Together in a paragraph is called a stanza. The place where each lineĮnds is called a line break and a group of lines I'll end by reading theįirst three stanzas, which are these paragraph looking things. And to do it, I wanna useīilly Collins poem "Litany" which sounds like a fancy poem at first, but then becomes much more conversational. They can, but theyĭefinitely don't have to. Like remember, and December, I want to be super clear about this part because I was already out of high school before I learned this thing, but poems don't have to rhyme. Of a word like lap and nap, or when a bunch of sounds match each other throughout a pair of words When the ending sound of a word matches the other ending sound What is rhyming really? One way to think about it is You'll also notice that someīut not all of the lines rhyme with each other. They're curled up and feelingĬozy, like a cat by a fire in the middle of December. To scoot these three phrases over as well as this word inside. Now, in addition, the poet is also using spaces Prose uses normal sentencesĪnd paragraphs, right? The poet is choosing to create line breaks in order to change the way the sentence or the line looks on the page. Start a new line here, if this were prose, which is what we call all These line breaks to indicate pauses and rhythms, right? Like normally we wouldn't Lines can be as long orĪs short as a poet likes, but here the poet is creating You can see these lines have anywhere from one Now you'll notice thereĪre only three sentences in this poem, but they're ![]() And then this poem, I'm pretty sure the speaker is a cat. Part of the pleasure of poetryįor me is hearing the words bounce around as you say them. Hear in a poem is called the speaker, which is another The poem is an author, but for poems, the writer is a poet, but who is telling the poem? Who's speaking? The person whose voice we So the person who wrote this poem, Marilyn singer, is the poet for stories. No cat I rememberĭislikes December inside. I want heat on my feet, on my nose, on my hide. I prefer warm fur, a perfect fire to lie beside a cozy lap, where I can nap, an empty chair when she's not there. Let's begin with the poem "Cat" by Marilyn Singer. So I'm gonna look at aĬouple of poems today in order to describe some parts of a poem. There's a little lightīulbs representing ideas. I think of some poems as condensed ideas that contain a lot of ideas Poems can be about everything or they can be about nothing at all. Or rhythm of language, or they can be goofy, little jokes. Poems can express huge ideas or feelings. If ordinary writing is like talking, then poetry is like singing.
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