21st Century

• José Garcia Villa


  was born in Manila in 1908. He attended the University of the Philippines, but he was suspended in 1929 after publishing a series of erotic poems, titled “Man-Songs,” in the Philippines Herald Magazine. That same year, he won a short story contest through the Philippines Free Press and used the prize money to travel to the United States, where he studied at the University of New Mexico.
• The Human Brain is:

  • Divided into 2 parts
  • Each half has its own function
• Left Brain:


  Logic

  Reality

  Literal
• Right Brain:


  Creativity

  Emotions

  Figurative
• Poetry


  A type of literature that expresses ideas, feelings, or tells a story in a specific form (usually using lines and stanzas)
• Traditional


  Forms: Epic, ode, ballad, sonnet, haiku, limerick

  Follows specific rules, Regular pattern of rhyme, rhythm, meter
• Organic


  No rules, No regular pattern of rhythm, meter, & may/may not have rhyme  Forms: free verse, concrete poetry
• Elements of Poetry


  Form, Line, Stanza
• Form


  the appearance of the words on the page
• Line


  a group of words together on one line of the poem
• Stanza


  a group of lines arranged together
• Rhythm 


  The beat created by the sounds of the words in a poem
• Rhythm 


  can be created by meter, rhyme, alliteration and refrain.
• Meter


  A pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• Meter


  occurs when the stressed and unstressed syllables of the words in a poem are arranged in a repeating pattern.
• Meter


  -measured in “FEET” -length of a line in poetry (measured by how many feet are in it) -depends on the rhythm used

  -1 foot = 1 set of rhythm (set of stressed & unstressed syllables)
• Iambic/Trochaic


  1 foot of poetry has 2 syllables
• Anapestic/Dactylic


  1 foot of poetry has 3 syllables
• Foot


  unit of meter
• A foot can have how many syllables?

  two or three syllables.
• Types of Poetic Measurements…


  1: Monometer

  2: Dimeter

  3: Trimeter

  4: Tetrameter

  5: Pentameter

  6: Hexameter

  7: Heptameter

  8: Octameter
• Rhyme


  Words sound alike because they share the same ending vowel and consonant sounds.
• END RHYME


  A word at the end of one line rhymes with a word at the end of another line
• INTERNAL RHYME


  A word inside a line rhymes with another word on the same line.
• NEAR RHYME


  -a.k.a imperfect rhyme, close rhyme

  -The words share EITHER the same vowel or consonant sound BUT NOT BOTH
• RHYME SCHEME


  A rhyme scheme is a pattern of rhyme (usually end rhyme, but not always).
• ONOMATOPOEIA

  Words that imitate the sound they are naming BUZZ OR sounds that imitate another sound
• ALLITERATION

  Consonant sounds repeated at the beginnings of words
• ALLITERATION

  If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
• ONOMATOPOEIA

  “The silken, sad, uncertain, rustling of each purple curtain . . .”
• CONSONANCE

  Similar to alliteration EXCEPT …

  The repeated consonant sounds can be anywhere in the words
• ASSONANCE

  Repeated VOWEL sounds in a line or lines of poetry.

  (Often creates near rhyme.)
• ASSONANCE

  “Slow the low gradual moan came in the snowing.”
• Refrain

  entire stanza is repeated throughout a poem

  like a chorus of a song
• poetry

  writing chosen and arranged to create a certain emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm