Images, Genre & Mode, Speaker, Words, Lines, Stanzas

Imagism, Surrealism, Confessionalist poetry and Language Poetry

“an image is which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time”- Ezra Pound, does not mean its made up of images all poems are made up of images, short, concrete and concise language, not personal/ cannot see poet

“the world of dream and the real world are one and the same”-Andre Breton, attempted to portray, express, or interpret the workings of the subconscious mind, dreamlike images, non logical structure. Be fearless and get weird.

confessionalist poets write from material from their own lives, does not equal first person, normally a poem about a deep sorrow, pain or taboo like suicide or homicidal thoughts

highly meta poetic, rejects first person, rejects unified poem, use of multiple discourses( a language by a group) rejects the neo-confessional lyric

epic, dramatic and lyric

lyric, narrative, and metapoetic

long narrative, tale of hero

Plays (think of Shakespeare), Dramatic Monologue, Speaker takes on a persona

Sestina, Villanelle, elegy, ballad, sonnet

personal expression. mental process: perception, description, emotion, ideas, internal/psychological

storytelling, sequence of events, focus on external world/ sociological

focus on language itself, poetry about poetry, meta fiction, attention to process of writing/ creating poem, language poetry

a poem of serious reflection, lament of the dead

long narrative about heroic dead

narrative by imagined person revenging aspects

narrating in short stanzas

expressing the writer’s emotions

19 line poem

6 stanzas final triplet

4 quatrains 2 rhyming couplets

5 possible rhymes

Italian sonnet, consisting of an octave and a meter of abbaabba, 8 line stanza then split into 6 line stanza

an incomplete foot or lacking of syllable at end, in falling rhymes (trochaic and dactylic)

in rising rhyme scheme, a line in verse that ends with an unstressed syllable

use of a closely associated term

use of part of a whole

unrhymed iambic pentameter

no regular rhyme or meter

the default meter of the English language

2 beats

3 beats

4 beats

5 beats

6 beats

repetition of an initial sound

repetition of a vowel sound (Scott/Squall)

repetition of constant patter w/ different vowels (pitter /patter)

R, L, W

M N NG

P B T D K G

F V H TH

S Z SH

I (buy) A (bay) E (bee)

oo (boo) o (home) o (hook) aw *(brought) oi (buy) ow (bough) ah (bar)

the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning

the literal or primary meaning of a word

repetition of opening word

opposition of A and B

list of different formulations of the same thing

an X like arrangement

comparison without like or as

a disappointing end to an exciting or impressive series of events

verse that presents a list of people, objects or abstract qualities

rhetorical question may have an obvious answer but the questioner asks rhetorical questions to lay emphasis to the point.

In literature, a rhetorical question is self-evident and used for style as an impressive persuasive device.

direct address to an absent person or nonhuman thing

a statement or proposition that, despite sound (or apparently sound) reasoning from acceptable premises, leads to a conclusion that seems senseless, logically unacceptable, or self-contradictory.

the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named (e.g., cuckoo, sizzle ).

the state of being parallel or of corresponding in some way.the use of successive verbal constructions in poetry or prose that correspond in grammatical structure, sound, meter, meaning

he use of indirect and multiple words within speech or writing.an indirect and circumlocutory phrase

the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.

a joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words that sound alike but have different meanings

a comparison using like or as