What do you expect to see in poetry?

Imagery
Metaphors
Symbols
Rhythm
Rhymes or Rhyme scheme
Sound devices
Figurative Language
Connotations
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Paradox and irony

Tone and shifts in tone
THEME
Form as it reveals meaning
What do the following poems look like?
(besides gibberish)
Critical Lens skills: What do you see? What is the function? Whats it about?
How do you know?

Kenneth Burkes Logological formula:

What goes with what?
What follows or follows from what?
What opposes what?
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Sonnet, sestinas, villanelles, blank verse, free verse, etc

What is the effect of line length on meaning?
How do stanzas effect end-stopped lines or enjambment? Pacing? Rhythm?
Traditional stanzas: quatrains, couplets
How does structure effect imagery, metaphor, rhyme, sound devices?
Schemes of repetition
Schemes of repetition
Schemes of repetition-specific diction or conceptual idea
What does a single-line stanza say?
Concrete poems
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Spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame baloonman

Whistles far and wee

and eddieandbill come

running from marbles and
piracies and it's
Spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful

the queer
old baloonman whistles
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he was a handsome man
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how do you like your blueeyed boy
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