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Elements of Poetry

1. Elements of Poetry

2. Theme
•General idea or ideas continuously
developed throughout the poem
•Thought or idea that the poet presents
•May be suggested by the title or by
segment of the poem

3. Example
I Carry Your Heart with Me, (I Carry it in)
by E.E Cummings

4. Theme: Love
Icarry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart) I am never without it(anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
Ifear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
Icarry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

5. Sound-Effect Devices
•The poet chooses words for sound as well
as meaning, and uses sound as a means of
reinforcing meaning

6. Alliteration
•Repetition of the initial consonant sounds
of the stressed syllables
•Provides musical rhythms
•Easier to memorize
•Lends structure, flow, and beauty

7. Example
Acquainted with the Night
by Robert Frost

8. I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,

9. Assonance
•Repetition of vowel sounds to create
internal rhyming within phrases or
sentences

10. Example
Daffodils
By William Wadsworth

11. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

12. Example
Ode to a Grecian Urn
By John Keats

13. Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,

14. Consonance
•Combination of consistently copied
consonants.
•When the same consonant sounds appears
repeatedly in a line or sentence, creating a
rhythmic effect
•lost and past, confess dismiss

15. Example
The tragedy of
Macbeth
By William
Shakespeare

16. Shipwracking storms and direful thunders break,
So from that spring whence comfort seemed to come
Discomfort swells. Mark, King of Scotland, mark

17. Onomatopoeia
•Formation or use of words which imitates
or suggests the source of the sound that it
describes

18. Example
Running Water
By Lee Emmet

19. water plops into pond
splish-splash downhill
warbling magpies in tree
trilling, melodic thrill
whoosh, passing breeze
flags flutter and flap
frog croaks, bird whistles
babbling bubbles from tap

20. Rhyme
•A type of echoing which utilizes a
correspondence of sound in the final
accented vowel and all that follows of two
or more words.

21. Example
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again.