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    The document provides information about different types of poetry including riddles, limericks, haikus, and shape poems. It defines each genre and provides examples. Riddles use veiled language and puzzles to pose a question. Limericks have a rhyme scheme of AABBA. Haikus have 3 lines following a 5-7-5 pattern. Shape poems take the physical shape of their subject. The document emphasizes that understanding poetry requires examining both the literal and figurative meaning of the words and their physical form.

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    FUN POETRY

    ▪ RIDDLE
    ◦A riddle is a question, a puzzle, a phrase, or a statement
    devised to get unexpected or clever answers.
    ◦It is a folklore genre as well as rhetorical device, often having
    veiled or double meanings. When someone uses it as a
    puzzle or a question, it could be a thought-provoking
    challenge for the audience to figure it out themselves, or it
    could be a funny comment intended to make the audience
    laugh.
    EXAMPLES:
    ◦I have a head, I have a tail, but I do not have a body. I am neither a
    lizard nor a snake. Then, guess what am I?
    Answer: I am a coin.

    ◦It can run and does not walk, has a mouth and does not talk, has a
    head and does not weep, has a bed and does not sleep?
    Answer: It is a river.

    ◦Something that falls and never breaks and something breaks but never
    falls?
    Answer: Day breaks and night falls.
    ▪ LIMERICKS
    ◦A limerick is a poem that consists of five lines in a single
    stanza with a rhyme scheme of AABBA. Most limericks are
    intended to be humorous, and many are considered bawdy,
    suggestive, or downright indecent

    ◦Most limericks are considered “amateur” poetry due to their


    short length and relatively simplistic structure. However, this
    does not take away from reader enjoyment of this literary
    device.
    EXAMPLE:
    There was a young belle of old Natchez
    Whose garments were always in patchez.
    When comments arose
    There was a small boy of Quebec,
    On the state of her clothes,
    Who was buried in snow to his neck;
    She replied, “When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez.” (Ogden Nash) When they said. “Are you friz?”
    He replied, “Yes, I is—
    There was a young lady of station, But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”
    (Rudyard Kipling)
    “I love man” was her sole exclamation;
    But when men cried, “You flatter”
    She replied, “Oh! no matter!
    Isle of man is the true explanation.” (Lewis Carroll)
    ▪ HAIKUS
    ◦A haiku poem has three lines, where the first and last lines
    have five moras, and the middle line has seven. The pattern
    in this Japanese genre is 5-7-5

    ◦ Haiku became popular as tanka poems in Japan during the


    9th and 12th centuries. Initially, it was called “hokku” and
    Basho, Buson, and Issa were the first three masters of the
    haiku genre. Haiku poetry is also full of metaphors and
    personifications.
    EXAMPLES:
    ❖ Old Pond (By Basho)  ❖ Thirds (By Jeffrey Winke) 
    Old pond  Song birds 
    a frog jumps  at the train yards edge 
    the sound of water two cars coupling
    SHAPE POEMS
    SHAPE POEMS
    A shape poem is a poem that is shaped like the
    thing it describes. The shape adds to the
    meaning of the poem.
    SHAPE POEMS
    Shape poetry, or concrete poetry, develops the
    physical form of the words on paper. So, a poem
    about the stars would take the shape of a star
    (or stars)
    SHAPE POEMS
    While the words, writing style, and literary devices
    impact the meaning of the poem, the physical
    shape of the poem is also of significance.
    Combining content and form creates a powerful
    effect in the field of poetry. 
    COMPREHENDING
    POETRY
    COMPREHENDING POETRY
    Poetry is highly compressed language, but still uses
    punctuation and complete sentences, as well as sound and
    rhythm. Poets work to strip out all the extemporaneous words
    writers usually include as glue between the essential words
    and that give us context about meaning.
    COMPREHENDING POETRY
    It’s best to approach a poem systematically in
     

    an academic reading. Treat the poem as if it is a


    puzzle to be sussed out, or travel luggage
    waiting to be unpacked.
    COMPREHENDING POETRY
    While one may read poetry outside of school simply for
    pleasure, in academia, we are attempting to construct
    a dependable interpretation, which means we are
    attempting to agree as a community on the most
    complete meaning of the poem being read and
    discussed.
    COMPREHENDING POETRY
    The most successful poems actually blend
    somehow both literal and figurative meaning in a
    way that is difficult to explain but resonates with
    us nonetheless—it’s actually the tension
    between the two that builds meaning.
    THANK YOU!☺

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