Poetry
Mysterious;
no specific particular meaning or thoughts/feelings but more open to reader
interpretation; multiple possible ways of reading; layers of meaning
(literal
and metaphorical)
No
set style
Metaphor
(lots!)
Imagery!!!
Other senses used a lot too… sensory description/evoke senses
Not
in traditional stanzas; paragraphs/prose/long lines; line breaks; visual use
of
page space
Reader
interpretation/understanding is (more) open
Emotion:
word choice (onomonopia; sound words; personification,
Concrete(see,
touch, smell; descriptive etc) vs abstract(not material; freedom,
peace,
love, etc…)
made
up words; invention
rhythm;
sound; words; alliteration; patterns; repetition
rhyme
or no rhyme (often there’s not)
Sonnets
Couplet
(final 2 lines “in conclusion” or turn around, etc)
Structure:
rhyme scheme (Shakespeare); long lines; sound structure (iambic pentameter—syllables
and stress on particular syllables); 14 lines long
No
structure/other structure: more spacing of words/lines; Mullen: doesn’t finish
sentences, runs on from one line to the next, no punctuation
Play
with/change idea of sonnet form; modernize sonnet
“About”:
love, different ways of love, modern interpret of Shakespeare love,
physical
beauty, hardship/challenges, sex, teen pregnancy
-references
to other poets/poems/traditions
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