Friday, May 3, 2013

Friday, May 3, 2013

Agenda:

Finish Poetry Stations. Finalize discussion on To a Poor Old Women by William Carlos Williams.

Homework:

1. There will be a quiz on Scansion on Tuesday based on the video in the previous post below. You can attempt a practice exam on the online quiz by going to the link HERE. 

2. Find a poetry book to keep in your back pocket and read during this very short unit. Post a poem you like from the selection below in the comments. Identify the rhyme scheme, rhythm and meter if there is one, and comment on the form of the poem.

3. Attempt to write a thesis based on the prompt in the previous post and three topic sentences. Have a hard copy ready to add to your notes regarding To a Poor Old Women by William Carlos Williams.


34 comments:

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  2. By Alexander Sergio Pushkin

    I loved you once...

    i LOVED/ you ONCE/: perHAPS/ that LOVE/ has YET
    To DIE/ down THOROUGHLY/ with IN/ my SOUL;
    But LET/ it NOT/ disMAY/ you ANY/ lonGER;
    i HAVE/ no WISH/ to CAUSE/ you ANY/ SOrrow./

    IampTetrameter

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  3. Iambic Pentameter - Romeo Juliet
    But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
    It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
    Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon,
    Who is already sick and pale with grief,
    That thou her maid art far more fair than she:
    Be not her maid, since she is envious;
    Her vestal livery is but sick and green
    And none but fools do wear it; cast it off.

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  4. trochaic tetrameter (the fourth feet is incomplete)

    Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    In what distant deeps or skies
    Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
    On what wings dare he aspire?
    What the hand dare seize the fire?

    What the hammer? what the chain?
    In what furnace was thy brain?
    What the anvil? what dread grasp
    Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

    Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye,
    Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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  5. Iambic Tetrameter

    Hope is the thing with feathers
    That perches in the soul,
    And sings the tune without the words,
    And never stops at all,

    And sweetest in the gale is heard;
    And sore must be the storm
    That could abash the little bird
    That kept so many warm.

    I've heard it in the chillest land,
    And on the strangest sea;
    Yet, never, in extremity,
    It asked a crumb of me.


    - Emily Dickinson

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  6. As I Grew Older - Langston Hughes
    (Iambic Tetrameter)

    It was a long time ago.
    I have almost forgotten my dream.
    But it was there then,
    In front of me,
    Bright like a sun-
    My dream.
    And then the wall rose,
    Rose slowly,
    Slowly,
    Between me and my dream.
    Rose until it touched the sky-
    The wall.
    Shadow.
    I am black.
    I lie down in the shadow.
    No longer the light of my dream before me,
    Above me.
    Only the thick wall.
    Only the shadow.
    My hands!
    My dark hands!
    Break through the wall!
    Find my dream!
    Help me to shatter this darkness,
    To smash this night,
    To break this shadow
    Into a thousand lights of sun,
    Into a thousand whirling dreams
    Of sun!

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  7. American Heartbreak, by Langston Hughes

    I am the American heartbreak -
    The rock on which Freedom
    Stumped its toe-
    The great mistake
    That Jamestown made
    Long ago.

    The rhyme scheme is : A, B, C, A, D, C
    There is no clear meter, as the lines have inconsistent meters. However, the overarching rhythm is Iambic, with the exceptions of the third and sixth line, which is Trochaic.
    If broken up line for line, the meter and rhythm is:
    Iambic Tetrameter (+ one unemphasized syllable)
    Iambic Trimeter
    Trochaic Monometer (+ one emphasized syllable)
    Iambic Dimeter
    Iambic Dimeter
    Trochaic Monometer (+ one emphasized syllable)

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  8. A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson

    A Bird came down the Walk
    He did not know I saw
    He bit an Angleworm in halves
    And ate the fellow, raw,

    And then he drank a Dew
    From a convenient Grass
    And then hopped sidewise to the Wall
    To let a Beetle pass

    He glanced with rapid eyes
    That hurried all around-
    They looked like frightened Beads, I thought-
    He stirred his Velvet Head

    Like one in danger; Cautious
    I offered him a Crumb
    And he unrolled his feathers
    And rowed him softer home-

    Than Oars divide the Ocean
    Too silver for a seam-
    Or Butterflies, off Banks of Noon
    Leap, plashless as they swim

    Iambic Trimeter (For every third line of each stanza, iambic tetrameter)

    Form:
    Five 4-Line stanza's
    Rhyme:
    A
    B
    C
    B

    A
    B
    C
    B

    then shifts to a form that I am not sure about. Probably
    A
    B
    C
    D

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  9. The Red Wheelbarrow

    so much depends
    upon

    a red wheel
    barrow

    glazed with rain
    water

    beside the white
    chickens

    -William Carlos Williams


    No Rhyme Scheme, does not rhyme
    Free Verse
    Emphasis/pause on the words upon, barrow, water, and chicken.

    BRIAN OH

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  10. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    BY ROBERT FROST
    Whose woods these are I think I know.
    His house is in the village though;
    He will not see me stopping here
    To watch his woods fill up with snow.

    My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a farmhouse near
    Between the woods and frozen lake
    The darkest evening of the year.

    He gives his harness bells a shake
    To ask if there is some mistake.
    The only other sound’s the sweep
    Of easy wind and downy flake.

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

    (Iambic Tetrameter)
    rhyme scheme: AABA CCDC EEFE GGGG

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  11. The Road Not Taken- Robert Frost


    Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
    And sorry I could not travel both
    And be one traveler, long I stood
    And looked down one as far as I could
    To where it bent in the undergrowth;

    Then took the other, as just as fair,
    And having perhaps the better claim,
    Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
    Though as for that the passing there
    Had worn them really about the same,

    And both that morning equally lay
    In leaves no step had trodden black.
    Oh, I kept the first for another day!
    Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
    I doubted if I should ever come back.

    I shall be telling this with a sigh
    Somewhere ages and ages hence:
    Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
    I took the one less traveled by,
    And that has made all the difference.

    [iambic tetrameter, but some anapests]
    rhyme scheme: ABAAB CDCCD EFEEF GHGGH

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  12. Acquainted with the Night
    By Robert Frost

    I have been one acquainted with the night.

    I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain.

    I have outwalked the furthest city light.

    I have looked down the saddest city lane.

    Iambic Pentameter
    Rhyme Scheme: ABAB

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  13. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shell Silerstein

    There is a place where the sidewalk ends
    And before the street begins,
    And there the grass grows soft and white,
    And there the sun burns crimson bright,
    And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
    To cool in the peppermint wind.

    Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
    And the dark street winds and bends.
    Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
    We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
    To the place where the sidewalk ends.

    Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
    For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
    The place where the sidewalk ends.

    rhyme scheme: AABBBC DAEEEA EEEA
    Includes anapestic tetrameter and iambic tetrameter

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  14. There Will Come Soft Rains
    By: Sara Teasdale

    There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
    And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

    And frogs in the pools singing at night,
    And wil plum-trees in tremulous white;

    Robins will wear their feathery fire
    Whistling theirs whims on a low fence-wire;

    And not one will know of the war, not one
    Will care at last when it is done.

    Not on would mind, neither bird nor tree
    If mankind perished utterly;

    And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
    Would scarcely know that we were gone.

    rhyme scheme: AA, BB, CC, DD, EE, FF
    Iambic tetrameter

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  15. I'm nobody! Who are you? - Emily Dickinson

    I'm nobody! Who are you?
    Are you nobody, too?
    Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
    They'd advertise -- you know!

    How dreary to be somebody!
    How public like a frog
    To tell one's name the livelong day
    To an admiring bog!

    rhyme scheme: AA,BB, CDCD
    Iambic Trimeter

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  17. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
    BY ROBERT FROST
    Whose woods these are I think I know.
    His house is in the village though;
    He will not see me stopping here
    To watch his woods fill up with snow.

    My little horse must think it queer
    To stop without a farmhouse near
    Between the woods and frozen lake
    The darkest evening of the year.

    He gives his harness bells a shake
    To ask if there is some mistake.
    The only other sound’s the sweep
    Of easy wind and downy flake.

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

    Rhyme scheme: AABA BBCB CCDC DDDD
    Iambic tetrameter

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  18. A Late Walk by Robert Frost

    When I go up through the mowing field,
    The headless aftermath,
    Smooth-laid like thatch with the heavy dew,
    Half closes the garden path.

    And when I come to the garden ground,
    The whir of sober birds
    Up from the tangle of withered weeds
    Is sadder than any words

    A tree beside the wall stands bare,
    But a leaf that lingered brown,
    Disturbed, I doubt not, by my thought,
    Comes softly rattling down.

    I end not far from my going forth
    By picking the faded blue
    Of the last remaining aster flower
    To carry again to you.

    Rhyme Scheme: ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK
    Iambic tetrameter and dactylic tetrameter

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  19. A Dream Within A Dream
    By Edger Allen Poe

    Take this kiss upon the brow!

    And, in parting from you now,

    Thus much let me avow-
    You are not wrong, who deem

    That my days have been a dream;

    Yet if hope has flown away

    In a night, or in a day,

    In a vision, or in none,

    Is it therefore the less gone?

    All that we see or seem

    Is but a dream within a dream.



    I stand amid the roar

    Of a surf-tormented shore,

    And I hold within my hand

    Grains of the golden sand-
    How few! yet how they creep

    Through my fingers to the deep,

    While I weep- while I weep!

    O God! can I not grasp

    Them with a tighter clasp?

    O God! can I not save

    One from the pitiless wave?

    Is all that we see or seem

    But a dream within a dream?

    (Anapestic diameter)
    Rhyme Scheme: AAABBCCDDBB EEFFGGGGGHHBB

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  20. Simpler Days by Michael Lewis

    The windows in my mind have panes of green.
    Through each, do I admire a different view.
    In one I found a most in inspiring scene,
    One day as I was casually peering through.
    Beyond the grass and Rosa Moyesii,
    With fairest skin and blazing copper hair,
    She looked inside my pane and into me,
    With memories from smiling eyes so rare,
    As though what she found there in my gaze,
    Reminded her of home, and simpler days.

    Iambic Pentameter
    Rhyme Scheme: ABAB

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  21. A Strange Wild Song
    by Lewis Carroll

    He thought he saw an Elephant
    That practised on a fife:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A letter from his wife.
    "At length I realize," he said,
    "The bitterness of life!"

    He thought he saw a Buffalo
    Upon the chimney-piece:
    He looked again, and found it was
    His Sister's Husband's Niece.
    "Unless you leave this house," he said,
    "I'll send for the police!"

    he thought he saw a Rattlesnake
    That questioned him in Greek:
    He looked again, and found it was
    The Middle of Next Week.
    "The one thing I regret," he said,
    "Is that it cannot speak!"

    He thought he saw a Banker's Clerk
    Descending from the bus:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A Hippopotamus.
    "If this should stay to dine," he said,
    "There won't be much for us!"

    He thought he saw a Kangaroo
    That worked a Coffee-mill:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A Vegetable-Pill.
    "Were I to swallow this," he said,
    "I should be very ill!"

    He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four
    That stood beside his bed:
    He looked again, and found it was
    A Bear without a Head.
    "Poor thing," he said, "poor silly thing!
    It's waiting to be fed!"

    Iambic tetrameter
    and
    Iambic trimeter

    Rhyme Scheme: ABCBDB EFGFHF IJKJLJ MNONPN QRSRTR UVWVXV

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  22. Whatif by Shel Silverstein

    Last night, while I lay thinking here,
    some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
    and pranced and partied all night long
    and sang their same old Whatif song:
    Whatif I'm dumb in school?
    Whatif they've closed the swimming pool?
    Whatif I get beat up?
    Whatif there's poison in my cup?
    Whatif I start to cry?
    Whatif I get sick and die?
    Whatif I flunk that test?
    Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
    Whatif nobody likes me?
    Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?
    Whatif I don't grow talle?
    Whatif my head starts getting smaller?
    Whatif the fish won't bite?
    Whatif the wind tears up my kite?
    Whatif they start a war?
    Whatif my parents get divorced?
    Whatif the bus is late?
    Whatif my teeth don't grow in straight?
    Whatif I tear my pants?
    Whatif I never learn to dance?
    Everything seems well, and then
    the nighttime Whatifs strike again!

    Rhyme Scheme: Pairs of rhyming endwords i.e. AABBCCDDEEFF...
    Iambic Triameter/Tetrameter, It varies in length throughout mainly between Triameter and Tetrameter.

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  23. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher Marlowe
    It is an iambic tetrameter poem.
    The rhyme scheme is AABB.

    Come live with me and be my Love,
    And we will all the pleasures prove
    That hills and valleys, dale and field,
    And all the craggy mountains yield.

    There will we sit upon the rocks
    And see the shepherds feed their flocks,
    By shallow rivers, to whose falls
    Melodious birds sing madrigals.

    There will I make thee beds of roses
    And a thousand fragrant posies,
    A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
    Embroider'd all with leaves of myrtle.

    A gown made of the finest wool
    Which from our pretty lambs we pull,
    Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
    With buckles of the purest gold.

    A belt of straw and ivy buds
    With coral clasps and amber studs:
    And if these pleasures may thee move,
    Come live with me and be my Love.

    Thy silver dishes for thy meat
    As precious as the gods do eat,
    Shall on an ivory table be
    Prepared each day for thee and me.

    The shepherd swains shall dance and sing
    For thy delight each May-morning:
    If these delights thy mind may move,
    Then live with me and be my Love.

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  24. Peppermint Pigs
    By: Giorgio Veneto

    They come and go uncalled and BOLD
    beseech in souls folklore REDEMPTION
    demand and hide in pig DECEPTION,
    conglomerate a sinful MOLD.

    Like flying pigs odd worlds in CLOUDS,
    deceived dream songs called for and POSED,
    called for and posed in heavens CLOSED,
    with other lives assessed in SHROUDS.

    Abstemious were our lives in CAVES,
    stars' overreach, offered pigs' LIFTS,
    peppermint's scent in festal DRINKS,
    with purgatory beat death's RAVES.

    Verse cadence words will fit to SHARE,
    will fit to share the pulse we SEND,
    our heart beats abstractly DEFEND,
    peppermint pigs that were ENSNARED.

    Rhyme Scheme: ABBA CDDC EFFE GHHG
    Iambic Pentameter

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  25. Interior
    Dorothy Parker

    Her mind lives in a quiet room,
    A narrow room, and tall,
    With pretty lamps to quench the gloom
    And mottoes on the wall.

    There all the things are waxen neat
    And set in decorous lines;
    And there are posies, round and sweet,
    And little, straightened vines.

    Her mind lives tidily, apart
    From cold and noise and pain,
    And bolts the door against her heart,
    Out wailing in the rain.

    Rhyming Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF
    Iambic Tetrameter and Iambic Trimeter

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  26. Put Something In
    ~Shel Silverstein

    Draw a crazy picture,
    Write a nutty poem,
    Sing a mumble-gumble song,
    Whistle through your comb.
    Do a loony-goony dance
    ‘Cross the kitchen floor,
    Put something silly in the world
    That ain’t been there before.

    Rhyme Scheme: aabcbcde
    Begins off as a Trochee hexameter, later becomes heptameter a pentameter and then some odd dactylic heptameter, lastly with iambic hexameter

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  27. I chose the poem "Dreams" by Langston Hughes

    Hold fast to dreams (iambic dimeter)
    For if dreams die (iambic dimeter)
    Life is a broken-winged bird (incomplete dactylic trimeter)
    That cannot fly. (iambic dimeter)

    Hold fast to dreams (iambic dimeter)
    For when dreams go (iambic dimeter)
    Life is a barren field (dactylic dimeter)
    Frozen with snow. (incomplete dactylic dimeter)

    The rhyme scheme is ABCB ADED
    I think many of the lines of the poem are of different meter, as stated next to the line. It was difficult to determine for some, but I tried my best. Most of the lines of this poem have 4 syllables, except the 3rd line of each verse, which have 7 (1st verse) /6 (2nd verse) syllables.

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  28. This Is Just To Say
    By William Carlos Willimas

    I have eaten
    the plums
    that were in
    the icebox

    and which
    you were probably
    saving
    for breakfast

    Forgive me
    they were delicious
    so sweet
    and so cold

    The poem is a free verse poem, and therefore there does not have a specific rhyme scheme, rhythm, or meter. However I do believe that the poet intentionally made this poem in this specific form. The three stanzas are separated into three little squares, like three little, brief notes that he left to someone on the way out.

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  29. Money by Narayan Chandra Samal

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    Brighter than sunshine, sweeter than honey. (Possibly Dactylic Hexameter)

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    It brings luxury & comfort it makes life funny. (Iambic Octometer)

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    People come to you if you have lot of money. (Iambic Pentameter)

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    People leave you alone if you don’t have money. (Iambic Hexameter)

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    Who uses it carefully they are very brainy. (Iambic Hexameter)

    Money money money (Iambic Trimeter)
    Whatever it may be, I love only man not money. (Iambic Hectameter)


    This poem's rhyme scheme is AAAAAAAAAAAA.

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  30. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

    There is a place where the sidewalk ends
    And before the street begins,
    And there the grass grows soft and white,
    And there the sun burns crimson bright,
    And there the moon-bird rests from his flight
    To cool in the peppermint wind.

    Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
    And the dark street winds and bends.
    Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
    We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And watch where the chalk-white arrows go
    To the place where the sidewalk ends.

    Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
    And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,
    For the children, they mark, and the children, they know
    The place where the sidewalk ends.

    The poem's rhyme scheme is [ABCCCB DAFFFA FFFA].
    The meter varies and is very unclear in many instances however I have written below the lines that i thought did have a distinct meter.

    And there the grass grows soft and white, (iambic tetrameter)
    And there the sun burns crimson bright,(iambic tetrameter)
    We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,(anapestic tetrameter)
    For the children, they mark, and the children, they know (anapestic tetrameter)

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    1. However it is clear that there were words even in those lines with unclear meters, that the author clearly wanted to emphasize and deemphasize. For example:

      and beFORE the STREET beGINS,
      and the DARK street WINDS and BENDS

      These lines are very close to being an iambic trimeter or tetrameter. It is just that the line has an anapestic rhythm on the first foot.

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  31. THE DAD WHO LIVED TO REGRET BEING MEAN TO HIS KID (From Yukon Ho!, page 101 - Calvin and Hobbes :) )

    Numbers are syllable count, the letters are for rhyme scheme.

    Iambic... Penta - Hexa - Hepta - Nonameter (it has all 3 of these specific meters in different lines)

    Barney’s dad was really bad, 7a
    So Barney hatched a plan. 6a
    When his dad said “Eat your peas!” 7b
    Barney shouted “No!” and ran. 7a
    Barney tricked his mean ol’ dad 7a
    And locked him in the cellar, 7c
    His mom never found out where he’d gone 9d
    Cause Barney didn’t tell her 7c
    There his dad spent his life, 6e
    Eating mice and gruel. 5f
    With every bite for fifty years 8g
    He was sorry he’d been cruel.7 f
    THE END

    Although this poem wasn't a part of a poem collection, Bill Watterson has done plenty of poems in his comic series, Calvin and Hobbes. This is a very peculiar yet funny poem. Its format is a bit confusing at first, but when read properly, the rhythm fits. However, it is hard to identify it with a specific meter, rhyming pattern, or scheme.

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  32. The Tyger - William Blake

    Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
    In the forests of the night,
    What immortal hand or eye
    Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

    Rhyme scheme is AABB

    4 Trochee - irregular

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