Meter

Definition: A meter is analyzing the poems in patterns. It also shows how many feet there are in the poem.

Example: 

Explanation: Meters in poems is to measure the poems rhythm in patterns. This organizes the poem into a certain way that the poet would want.

Rhyme

Definition: Rhyming in poetry is when the poet uses certain words in a stanza that sound alike usually at the end of a line.

Example: 

(In this poem the poet uses words like wall and fall so that it rhymes and entertains the reader) 

Explanation: Poets use rhyming in poetry to entertain the reader so they would read on and enjoy the poem. It would interest reader and depending on what kind of words they use to rhyme, different audiences enjoy them more or less.

Rhythm

Definition: Rhythm in poetry is the movement of  words that are put into order that reoccur in a certain way.

Example: 

:The rhythm in that poem was steady because every line had the same amount of syllables

Explanation: Rhythm in poetry helps add more interest or it intrigues the reader. The rhythm adds a kind of flow to the poem to make it seem steady and paced. 

Onomatopoeia

Definition: Onomatopoeia is when the poet uses to make the reader hear a sound that something makes.

Example:

Explanation: The poet uses onomatopoeia to make the reader hear a certain sound that something in the poem makes. This adds more intrest for the reader.

Personification

Definition: Personification is when you give something that is not a human being human like attributes.

Example:

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing, through all her works, gave signs of woe. - John Milton

Snow speaks to the people, its falling above in the glooming sunlight. Its white sparkling voice echoes as it falls through the air - Jake

Explanation: A poet might use personification to help add intrest into the poem. The poet would give animals or other things human like qualities so that the reader could relate more too the object or there ideas.

Imagery

Definition: Imagery in poetry is when the author uses certain words to connect with the readers senses so that the readers experience with the poem is better.

Example:

I took a walk around the world to
Ease my troubled mind
I left my body laying somewhere
In the sands of time
I watched the world float to the dark
Side of the moon
I feel there is nothing I can do

--"Kryptonite" by Three Doors Down

Explanation: The poet uses imagery so that the reader can imagine what is going on in the poem better. He would feel more connceted in the poem and he can relate to the poem better. The reader could feel his senses like his taste, touch, hearing, seeing, and hearing if there is imagery in a poem.

Similie

Definition: A similie is describing two things while using like or as.

Example: Explanation: A similie in a poem is used to make the reader picture or compare the object the poet is using. This makes the reader more intrested into the poem and he would feel more connected to the poem.

"Good coffee is like friendship: rich and warm and strong."
(slogan of Pan-American Coffee Bureau)

"You know life, life is rather like opening a tin of sardines. We're all of us looking for the key."
(Alan Bennett, Beyond the Fringe, 1960)

"When Lee Mellon finished the apple he smacked his lips together like a pair of cymbals."
(Richard Brautigan, A Confederate General From Big Sur, 1964)

"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."
(George Eliot, Adam Bede, 1859)

 

Repetition

Definition: Repeptition in a poem is when it repeats a certain word or phrase but not randomly. He repeats the certain word or phrase for a reason.

Example: "O captain! my captain!" is repeated many times in this poem.

O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won;The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:

But O heart! heart! heart!

O the bleeding drops of red,

Where on the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Here Captain! dear father!

This arm beneath your head;

It is some dream that on the deck,

You've fallen cold and dead.

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;

Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!

But I, with mournful tread,

Walk the deck my Captain lies,

Fallen cold and dead.

Significance: The significanse of repetition in a poem is to keep the main i dea of the poem clear. When the poem is repetitive, then it could mean the it wants the reader to focus on one subject instead of different ideas.

Tone

Definition: The tone in a poem  is the set theme or emotion. It helps connect the reader to the emotion of the poem.

Example:

The Pasture

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; (light, informing tone)
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away ("only" tone - reservation)
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may): (supplementary, possibility)
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come too. (free tone, assuring) (after thought, inviting) "Rather well for me" --

I'm going out to fetch the little calf (Similar, free, persuasive, assuring
That's standing by the mother. It's so young, and inviting tones in second stanza)
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long. -- You come to

Significance: The tone in apoem is important because it connects the reader to the poem. The tone helps the reader feel the emotion of the poem and helps the reader understand what the poet wants them to feel while reading it.

Interpretation

Definition: An interpretation is the way someone thinks of something or defines it in there own way

Example:

An Interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s “Color-Caste-Denomination”
“Color-Caste-Denomination”, written by Emily Dickinson, a late 19th century American poet, describes how Death is an undiscriminating and unbiased event that all must go through. She shows that Death will take everyone regardless of his or her race, religion, or status.
Dickinson’s poem portrays race, religion and social status, or standing, as being labels that the world has created. It shows that Death does not pay attention to such labels- they are insignificant in the face of something so universal. As in sleep, in Death race and beliefs are forgotten and unimportant, and any labels accrued while living are erased. When, through Death, mortal classifications and appearances are removed; everyone is a human being underneath- equal, colorless, and free of any earthly labels. It is actually necessary for humans to be removed from those labels, if they are to be taken indiscriminately out of life. Though humans, with their mere worldly intelligence, cannot picture a place where race, religion, and status do not matter, Death is in fact that very place.
Through this poem, Dickinson is pointing out the flaws in Man’s tendency to label and divide peopl

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Significance: An iterpretation is important in poetry because the poet has to make the reader interpret the poem. They can not make the poem straight forward orelse only certain people can understan. If the poem is mysterious, then more readers can interpret it in there own way.

Metaphor/Extended Metaphor

Definition: A metaphor is a literal or poetic phrase used to compare one thing to another without using like or as. An extended metaphor is a grouping of phrases used to compare things without using like or as.

Example: I am a river that finds its way
I am a candle that beams a say
I am a flower that opens wide
I am a bee that works the ride.

I am a caterpillar in a cocoon
I am a butterfly emerging soon
I am a pond that looks within
I am a man of top spin.

Significance: The significance of the metaphors and extended metaphors are that it helps the reader see what the speaker wants us to see. This also adds more excitment and it intrigues the reader to read on

Speaker

Definition: The speaker in a poem is the one telling the story in his perspective. It does not always have to be the writer who is the speaker, though it could be.

Example: a pretty a day by E. E. Cummings

a pretty a day
(and every fades)
is here and away
(but born are maids
to flower an hour
in all,all)

o yes to flower
until so blithe
a doer a wooer
some limber and lithe
some very fine mower
a tall;tall

some jerry so very
(and nellie and fan)
some handsomest harry
(and sally and nan
they tremble and cower
so pale:pale)

for betty was born
to never say nay
but lucy could learn
and lily could pray
and fewer were shyer
than doll. doll

Significance: The significance of the speaker is that when you have different perspectives, more people can connect with the poem if they felt the same way. It could be one idea in one poem by one author, then another speaker in another poem by the same author. 

Symbol

Definition: The symbol in poetry are words that make the reader feel the 5 senses. They are smell, taste, touch, hear, and sight.

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Explanation: Symbolism in poetry is used to intrigue the reader and to help him see what is going on in the story of the poem. This will add more interest for the reader.

Couplet

Definition: A couplet is two lines the are joined by a rhyme.

Example:

Explanation: The couplet helps intrest and entertain the reader with its rhyme. It also intrigues the reader and gives an idea about the poem

Stanza

Definition- A stanza is a grouping of words and lines in a poem that divides the poem into sections.

Example:



Explanation:  A stanza is used in a poem to organize the ideas of the poem and it helps the reader understand how it should be read and understood.