (verb) ; to make, to bring existence to.
2. PROH-doos (noun) ; something that is made or produced.
~ The same word has different pronunciation, it has different emphasize on different syllables. So the tone is different.
Significance[:
In poems, or any writing at all, tones are important because if you read it a different way than it's actually supposed to be, then it might mean a different meaning, causing the text you're reading harder for you to comprehend. Especially in poems, if you read a word in the wrong tone, the flow of the poem when read (RED, not REED) aloud will not sound right.
Definition[:
The way you take in something, understanding it your way. Your concept of something when it is mentioned to you. Almost like your schema.
Example[:
Every person interpret things differently because everyone has a different schema.
Significance[:
It's important how you see things, how you interpret them. In poems, there are things that the author purposely writes to get you thinking different ways, or they write it on accident, thinking this way while you're comprehending it another way. Everyone interpret things differently because everyone sees things differently; different set of eyes and mind.
Definition[:
Making a comparison between two things using 'like', 'as', or 'than'. It's something compared to something else.
Example[:
Stones; heavy like the love you've shown,
Solid as the ground we've known,
And I just wanna carry on,
We took it from the bottom up,
And even in a desert storm,
Sturdy as a rock we hold,
Wishing every moment froze,
Now I just wanna let you know..
[Pyramid - Charice]
Significance[:
Like a metaphor, I think similes are important in the same way. Except it's less like the something we're comparing it to, because we use comparing words, and we don't emphasize on how much something is like something else, like metaphors do.
Definition[:
Making a comparison between two things without using 'like', 'as', or 'than'. It's something used to represent something else to compare the two unlike things.
Example[:
Just a fraction of your love fills the air,
And I fall in love with you all over again,
You're the light that feeds the sun in my world,
I'd face a thousand years of pain for my girl.
[Common Denominator - Justin Bieber]
Significance[:
Metaphors are important because it shows not only is something like another thing, it shows it without the comparison words, which makes it more like the other thing; showing how strongly that something isso similar to the other thing, almost like it was the other thing. Strong connections will make the reader understand easier.
Definition[:
It's an arrangement of lines, usually it's four, sometimes having a certain length with a rhyme scheme, creating something called a paragraph of a poem.
Example[:
*Stanza.1*
The story starts when it was hot and it was summer and,
I had it all; I had him right there where I wanted him,
She came along, got him along, now let's here the applause,
She took him faster than you can say sabotage.
*Stanza.2*
I never saw it coming, wouldn't have suspected it,
I underestimated just who I was dealing with,
She had to know the pain was beating on me like a drum,
She underestimated just who she was stealing from.
[Better Than Revenge - Taylor Swift]
Significance[:
It separates the poem into bits so that it's easier to read. Like essays and other writings, a different paragraph means another idea. Stanza is another word for a paragraph in poems. It symbolizes another idea in the poem.
Definition[:
The formation of mental description or illustration collectively. Images go through your brain while you hear descriptive words from a writing.
Example[:
I'm five years old,
It's getting cold out,
Got my big coat on.
I hear your laugh,
and look up smiling at you,
I run and run
Pass the pumpkin patch
and the tractor's ride
and now, the sky is gold.
I hug your legs
and fall asleep
on the way home.
[The Best Day - Taylor Swift]
Significance[:
The importance of images in your mind will help you understand and connect with the poem more. How you see the images is based on your concept, it also has to depend on the descriptive words of the poem. Desccriptive poems tend to paint a picture in your mind so you can comprehend the piece of writing while reading it.
A type of literary art in which can be written or spoken to express, to say what you want to say. It can rhyme.
Example[:
A peach is a peach
A plum is a plum
A kiss isn't a kiss
Without some tongue
So open your mouth
Close your eyes
And give your tongue
Some excercise
Significance[:
I think poetry is important because when I think of poetry, I think of rhymes. And I think rhymes are very cool to learn about. It helps with writing songs, and music is important in life.
