Entry#20: Equal to Sentence

Line – a sentence in a stanza

Example:

O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? => line

Deny thy father and refuse thy name

Significant – Help the reader to know the full meaning of a part of the poem, for them to stop and think back, as well as making the poem clearer.

Entry#19: Heart

Symbol - A symbol is a place, a person, a thing, or an event that has meaning in itself and stands for something else. In literature as well as poetry, some symbols are well-known and obvious, and some are subtle and personal.

Example:

Dove is the symbol of peace.

Significant – Symbol conveys more thing than its obvious meaning, helping express the altitude of the poet towards the poem.

Entry#18: Knock-knock

Onomatopoeia – word that is written to describe sound. Ex. Kaboom, quack, arg, etc.

Example:

What about the joke:
Knock-knock Who's there?
Boo
Boo who?
Don't cry, I was only joking

Significant - Onomatopoeia can also be used to describe the use of such words for rhetorical effect.  Making the sounds for the poems entertain the readers and make them to think about the sound.

Entry#17: VOWELS

 

Assonance - the repetition of the sound of a vowel that create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example:

“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far.

 It is among the oldest of living things.

So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”

Significant – Assonance examples are sometimes hard to find, because they work subconsciously sometimes, and are subtle. The long vowel sounds will slow down the energy and make the mood more somber, while high sounds can increase the energy level of the piece. 

Entry#16: Tongue Twister

Alliteration - The repetition of an initial consonant sound.

Example:

"The soul selects her owns society."

                                     (Emily Dickinson)

She sells seashell on the sea shore.

Significant – Alliteration makes the poem more rhythm and interesting.

Entry#15: Are you BIC-FOOT?

Meter - is a recurring pattern of stressed (accented, or long) and unstressed (unaccented, or short) syllables in lines of a set length.

Example:

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright

In the forests of the night,

What immortal hand or eye

Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

Significant – Meter helps the poem sounds good, rhythm, and entertains the readers while reading.

Entry#14: Zzzzz...

Elegy – poem for someone who died

Example:
Poets of centuries,
their words ever so eloquent
whisper their lives
which
Result in catastrophe
but preserves them forever
-in elegy 

                                    _Sakura Motoko_

Significance - shows the sorrowful emotions of the poet for one who has died. With the use of many elements of poetry, elegy is made in the purpose of lament, commemoration, and love.

Entry#13: Starfish

Couplet - a stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

Example:

I found a starfish in the bay

When I was fishing yesterday

Starfish, starfish in the ocean

Moving along in slow motion

Many arms and colored bright

Sea stars are special sight.

Significance – Similar to rhyme, couplet creates joy and enhances the interesting level to the poem.

Entry#12: GIMME MUSIC!

Rhyme - is a repetition of similar sounds in two or more words and is most often used in poetry and songs

Example:

Flesh that parts quiet along the knife blade
Lyrics that resonate, ring alive, fade.

                                    _Katherine Foreman_

Significance – rhyme creates music for them poems, make it more interesting and enjoyable to read.

Entry#11: Shakes it up!

Rhythm – melody of the poem that goes up and down, revealing stress and untress syllables.

 Example:

 A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!

                                                _Shakespeare_

 Significance – helps the reader to feel the poem’s expression and get more attraction, makes the poem more interesting when read.

Entry#10: Figures of speech (chapter 3)

 

Personification – Nonhuman thing is described as if it had the human qualities and characteristic.

Example:

The wind whispered through my ear but I vaguely heard a thing.

Significance – personification brings things to life, make the reader feel the poem is more livable, more honest, more close to them. It enhances the interesting level of the poem as well. 

Entry#9: Narrator

Speaker – the poem’s narrator, where personal expression and feeling are revealed.

Example:

 In the song of life, all lyrics need a melody.

You are the lyric and you are the melody.

You are the lyric of my heart and of my soul.

The beauty of the rose, speaks a lyric of love.

Love, speaks a lyric of you...

Significance – Speaker helps the readers to understand more about the emotional feelings of the poets, therefore it makes the reader gain a stronger and wider perspective about the poem and empathize with the thoughts and feelings which might be painful.

Entry#8: Singing with Tones!

Tone - A poem's tone is the attitude that its style implies.

Example:

 You ask for a poem.

 I offer you a blade of grass.

 You say it is not good enough.

 You ask for a poem.

 I say this blade of grass will do.

 It has dressed itself in frost,

 It is more immediate

 Than any image of my making.

                               _Brian Patten_

=> Brian Patten's 'A Blade of Grass' has a tone of sad acceptance toward the loss of childlike wonder that could have accepted the blade of grass, for example

Significance – Tone helps us to reveal the outlook of a poem and its poet’s emotion at the meantime. A 

tone speaks for the poem and let it evokes a strong emotion for the readers.

Entry#7: How do you interpret?

Interpretation – an analysis of a poem for comprehending and enjoy poetry.

Example:

See a shooting star and wish = the wish will be granted

Significance – Study the poem closely help use to understand the meaning better. 

Entry#6: Figures of Speech (chapter 2)

Simile – a comparison between two things that have in common and linked by the word like, as, look like…

Example:

Grandma’s snore like the bears’ one during their hibernation in the winter.

Significance – Similes are used to described things, as well as making the poem more interesting and entertaining for readers. It kinds of promote the readers’ thoughts when their brains are proceeding, searching the common point whether why the poet choose those things to compare with.

Entry#5: Understand Extended Metaphor

Extended metaphor - A comparison between two unlike things that continues throughout a series of sentences in a stanza.

Example:

Hope is the thing with feathers
that perches in the soul,
And sings the tune-without the words,
And never stops at all,

Significance - An extended metaphor, when written well, can be a powerful literary device, of course the meaning prolongs to life itself.

Entry#4: Figures of speech (chapter 1)

Metaphor– understand one thing in term of another. A metaphor didn't use the linking word but compare directly.

Example:

The moon is a prostitute.

Significance - using metaphor helps the author to state the point in a deeper meaning, and often makes it to a more emotional level. It also enhances your thought in understanding the poem.

Entry#3: Add to Stanza

Stanza – a fixed number of lines of verses forming a unit of poem. It depends on their structure and rhyme patterns. Commonly people understand it is “paragraphs” for poems.

Example:

The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding-- Riding--riding-- The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door. He'd a French cocked hat on his forehead, and a bunch of lace at his chin; He'd a coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of fine doe-skin. They fitted with never a wrinkle; his boots were up to his thigh! And he rode with a jeweled twinkle-- His rapier hilt a-twinkle-- His pistol butts a-twinkle, under the jeweled sky.

Significance – Stanza supports the poems by separate the different ideas, therefore it is easier for us to understand.

Entry#2: More About Imagery

Imagery – the ability to form a mental image of a thing or an event

Example:

Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the feeling of 
swinging through the air was euphoric, almost like flying without wings.

Significance – you are talking about the influences of your five senses, which are sight, smell, touch, taste and listen. Imagery helps you in visualize and have a better understand towards the piece of poem.  Imagine an image also helps in create mood and tone which contribute the meaning.

Entry#1: All about Poetry

Poetry - Poetry has its unique meaning in each person’s perspective, but commonly, poetry is a piece of imaginative writing, a personal nature laid out on lines. Poetry is well-known for its aesthetic qualities, and the level of difficulties to understand a piece of poem.   Instead of read poems by eyes, you need to have oral. Oral happened to be the best way for you to comprehend a piece of poem better.

Example:

There once was a man from Peru

Who dreamed he was eating his shoe

He awoke with a fright

In the middle of the night

To find that his dream had come true!

Significance- Poetry is the best way in showing the writer's feeling and his soul towards his masterpiece. because poetry draws on the senses and the senses give deep access to memories and feelings, poetry writing is relevant, interesting and should always be appreciated.