Poetry

Structure: stanzas and lines

Rhyme scheme-- end rhyme

Internal rhyme

Repetition --- Important connections, pattern

Rhythm--- syllables

Emotion/ 5 senses/ picture/ feeling/ snapshot

Literary devices: Simile, metaphor, personification, onomatopoeia, assonance, consonance, alliteration. 

Emily Dickinson: use a lot of personification, lives in the 19th century, Agoraphobia, no titles for her poems, strange random capitalization, strange punctuation (dash-), themes: Nature, Spirituality, Death, Alone, Identity; 

Naomi Shihab Nye- Palestinian American
- Contemparary American woman poet
- no rhyme scheme/ meter/ structure (free verse), repetation
- Narative: tells a story (father and herself are story teller, passing on the tradition)
- autobiographical- own life
- family/ people-- connection
- world not always a positive place
- nature-- peace
- historical time period-- 9/11; Israeli vs. Palestine conflict
- father is palestinian, mother is American
- grandmather still lived in Palestine