Interpretation

INTERPRETATION

Definition: explanation of the meaning of something

Example:  All that I love
I fold over once
And once again
And keep in a box
Or a slit in a hollow post
Or in my shoe.

All that I love?
Why, yes, but for the moment-
And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps easy,
Son's note or Dad's one gaudy tie,
A roto picture of a queen,
A blue Indian shawl, even
A money bill.

It's utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart's control
Moment to moment
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand's size

Till seashells are broken pieces
From God's own bright teeth,
And life and love are real
Things you can run and
Breathless hand over
To the merest child.

Significance:  to understand the poems

Assonance

ASSONANCE
Definition: the repetition of similar vowel sounds, but different consonants in a line
Example: She sells seashells on the seashore


Significance: For me, I really like to read poems that repeat something like assonance. It makes the poems more fun to read.

Meter

METER
Definition: the pattern of how should we read in poems
Example: picture next to it.
Significance: shows people the way we should read the poems. If there are not patterns, we would read the poems with the same tone, and that makes it boring.

Odes

ODES
Definition: a long poem that celebrates something
Example:  Fly me to your heavenly garden of peace
With your pure and perfect pallid wings
Carry me to my fairest hopes and dreams
And put my feet up on your red roses bed.

Bless my mornings with your comforting touch
And feed me with your sweetest smiles
I'll drink your tears to heal my pains
And live with you forevermore.

Guide me to my future successes
With your eyes so angelic and divine
Sing your most romantic melodies
Erase my worries and perflexities.

O my dearly beloved angel of heavens
Your smell I breathe awakens me
Embrace me with your warmest arms
Forever I will live with thee.

Significance: When you celebrate something about someone, and you write poems about it, it shows that - that person has done something great that makes other people respect.

Couplet

COUPLET
Definition: two lines that rhymes at the end

Example: I found a starfish in the bay
               When I was fishing yesterday
               Starfish, starfish in the ocean
               Moving along in slow motion

Significance: Just like others, couplet will make the poems more interesting and fun to read.

Onomatopeia

ONOMATOPOEIA

Definition:  words are used to imitate sounds
Example: Baa baa black sheep, have you any wool?
Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full!
One for the master, one for the dame,
And one for the little boy who lives down the lane. 

Significance: Onomatopoeia makes the poem sounds more fun. While we read we can hear the sounds in our ears like sheep, dogs, deers, cats, ...

Lyric

LYRIC
Definition: form of poetry that express personal's feelings.

Example:

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
 

The stillness round my form
 

Was like the stillness in the air
 

Between the heaves of storm.

Significance: it's like writing a song that shows personal's feelings. These feelings can come from experiences.

Extended Metaphor

EXTENDED METAPHOR
Definition: A metaphor compares two things that are not alike, its continues the comparison into the rest of the sentence

Example:  My room is heaven

with its clouds on the walls
that are lit with a luminous glow from
the gentle morning sun.
That light is the key that opens my
eyes.
The pillows on my bed are as fluffy as clouds
and as soft as a baby's bottom.
The birds' chirping is like angels singing in my
ears.
I am a God in my room and nothing else matters.

Significance:  Extended metaphor is just like metaphor, but metaphor- they just compare to one thing--- for extended metaphor, the writers will compare one thing to many things throughout the poems

Rythm

 
RHYTHM
Definition: the movements of beat

Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited. 

Significance: If there is no rhythm at all, the poems will sound boring 

Alliteration

ALLITERATION
Definition: Repetition of the same words or sounds
Example:  

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.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.

Significance: make the poems more interesting 

Elegy

 
ELEGY
Definition: sad and thoughtful poem of a death of a person

Example:  
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Significance: Allow you to express your feeling. If you can't express your feeling to someone, then write poems to express it.

Sonnet

SONNET
Definition: has 14 lines with iambic pentameter

Example: I will put Chaos into fourteen lines
And keep him there; and let him thence escape
If he be lucky; let him twist, and ape
Flood, fire, and demon--his adroit designs
Will strain to nothing in the strict confines
Of this sweet Order, where, in pious rape,
I hold his essence and amorphous shape,
Till he with Order mingles and combines.
Past are the hours, the years, or our duress,
His arrogance, our awful servitude:
I have him. He is nothing more than less
Than something simple not yet understood;
I shall not even force him to confess;
Or answer. I will only make him good.
 Significance:  Shakespeare used sonnets a lot. Sonnet only have 14 lines, so the writers must follow this, and can't continue on and on.

Epic

EPIC
Definition: Long narrative poems that tell stories of heroes

Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited. 

Significance:  Writing a story about a hero in a essay way is kind of boring, so if we write in a poem, it will be more interesting and easier to understand.

Poems

Poems

Ballads

BALLAD

Definition: tells a story that often about love

Example:
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

Significance:  It's like a song that use simple words that usually a sad story of love

Free Verse

FREE VERSE

Definition: it's a term of styles of poetry that is not rhyme.

Example: Spoken--a word implicit.
To believe everything
You say--how can
I give you what I am not given?
But I do--
I would, and I will.
And I let you
Keep pieces of me
Locked, keyed to you
Secretly--only I
Can no longer
Be sure of finding them--
You will tell me,
I or you
Right or wrong.

Significance: Free verse makes it easier to write poems and it is fun to write since there are no rules.

Narrative

NARRATIVE

Definition: poetry that tells a story.

Example:

There was three kings into the east,
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.

Sinificance: narrative poem is more interesting that narrative essay. It helps children to understand the stories better and also better than reading a page that full of words.

Imagery

IMAGERY

Definition: to pull the readers' attention by make them imagine the pictures or sense it.

Example: the picture.

Significance: Imagery makes poems more interesting and it helps readers to understand the poems easier by the 5 senses.

Line

LINE

Definition: a line of words in a poem

Example:

You may not understand,
Why I do what I do.
But you never criticized,
You just helped my through.

Significance: Lines break poems into different stanza (like 4-5 lines is equal to one stanza)

Stanza

STANZA
Definition: paragraphs (usually four or more) which create a poem.

Example:
Whenever you're sad,
or feeling blue,                  ===>>>> STANZA
Just call on me.
I'll be here for you.

Whenever you're happy,
or feeling sad,
Just call on me.
You are going to be glad that you had.


Significance: Stanza makes the poem looks simple and easier to read. It also makes the poem more interesting

Rhyme

RHYME
Definition: two or more words having the same last syllable sound


Example:
Broken dams and fading memories
Nights in blue with lights and sound
Something moving in the distance
Kill it when it comes around.

Significance: rhyme in poems for children makes it fun to read aloud to young students, and can sometimes makes adult poems interesting.

Symbol

SYMBOL
Definition: an object or something that represents somethng else


Significance: symbol is like pictures that help you to see and understand the poems.

Example: 

Tone

TONE
Definition: the tone is the sound of the poem when read

Example:

Significance: Tone can also helps you to understand the poems, because the way we read can show the feeling and the meaning of the poems

Metaphor

METAPHOR
Definition:  directly comparing two things with each other; no connection words

Example: Our friend George is just a big baby.

Significance: It's more challenging to read than simile because it gets readers thinking what it actually means

Speaker

SPEAKER 
Definition:  a person who speaks in front of people
Example:   "i have a dream that one day..." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Significance: We need to read aloud to understand the poems along with the expressions/feelings it contains

Personification

PERSONIFICATION
Definition: Objects being described with human personalities
Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
Significance: People use personification to make poems more interesting or to attract readers attention.

Simile

SIMILE
Definition: compare two things with each other using connecting words (like or as).
Example:
Friends are like chocolate cake
You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven
Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces.
Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.”
Significance: It is important to use simile because it helps we as teenagers or children to understand the poem easier.

Poetry

Definition: form of literary art in which feelings can be expressed or to tell a story.

Example: 
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

Significance:  Reading poetry makes you to think of the words and what is the meaning of that poetry. You can look at form of the poem (like how the poem looks like) to understand the meaning of it. Writing poetry can make you be more creative while expressed your feelings and to tell your own  thoughts.