The document provides information about poetry, including its definition as an art form that uses language for its aesthetic qualities. It discusses various literary devices used in poetry such as rhyme scheme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphor, personification, simile, and paradox. Examples of these devices are given. The document also defines forms such as a sonnet and discusses denotation versus connotation. Finally, it analyzes themes and devices used in several poems.

1. Appreciating
poetry

2. What is Poetry?
• Is an art form in which human language is used for
its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its
notional and semantic content. It consists largely of
oral or literary works in which language is used in a
manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ
from ordinary prose.
• A piece of writing that expresses emotions,
experiences, and ideas, especially in short lines
using words that rhyme, forms, patterns of sounds,
imagery and figurative language to convey a
message.

3. Definitions
• Rhyme scheme: Is the pattern of rhyme that
comes at the end of each verse or line in poetry.
• Alliteration. Is the repetition of beginning sounds.
for example: Sally sells seashells. Walter
wondered where Winnie was.
• Onomatopoeia: Is a word that sounds like what it
is describing. Examples are: click, crash, boom

4. • Metaphor: Comparing two unlike things or ideas.
Examples are: The world is a stage, Time is money
• Personification :Is giving human qualities to non-
living things or ideas. Examples are: Snowflakes
danced, The flowers nodded
• Simile: A comparison using like or as :As blind as a
bat , she was shining like the sun.
• Paradox: Means contrary to expectations.
Example : I must be cruel to be kind.”

5. Definition
• Sonnet : A poem written in 14 lines which can
be broken down into 3 sections called
quatrains contain four lines each , and one
section called couplet, contains two lines only.
The rhyme scheme of a Shakespearean sonnet
is ABAB / CDCD / EFEF / GG .

6. Denotation: It is the literal meaning of a word.
The exact meaning of a word, without the feeling
or suggestions that the word may imply .It is the
opposite of "connotation" in that it is the
"dictionary" meaning of a word, without attached
feelings or associations.
Denotation allows the reader to know the exact
meaning of a word so that he or she will better
understand the work of literature.

7. Connotation : Associations and implications that go
beyond the literal meaning of a word , which derive from
how the word has been commonly used and the
associations people make with it.
Connotations relate not to a word's actual meaning , or
denotation , but rather to the ideas or qualities that are
implied by that word. Connotation is the range of
secondary or associated significances and feelings which it
commonly suggests or implies.

8. Their function
To create fresher ideas and images so that
adds deeper levels of meanings to common
and ordinary words.

9. Poems
The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
Paraphrasing.
Figures of speach.
The tone.
The form.
Rhyme scheme. AAA BBB
Theme.
Natural world :
The eagle lives in a place that cannot be easily reached by human beings, and
the speaker is definitely aware of this. The poem imagines what the eagle's
world is like, and by extension imagines a world without people. Still, the
speaker can only describe the landscape using human or human-like
attributes. "The Eagle" is a classic case of a nature poem that ends up being
just as much about the person describing the scenery as anything else.

10. Winter , by William Shakespeare.
Paraphrasing.
Figures of speach.
The tone.
The form.
Rhyme scheme : ABABCCDEF, ABABCCDEF
Theme:
Man and the Natural World : "Winter" is in many ways a nature poem; there
are owls and birds and descriptions of winter scenes (icicles, snow).
But it's not just about some frozen forest, but about what people do in this
winter wonderland. It's about how humans make their way through the
bleakest time of the year. Although , life's basic necessities (milk, water, blood)
are frozen or chilled, but people manage to overcome nature's lack of
hospitality and soldier on.

11. Shall I Compare Thee by : William Shakespeare.
Paraphrasing.
Figures of speach.
The tone.
The form.
Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG
Theme:
Love and Immortality:
His lover is more beautiful and desirable than "a summer's day" because
even such a wonderful season like summer has its flip side-it's too short
and sometimes too hot. He concludes by saying that he
wishes to immortalize the beauty of his lover in his poetry.
since all human beings will die, the only way to immortalize
a human being is by praising him in excellent verse
which the future generations will always read.
Shakespeare compares his lover to "eternal summer" and he has
immortalized his lover in his sonnet 18

12. Meeting at Night by: Robert Browning.
Paraphrasing.
Figures of speach.
The tone.
The form.
Rhyme scheme: ABCCBA , ABCCBA.
Theme :
•Love and Perseverance :
The speaker argues for the power of love by insisting upon his
ability to conquer all that separates him from his lover.
Time, distance, and even the lovers’ “joys and fears” cannot stand
in his way and are not important once the two are together.
"Meeting at Night" isn't only about secret love affairs. It's about
the lengths we go to satisfy our passions, the obstacles we're
willing to overcome.

13. By considering that Browning had only recent
wed Elizabeth Barrett Browning after
a courtship that they had to keep secret from
her oppressive father. Many scholars
see in it a representation of this courtship.

14. The sick Rose by: William Blake
Paraphrasing.
Figures of speach.
The tone.
The form.
Rhyme scheme: ABCB , DEFE.
Theme:
Love is a major theme of this poem. But this love is a bit different from
usual love we have often read about. This love isn’t the one that binds two
lovers. It is dark and secret and brings destruction. The rose, a symbol of
love and beauty, has become infected and is withering away.