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poetic form: free verse Most modern poems are written in free verse, a poetic form with no regular pattern of rhyme or rhythm. A free verse poem can be structured as one long, unbroken stanza, as in “The Fish,” or with many stanzas of varying length, as in “Christmas Sparrow.” The lines in free verse poems may also vary in length. Without a strict meter, the rhythm of free verse poetry often seems more like everyday speech. As you read, notice how the line length, sounds of words, and punctuation create a rhythm in each poem. literary analysis: imagery Sometimes a poem can seem like a portrait of a moment, a person, an animal, or an object. Imagery, or words and phrases that appeal to the reader’s senses, can help create these types of portraits and often reinforce certain ideas about the subject described. For example, in “The Fish,” Bishop appeals to the senses of sight and touch when she describes the fish’s skin. Lines like these help depict a beautifully fragile old fish. hung in strips / like ancient wallpaper shapes like full-blown roses / stained and lost through age As you read the poems, record strong, evocative imagery on a chart like the one shown. Identify • the sense the word or phrase appeals to • the associations the imagery conjures up • the idea that is being reinforced Poem Title: Imagery Sense(s) Associations Idea Reinforced reading strategy: visualize As you read the following poems, notice how the imagery, descriptions, and specific words help you visualize the animals, settings, and events in the poems. Use your imagination to “see” what they might look like. For example, what image of a fish comes to mind when you read the following description? He hung a grunting weight, / battered and venerable / and homely. . . . Elizabeth Bishop: Soulful Poet The poetry of Elizabeth Bishop is marked by its exact and tranquil descriptions of the physical world. Hidden beneath her poems’ air of serenity and simplicity, however, are underlying themes of great depth. When writing about loss and pain, the struggle to belong, and other themes, Bishop worked hard to ensure that “the spiritual [was] felt.” Billy Collins: Poet for the People Billy Collins remembers publishing a poem in his high school newspaper that was later confiscated. Rising to national and popular prominence years later, Collins became U.S. Poet Laureate (2001–2003) and launched the Elizabeth Bishop 1911–1979 Billy Collins born 1941 “Poetry 180” program, which aimed to get more high school students to read wellwritten, understandable poetry each day during the 180-day school year. Theodore Roethke: Passion for Nature “When I get alone under an open sky,” wrote Theodore Roethke, “where man isn’t too evident— then I’m tremendously exalted. . . .” A passion for nature pervades Roethke’s poetry. His Theodore Roethke 1908–1963 poems also explore love, mortality, and the quest for spiritual wholeness. more about the author For more on these poets, visit the Literature Center at ClassZone.com. 713
The Fish Elizabeth Bishop 714 unit 7: the language of poetry I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. 5 He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and venerable and homely. Here and there a 10 his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, and its pattern of darker brown was like wallpaper: shapes like full-blown roses 15 stained and lost through age. He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime, and infested with tiny white sea-lice, 20 and underneath two or three rags of green weed hung down. While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen —the frightening gills, 25 fresh and crisp with blood, that can cut so badly— I thought of the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, 30 the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, a FREE VERSE Notice how the lines of this poem are unequal in length. How do the short lines affect the rhythm in the poem?
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