Thursday, May 31, 2012

Rhyme

Definition

 Correspondence of terminal sounds of words or of lines of verse.

Example

It was purchased just for you,
when you're happy or you're blue,
you can wear it on your head,
'round the house or in your bed,
you can wear it in the dark,
while you're ..........

Significance

Rhyme gives a poem a type of flow that makes it unique in comparison to another poem. In turn, making each poem different in a way other than just words.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Rhythm

Definition

The arrangement of words into a more or less regular sequence of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables.

Example

The wind in her hair over there 
The chair that sat with her hair 
Eyes on eyes 
Fire and lye 
in the river sky on I

Significance

Rhythm is the key to keeping a poem interesting by expressing emotion in a pattern and letting you speak with great tone along with meaning.

Repetition

Definition

Repetition of a sound, syllable, word, phrase, line, stanza, or metrical pattern is a basic unifying device in all poetry

Example

Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn....

Significance

It's significant because it shows that the author is trying to emphasize a certain point. He or she is trying to bring whatever they're repeating into the reader's attention.

Tone

Definition

A poem's tone is the attitude that its style implies. 

Example

"All morons hate it when you call them a moron." - Catcher in the Rye

Significance 

Tone lets poets express there emotion through there literature and give the poem a deeper meaning.

Interpretation

Definition

The way you view or "interpret" a subject or being. Not everybody has the same view or interpretation of something, some may view others in a different way than another.

Example

In Recompense
by Eda Lou Walton

Now for the long years when I could not love you,
I bring in recompense this gift of yearning-
A luminous vase uplifted to the sun,
Blue with the shadows of near-twilight.
Here in its full round symmetry of darkness,
Burning with swift curved flashes bright as tears,
I lift it to the lonely lips that knew
Its slow creation, and thw wheel of sorrow turning.
Take it with hands like faded petals,
White as the moonlight of our garden;
And for the long years when I could not love you
Drink from its amber-coloured night.\

Some may view this poem about life, a special other or even a remembrance of the past.

Significance

Interpretation is a key in poetry because it can let the readers make a poem something they can relate to and understand in there own way instead of just seeing it in "tunnel-vision".

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Onomatopoeia

Definition

A sound from a word that is referable to what it is representing.

Example

"Knock-Knock"
Who's there?
Boo.
Boo who?
Don't cry, it's just a joke. 

Significance

Onomatopoeia lets you imagine what the sound is like if you were in the poem. Not only that, but can let you see where the climax is in the poem or where a important segment in the poem is.

Personification

Definition

The act of giving an inanimate object human like attributes. When used in poetry, it can be used to give an idea better by relation to an object or subject.

Example

The blade of grass danced in the summer breeze as the children played near the picnic.

Significance

Personification can be used to give subjects that aren't alive human like abilities to relate. The use of personification is also a way to give the subject a bigger meaning than just being there.