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Poetry Terms to Love and
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afflatusa Latin term for poeticinspiration.
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alliterationthe repetition of initial
consonant sounds in neighboringwords.
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In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
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assonancethe repetition of
identical or similar vowel sounds in
the stressed syllables of neighboringwords without the repetition of
consonants.
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THE RED WHEELBARROW
so much dependsupon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
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LIFE IS MOTION
In Oklahoma,Bonnie and Josie,
Dressed in calico,
Danced around a stump.
They cried,
Ohoyaho,Ohoo . . .
Celebrating the marriage
Of flesh and air.
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blank verseunrhymed lines ofiambic pentameter.
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We live in an old chaos of the sun,
Or old dependency of day and night,Or island solitude, unsponsored, free,
Of that wide water, inescapable.
Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning
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caesuraa pause, metrical or
rhetorical, in a line of poetry; the pausemay or may not be indicated
typographically.
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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;
Am an attendant lord, one that will do
To swell a progress, start a scene or two,
Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,
Deferential, glad to be of use,
Politic, cautious, and meticulous;
Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;
At times, indeed, almost ridiculous
Almost, at times, the Fool.
I grow old . . . I grow old . . .
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufock
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cantoa division of a long poem; a
subdivision of an epic or other narrativepoem, equivalent to a chapter in a prose
work.
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consonancethe repetition of identical
or similar consonants in neighboring
words whose vowel sounds are different
(coming home, hotfoot).
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the path sick sorrow took
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coupleta pair of rhyming verse lines,
usually of the same length.
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O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag
Its so elegantSo intelligent
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
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For I have known them all already, known them all
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
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Im still Jenny from the block
Used to have a little, now I have a lot
J-Lo, Jenny From the Block
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end-stoppedbrought to a pause at
which the end of a verse line coincides
with the completion of a sentence or
clause; the opposite ofenjambment.
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I celebrate myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good
belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear
of summer grass.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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enjambmentthe running over of the
sense and grammatical structure fromone verse line to the next without a
punctuated pause.
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I. THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
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But now the stark dignity of
entranceStill, the profound changehas come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken
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foota unit of meter which denotes the
combination of stressed and unstressedsyllables; an iambis a type of foot.
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free versea type of poetry that does
not conform to any regular meter orrhyme scheme.
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iamba metrical unit (foot) of verse,
having one unstressed syllable followed
by one stressed syllable.
(complacencies)
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imagerya critical term used to
describe the words or phrases which
bring forth a certain picture or image in
the mind of the reader.
BETWEEN WALLS
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BETWEEN WALLS
the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow lie
cinders
in which shinethe broken
pieces of a green
bottle
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lyricany fairly short poem expressing
the personal mood, feeling, ormeditation of a single speaker.
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meterthe repetition of stressed and
unstressed syllables in a line of poetry.
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pentameterfive feet.
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rhythmthe ordered or free
occurrences of sound in poetry; regularrhythm which recurs is called meter.
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stanzaone of the divisions of a poem,
composed of two or more lines usually
characterized by a common pattern of
meter, rhyme, and number of lines.
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versea metric line of poetry; it is
named according to the kind and
number of feet composing it (iambicpentameter, iambic hexameter, trochaic
tetrameter).
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Definitions Swiped From:
Baldick, Chris. The Concise Oxford Dictionary ofLiterary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1996.