Theme: NATURE
We choose our theme to be nature because nature is all around us. We make contact with nature in someway every single day. This topic is important because it has been around us all since the beginning of time. Now, since man-kind has evolved and so has our technology our world of beautiful nature has started to collapse. Many poems say how nature is amazing and beautiful with its wonderful waterfalls to its vast majority of animals. Now many poets talk about how nature is being destroyed and our planet can come to an end. This inspires people to recycle and warn others of us destroying this planet and destroying the future.
Poetry Terms
Alliteration- The commencement of two or more stressed syllables of a word group either with them same consonant sound or sound group.
Analogy- Similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based.
Assonance- Resemblance of sounds.
Consonance- Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad- A simple narrative poem of folk origin composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
Blank Verse- Unrhymed verse.
Figurative Language- Uses "figures of speech" - a way of saying something other than the literal and meaning of the words.
Free Verse- Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Analogy- Similarity between like features of two things on which a comparison may be based.
Assonance- Resemblance of sounds.
Consonance- Correspondence of sounds; harmony of sounds.
Ballad- A simple narrative poem of folk origin composed in short stanzas and adapted for singing.
Blank Verse- Unrhymed verse.
Figurative Language- Uses "figures of speech" - a way of saying something other than the literal and meaning of the words.
Free Verse- Verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
Haiku- Verse written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5,7, and 5 syllables.
Imagery- The formation of mental images, figures or likenesses of things.
Lyric Poem- A short poem of song like quality.
Ode- A poem that tells a story and has a plot.
Rhyme- Identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm- Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent.
ShakespeareanSonnet- A sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
PetrarchanSonnet- A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as coledde or cdcdcd.
Imagery- The formation of mental images, figures or likenesses of things.
Lyric Poem- A short poem of song like quality.
Ode- A poem that tells a story and has a plot.
Rhyme- Identity in sound of some part, especially the end of words or lines of verse.
Rhythm- Movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat or accent.
ShakespeareanSonnet- A sonnet form used by Shakespeare and having the rhyme scheme: abab, cdcd, efef, gg.
PetrarchanSonnet- A sonnet consisting of an octave with the rhyme scheme abbaabba and of a sestet with one of several rhyme schemes, as coledde or cdcdcd.
