Rhyme

Rhyme: the same sound in the end of a verse in a poem
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Friendz

© Kayla Coffey

Opposites
I say yes and you say no
I say bye and you say hello
Butterfly's fly and penguins swim
Professionals lie and adventures go on whim
If you go up I go down
An emo to a happy clown
Girlie girls pink and fat ones brown
Smiles right side up and frowns up side down
A rainbow to a black plain thing
A monotone to an opera sing
A rainy cloud to a sunny day
Bright colors and something gray
A beginning to an ending
A broken heart and then something mending

The significance of rhyme in poetry is that it allows the reader to easily read the poem naturally with lots of flow. Not all poetry has rhyming in it but when rhyming is present in poetry it creates a beautiful arrangement of words that the poet created. Without rhyming in poetry a major part of poetry would be taken out and the ease of speaking naturally would be gone as well.

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Rhythm

Rhythm: movement or pattern of a beat in a poem
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Music Of My Life

© Kacey Storm

The music takes my soul
Takes it through the wind, and around the autumn trees
As the earth turns slowly
Each song, makes me wonder what really goes on while I'm asleep.
As a disco ball shines through my dreams.
I wish I was awake, as the music plays.
And wished instead of school, I'd get to party and dance all day.
As one song makes you move, and happy
The other makes you cry, and sappy.
Each song with its own act,
Life reacts back.
As each tune, makes you
the way you are
That's why I'm kind of bizarre.
It's hard to believe your song,
is more than just a song
Or a bell is more than a bell.
And a voice, could be as bad as hell
You could lose your soul
Regain it again, each feeling fills you full
As each tune tells you what to do.
Nothing is better than the feeling of the music's 'tude.

The significance of rhythm in a poem is that it makes the words flow with an ease of speaking. Without rhythm in a poem there wouldn't be that natural flow of speaking that we usually speak with. If you took out rhythm in poetry you wouldn't be able to make a poem that people would understand easily because rhythm helps people decode the poets message.

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onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia: words in poetry that sounds the same as it being said.
Ex:

Mom & Dad Are Home

Slam! Slam!
Go the car doors.
Jangle! Jangle!
Go the house keys.
Jiggle! Jiggle!
Go the keys in the door.
Squeak!
Goes the front door!
Thump! Thump!
That is me running down the stairs.
Guess what?
Mom and Dad are home!!
Onomatopoeia is important in poems because you can give words the same sound as the action. Also, adding creative words that sound the same as they are said really gets you thinking about about what the poem is trying to say.

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Personifaction

Personifaction: giving a person that isn't a human a human's features.

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The signifigance of personifaction in poetry is important because you are describing a non-human a regular human's features which makes reading poetry very interesting and creative. Without personification animals or plants or objects wouldn't be able to talk like humans or act like humans. Also, it makes reading poetry very fun and you are actually motivated to read the poem.

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Dinnertime Chorus

The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!

Imagery

Imagery: words in a poem that uses the five senses connecting you to tactile(touching), auditory(hearing), olfactory(smelling), visual(sight), gustatory(taste), organic(anger), and kinestetic(sensing something).

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Smell

Oh strong-ridged and deeply hollowed
nose of mine! what will you not be smelling?
What tactless asses we are, you and I, boney nose,
always indiscriminate, always unashamed,
and now it is the souring flowers of the bedreggled
poplars: a festering pulp on the wet earth
beneath them. With what deep thirst
we quicken our desires
to that rank odor of a passing springtime!
Can you not be decent? Can you not reserve your ardors
for something less unlovely? What girl will care
for us, do you think, if we continue in these ways?
Must you taste everything? Must you know everything?
Must you have a part in everything?

William Carlos Williams

 

Imagery is important in poetry because you can actually think you are in that situation. Also, without imagery reading poetry would be dull and you wouldn't be able to describe things with creative language. Without imagery poetry wouldn't be known as creative writing because there wouldn't be anything creative about it.

 

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Simile

Simile: a sentence in a poem that compares an object with another object using like or as.

Ex: My bright yellow shoes are as bright as the sun.

Simile's are important beacuse you can describe an object through figurative language in a more creative way. Without simile's your poetry and writing would be completely boring and you wouldn't be able to describe two objects through a creative way.

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Repetition

Repetition: repeating the same line or phrase over and over again in a poem

Ex:I'm nobody! Who are You?
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us-don't tell!
They'd banish us you know.

How dreary to be somebody!
how public, like a frog.
To tell your name livelong day
To an admiring bog!

Repetition in poetry is important because every time the poet repeats the same line again the poet is trying to send a message that the repeating line is the message of the poem. Also, this type of poem can actually help people understand the message better beacsue it keeps on repating the same line.

Ex:Rain

The rain is falling all around
It falls on field and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas here,
And on the ships at sea.
Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1894

Tone

Tone: is the mood or the speakers way of speaking in a poem

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Crazy

I made you crazy
I drove a man crazy
and yet I dont know how I made him crazy
it wasnt fair for him to be crazy
Im sorry for making you crazy
I wish I could take your place and I be crazy
tell me a way show me a way and make me crazy
my heart hurts cause I made my friend crazy
Please change I dont want you to be crazy
Someone help him, help him, he's crazy
take away his pain that made him crazy
I dont like how I made him crazy
I didnt do it on purpose, I didnt even know I was making him crazy
I wish I could take it all back and he leave me crazy

Stay out of my life

 

The tone of poems are important because it is the way the speaker wanted the poem to said. Also, if you took out the tone of a poem it would sound dull and boring. Tones are important because it is the mood of the poem which can help the reader understand the poem through his or her way.

 

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Graduation Day

Graduation Day
sweat and mothballs
grass so green

graduation
where green banners wave
grass grows long

graduation night
the owl printed on a balloon
seems the wisest

Wade Blade

Interpretation

Interpretation: is the way you view a poem through your own perspective

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Interpretation in poems is very important because you can look at poem and understand the poem in a different way than other people's perspective. Also, people that understand the poem through different ways can see the poets message and can interpret the poem in their own way.

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Metaphor

Metaphor: a figure of speech that applies to something or to represent a object in poetry
Extended Metaphor: a metaphor that is usually more than one sentence or a group of lines in a poem

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All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players They have their exits and their entrances

William Shakespeare Metaphors are important in poetry because it gives poetry more meaning and it gives a more descriptive meaning of things. Without metaphors writing in poetry would just be plain and boring and not a lot of people would enjoy reading poetry. Also, without metaphors you couldn't compare one thing with another thing which would make reading poetry boring. Ex: She was fairly certain that life was a fashion show.

The Speaker

The Speaker: a real person that isn't the poet, but uses it for his or her poetry to describe the mood and tone of the poem in a way that readers can understand the poem better.

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Epitaph on a Tyrant
by W. H. Auden
Perfection, of a kind, was what he was after, And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets.

The speaker is extremely important to any poem because without the speaker a poem would just sound like a very boring poem and wouldn't give the reader much interest in reading it. Also, a poem wouldn't have a tone or a mood to it and without a tone or mood to the poem it makes it harder to understand the meaning of the play.

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Man and Wife
by Robert Lowell
Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; the rising sun in war paint dyes us red; in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine, abandoned, almost Dionysian. At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street, blossoms on our magnolia ignite the morning with their murderous five days' white. All night I've held your hand, as if you had a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad— its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye— and dragged me home alive. . . .Oh my Petite, clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve: you were in your twenties, and I, once hand on glass and heart in mouth, outdrank the Rahvs in the heat of Greenwich Village, fainting at your feet— too boiled and shy and poker-faced to make a pass, while the shrill verve of your invective scorched the traditional South. Now twelve years later, you turn your back. Sleepless, you hold your pillow to your hollows like a child; your old-fashioned tirade— loving, rapid, merciless— breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

Symbol

Symbol: a word or phrase in a poem that usaually has a meaning to it

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Symbolism is found in colors:

• Black is used to represent death or evil.
• White stands for life and purity.
• Red can symbolize blood, passion, danger, or immoral character.
• Purple is a royal color.
• Yellow stands for violence or decay.
• Blue represents peacefulness and calm. 

Symbols are important in poems because they have the message that the poet wants the readers to understand and without symbols poems wouldn't have any meaning. Also, poems can have symbols can mean more than mean more than one meaning.
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Objects are often used to symbolize something else:

• A chain can symbolize the coming together of two things.
• A ladder can represent the relationship between heaven and earth or ascension.
• A mirror can denote the sun but when it is broken, it can represent an unhappy union or a separation. 

Couplet

Couplet: a pair of lines in a poem

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Couplets are important to poetry because you can make them ryhme which creates a visual picture in somebody's mind which makes it easier to understand. When couplets are added to poetry it adds a twist that makes the writing more creative and original.

Stanza

Stanza: a group of lines in a poem that are meant to be read as a whole

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Love

Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be.   

                                                        -Sri Chinmoy

Stanzas are important to poetry because when you read a poem, stanzas make understanding the poem how the poet wanted it to be understood. Stanzas make poetry better because you can imagine lots of pictures when reading a poem but it is a lot harder to read poems if the lines in it are not put together.

Poetry

Definition: Way of expressing feelings or thoughts through writing or spoken words in a imagative way.

Example:

Crazy

Im crazy

Im crazy

Im insanely crazy

Im crazy

Im crazy

I also made him crazy

He's crazy

He's crazy

He's insanely crazy

He's crazy
Im crazy
We're two crazies
Together and crazy
Foreverly crazy

Poem written by: Tayler Bailey

Significance: I would use poetry when I am trying to express my feelings in a story to create visuals for my audience. I would also use poetry for writting essays for school because I know that having a well written essay is a good thig to know how to do in your life. Poetry is important in language arts because later in life you need to know a wider way of expressing your thoughts rather than just saying them. You should be able to tell stories with imagination.