Creative Writing

1. Introduction to
Poetry
TO BE REPORTED BY:
NIEL RICHARD LOPEZ
RONALYN BUEZA

2. Definition
• A collection of words that express an
emotion or idea.
• Poems are literary attempts to share
personal experiences and feelings.
• Good poems show images which leave the
reader the sense of delight, awe and
wonder.

3. Which half do you use when
studying poetry?
• Poetry requires creativity
• Poetry requires emotion
• Poetry requires an artistic quality
• Poetry requires logic.

4. Purpose of Poetry
• To express ideas, feelings and emotions.

5. Types of Poetry
Free Verse:
Poetry that doesn‟t
follow any specific
patterns in rhythm,
rhyme scheme, or line
length; free verse may
contain rhymes, but
they are not used in a
prescribed manner

6. Types of Poetry
A three-line Japanese
poetic form in the lines
follow the pattern of
five syllables in the
first line, seven
syllables in the second
line, and five syllables
in the third line.
Haiku
Kochira muke
Ware mo sabishiki
Aki no kure
Will you turn
toward me?
I am lonely too,
This autumn
evening.

7. Types of Poetry

8. Types of Poetry
Narrative Poem:
A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story;
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem

9. A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story;
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem
THE SONG OF WANDERING AENGUS
by: W.B. Yeats
WENT out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.

10. A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story;
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And some one called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,

11. Types of Poetry
Sonnet:
A very structured fourteen-line poem that
follows a specific rhyme structure and rhythm.
The two most common sonnets are the Italian
sonnet and the English sonnet. William
Shakespeare wrote many English sonnets, which
are also referred to as hakespearean sonnets.

12. A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story;
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

13. Quote of Day

14. Elements of Poetry

15. Meter
• The length of a line of poetry is measured
in metrical units called “FEET”. Each foot
consists of one unit of rhythm. So, if the
line is iambic or trochaic, a foot of poetry
has 2 syllables. If the line is anapestic or
dactylic, a foot of poetry has 3 syllables.

16. (This is where it‟s going to start sounding like geometry class, so
you left-brainers are gonna love this!)
Each set of syllables is one foot, and each line
is measured by how many feet are in it. The
length of the line of poetry is then labeled
according to how many feet are in it.
*there is rarely more than 8 feet*
1: Monometer
2: Dimeter
3: Trimeter
4: Tetrameter
5: Pentameter
6: Hexameter
7: Heptameter
8: Octameter

17. II.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.
She Walks in Beauty
I.
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
III.
And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Reading this poem out
loud makes the rhythm
evident. Which syllables
are more pronounced?
Which are naturally
softer?
Count the syllables in
each line to determine
the meter.
Examination of this poem reveals
that it would be considered iambic
tetrameter.

18. Stanzas
• It is one 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.

19. Rhyme
One of the most beautiful elements found in
poetry is rhyme.
Rhyme is the matching of sounds that are
similar.
Say, Pay, Tray, Spray, Day, May
Blue, True, zoo, do, too

20. Rhyme
When working with rhyme, you should
always remember that the most important
part of verse is the last word.
• The last word of each verse is what
establishes they rhyme.
Twinkle, twinkle little star!
How I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high.
Like a diamond in the sky.
A
A
B
B
Rhyme
Scheme

21. Practice
Nature‟s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf‟s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down today.
Nothing gold can stay.
A
A
B
B
C
C
D
D
Was it Easy?

22. Practice
When I was one and twenty
I heard a wise man say.
„Give crowns and pounds and guineas
But not your heart away;
Give pearls away and rubies
But keep your fancy free‟
But I was one-and-twenty
No use to talk to me!
A
B
C
B
C
D
A
D
How many
stanzas and
verses does
the poem
have?

23. Rhythm
• It is a movement with uniform recurrence
of a beat or accent." In its crudest form
rhythm has a beat with little or no
meaning.

24. Alliteration
• The repetition of the initial letter or sound
in two or more words in a line.
To the lay-person, these are called
“tongue-twisters”.
• Example: How much dew would a
dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop
dew?

25. She Walks in Beauty
I.
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which Heaven to gaudy day denies.
Let’s see
what this
looks like
in a poem
we are
familiar
with.
Alliteration
AlliterationAlliteration
These examples use the beginning
sounds of words only twice in a
line, but by definition, that’s all
you need.

26. Repetition
• Using the same key word or phrase
throughout a poem.
This should be fairly
self-explanatory,
but . . .
at risk of sounding like
a broken record . . .

27. Time to spend;
time to mend.
Time to hate;
time to wait.
Time is the essence;
time is the key.
Time will tell us
what we will be.
Time is the enemy;
time is the proof.
Time will eventually
show us the truth.
Time is a mystery;
time is a measure.
Time for us is
valued treasure.
Time to spend;
time to mend.
Time to cry . . .
Time to die.
Valued Treasue
by Chris R. Carey

28. So, which is the repeated key word
or phrase?

29. Time to spend;
time to mend.
Time to hate;
time to wait.
Time is the essence;
time is the key.
Time will tell us
what we will be.
Time is the enemy;
time is the proof.
Time will eventually
show us the truth.
Time is a mystery;
time is a measure.
Time for us is
valued treasure.
Time to spend;
time to mend.
Time to cry . . .
Time to die.
Valued Treasue
by Chris R. Carey

30. So, which is the repeated
key word or phrase?
Fairly obvious, huh?

31. Refrain
• The repetition of one or more phrases or
lines at the end of a stanza.
• It can also be an entire stanza that is
repeated periodically throughout a poem,
kind of like a chorus of a song.

32. Phenomenal Woman
by Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I‟m not cute or built to suit a fashion model‟s
size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I‟m telling lies.
I say,
It‟s in the reach of my arms,
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I‟m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That‟s me.
Remember this

33. I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It‟s the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing of my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I‟m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That‟s me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can‟t touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them,
They say they still can‟t see.
I say,
It‟s in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
. . .
The grace of my style.
I‟m a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That‟s me.
Look familiar? That is refrain.

34. Figurative Language
Simile:
Example:
A direct, explicit comparison of one
thing to another in which the
words like or as are used.
She looks like an angel.
Her lips are as sweet as honey.

35. Figurative Language

36. Figurative Language
Metaphor:
Example:
An indirect comparison of one
thing to another in which one
thing is given characteristics of
another.
My love is a flower
He was a lion in battle.

37. Figurative Language
Personification:
Example:
The strategy of giving
animate qualities to abstract
concepts, or inanimate
things.
This handless clock stares blindly from its
tower.

38. Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia:
Example:
The attempt to echo or
imitate sounds with words.
Bow-wow, oink-oink, tic-tac, howling

39. Figurative Language
Hyperbole:
Example:
An exaggeration
I have been waiting for a million years.

40. Imagery
A poet must stimulate the imagination. He
or she has to use a language that creates
mental pictures or images.
Sensory Images:
• Visual- to the sense of sight.
• Olfactory- to the sense of smell.
• Gustatory- to the sense of taste
• Tactile- to the sense of touch
• Auditory- to the sense of hearing

41. Quote of the Day