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    Poetry techniques: To be used over a series of lessonsMaterials: Audio version of The Raven by Edgar

    Allan Poe

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    Is the main idea or message of the poem

    How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (

    Elizabeth Barret Browning, How Do I Love Thee?) Loveliest of trees, the cherry now/Is hung with

    blooms along the bough(AE Housman,Loveliest of Trees)

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    Remember!Poets dont always express their themes

    in a straightforward way. You will needto read a poem completely before youcan decide what the theme is.

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    This means the feelings and attitude of thepoem which come across through the words

    Check the language used- Is it happy? Sad? Angry? Sarcastic? Nostalgic?

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    What do you think the tone of this poem is?

    Does it Matter? Losing your legs?

    For people will always be kind(Siegfred Sassoon, writing about the FirstWorld War, in Does it Matter?)

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    SimilesA simile is an image made when the poet

    compares something to something else O, my love is like a red, red rose

    An emerald is as green as grass

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    A Metaphor is also a comparison,but without the words like or as.

    They can also used to createimages in our mind:

    You are perfume, you are honey

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    A symbol is a type of image that

    represents or stands for something

    else In The Road not Taken, Robert Frost uses the

    image of two roads in a wood as a symbol of

    choices in life:Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.

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    This is when the poets write of non-humanthings as if they were human.

    The wind stood up and gave a shout(James Stephens, The Wind)

    Grafton Street is yawning, waking limb by limb(Michael O Siadhail, Morning on Grafton Street)

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    Poets make use of sounds of words to

    create images for us too. As you read a

    poem you are studying, look out forthe following effects, or aural images.

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    Is when the words used sound like whatthey describe- Audio: Listen to the poemand read along:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqPQXqQXzI

    Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

    As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber doorOnly this, and nothing more."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqPQXqQXzIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcqPQXqQXzI
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    Teacups rattlingin the kitchen

    (Gareth Owen, Space Shot).

    Jewellers steel shutters clatterupwards

    (Michael O Siadhail, Morning on Grafton

    Street)

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    This means the same repetition of the sameconsonant sound, one after the other or closely

    connected.

    I hearlake waterlapping withlow sounds by theshore (WB Yeats, The Lake of Innisfree).

    Thefair breeze blew, the whitefoam flew

    (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the AncientMariner).

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    Rhyme is when the sounds of words arerepeated, usually at the end of lines

    Rhythm is the beat or pace of words in a

    poem:The fox was strong, he was full of running,He could run for an hour and then be cunning,But the cry behind him made him chill,

    They were nearer now and they meant to kill

    If the theme of a poem is sad, the rhythm tends tobe slower

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    Slattery, M., Revise Wise: English JuniorCertificate-Higher Level, Edco (Dublin:2006)