Poetry

Start getting an idea what poetry is by reading

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry (and following more interesting links from there)

and take notes as to what you believe is more relevant to your understanding of poetry (meter, rhyme, poetic features, different forms, etc).

Glossary of poetic terms:

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072405228/student_view0/poetic_glossary.html

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/learning/glossary-terms?category=forms-and-types

Read:

An article about poetry's role in protest politics:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/dec/15/poetry-protest-politics

And one about war poetry:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2009/apr/02/war-poetry-brian-turner-iraq?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487

Place to listen to poetry online: https://www.poetryoutloud.org/competing/listen-to-poems/

A fun poem about the pronunciation of English (practice reading this!)

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble, but not you

On hiccough, thorough, slough, and through.

Well don't! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps.

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard but sounds like bird.

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead,

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

Watch out for meat and great and threat

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth as in mother

Nor both as in bother, nor broth as in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear, for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and lose--

Just look them up--and goose and choose

And cork and work and card and ward

And font and front and word and sword

And do and go, then thwart and cart,

Come, come! I've hardly made a start.

A dreadful Language? Why man alive!

I learned to talk it when I was five.

And yet to write it, the more I tried,

I hadn't learned it at fifty-five.

(borrowed from a source that has since vanished)

Performance poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_poetry

An example of spoken poetry: Sarah Kay "If I Should Have a Daughter":

https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_kay_if_i_should_have_a_daughter

Some more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u3t7glrN0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWbERIVc7BM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE-c4Bj_RT0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-Y9zgOSUnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_zXjfBPfTk&t=6s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVvagvG8Ys8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rfgNvvXz8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD2_uKaugPI

Google for "spoken word poetry" if you want more, or google an author you liked more than the rest.

Introduction to poetry: http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/001.html (text 1.43 in PhilpotNew, so leave this out at this point, we'll do it as part of PhilpotNew)

More on meter and the like:

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xmeter.html

Rhythm:

http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/rhythm.html

+ dictionary of poetry terms:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0903237.html

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_poetic_terms_s.htm

http://www.hinduwebsite.com/general/poetry.asp

Scansion, rhythm and meter: 

https://www.writingforward.com/poetry-writing/poetry-rhythm-and-meter

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiOXVoDBul4

How to write a limerick:

http://www.creative-writing-now.com/how-to-write-a-limerick.html

http://www.oedilf.com/wiki/index.php/Writing_a_Limerick

Concrete poetry = pattern poetry = shape poetry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry

Google for examples:)

Acrostic: https://www.wikihow.com/Write-an-Acrostic-Poem

Haiku: http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Haiku-Poem

Sonnet: http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm

How to write a poem: http://jerz.setonhill.edu/writing/creative1/poetry-writing-tips-how-to-write-a-poem/

Task: Try your hand at writing some forms of poetry. Comment on other people's creations.

This is for inspiration: https://penandthepad.com/arrange-lines-poem-20713.html

Homework based on this:

Read a lot of poetry, e.g. at Poetry 180 (US Library of Congress poetry collection): http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/p180-list.html

I want you to read as many poems from the site as possible, preferably aloud with a friend, choosing them because of their titles, or their subject matter, and then create blog posts with short reflection on each poem, Each person should reflect on at least 5 poems, including one general idea from the poem that you thought interesting, and one specific line (quotation) that you liked + a short explanation why you liked it.

This is a sample reflection by a Mr Kew, from whom I borrowed this task:

Poem 1 – “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins

One idea that I really like in this poem is how the poet shows us how to enjoy poetry and experience it rather than focusing only on its “secrets.”

One line in this poem that I really like is “They begin beating it with a hose / to find out what it really means” because it is humorous, but also makes us think about the way that poetry analysis should not be like torture.