poetry

We have analyzed and discussed the following poems this week: "THe Oxen" "getting Out" "We Real Cool" "Blackberry Sweet" "Nothing Gold Can Stay" "Had I The Choice" and "To A Daughter Leaving Home"


Students are to read through chapter 14 by Monday. Students will be given a group assignment next week.

Students also received the following handout for study:

Terms covered in Sound & Sense. Not only must you know the definition of each item on this list, but you must also be able to apply them to the analysis of poetry.


• Connotation/Denotation
• Imagery
• Simile
• Metaphor
• Personification
• Apostrophe
• Metonymy/Synecdoche
• Symbol
• Allegory
• Paradox
• Overstatement/Understatement
• Irony-verbal, dramatic, situation
• Allusion
• Tone
• Repetition
• Alliteration
• Assonance
• Consonance
• Rhyme-masculine, feminine, internal, end, slant
• Refrain
• Rhythm
• Accented/Stressed
• End Stopped Line/Run-on Line
• Caesuras
• Free Verse
• Prose Poem
• Meter
• Foot
• Stanza
• Scansion
• Onomatopoeia
• Structure
• Form
• Sonnet-Italian (Petrarchan)/English (Shakespearean)
• Octave
• Sestet
• Quatrain
• Couplet
• Satire
• Sarcasm