What poem have you enjoyed the most from the poetry read in class and why? What was your least favorite poem read in class and why? Be sure to use specific lines from the poem (MLA parenthetical citation) to support your postitions. Respond to a peer's post.
The rules for poetry differ from the rules for quoting prose in two key ways:
Quoting 1, 2 or 3 lines of poetry. You can
quote three or fewer lines of poetry without having to place the lines in a
block quote. Use quotation marks. Use a slash to indicate the break between
lines. Put the line numbers in parentheses. Place the period at the end of the
line number(s):.
Heaney directly compares poetry writing to the digging his
ancestors did: "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I'll
dig with it" (29-31).
Quoting 4 or more lines of poetry. If you quote
four or more lines of poetry, you need to block indent the poem ten spaces on
the left margin.
The author, David Bottoms, is wise to the fact that men
often use sports to communicate their feelings. The persona of the poem,
however, takes years to realize his father's message. Once he realizes the
importance of sports to their relationship, he sends a message back to his
father:
and I never learned what you were laying down.
Like a hand
brushed across the bill of a cap,
let this be the sign
I'm getting a grip
on the sacrifice. (20-23)
Do not use ellipses if you start quoting a poem midline.
If you want to start quoting in the middle of a line of poetry, just
add indentions to indicate the text is only a partial line. Do
not use ellipses points (. . .).
McDonald paints a picture of a family in pain, but he uses
images that usually show up in cozier circumstances, such as children reading
the comics:
At dawn we folded the quilts and funnies, crept softly through our chores. (13-16)
If you remove words from the middle of a line, DO use an
ellipses to represent the missing text.
As a boy, the persona visited his grandfather in the fields:
"Once I carried him milk. . . . / He straightened up / To drink it" (Heaney
19-21).
If you remove one or more full line, use a line of
ellipses to indicate the omission.
The persona in Hayden's poem would wake to hear the fire his
father started before dawn:
Sundays too my father got up early
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering,
breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise
and dress. (1, 6-8)
Put line numbers after citing several single words.
If you quote several words or phrases from throughout a poem, list the
line numbers after each word.
Roethke uses a variety of words in "My Papa's Waltz" that indicate
physical violence, words such as "death" (3), "battered" (9), "scraped" (12),
"beat" (13), and "hard" (14).
For one word, put the line number at the end. Just as when
quoting a single word of a prose work, put line numbers at the end of a
sentence if quoting only one word.
When Heaney uses a simile to compare his pen to a "gun," he creates a startling image (2).
I think my favorite poem so far would be “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley.
This poem was too powerful and dark for some. I doubt that there is really a
God sometimes, I can admit it. Henley uses this poem to basically say that he
is the master of his own fate, and regardless of the outcome, he will keep his
head high. I think like this too. Some might look down on me because I don’t
believe in God, but I’m over it. Anyways, this poem brings heavy metal music to
my mind when I read it. Since most poetry is happy and sunshiny, I feel that
this poem stands out. The first line, “Out of the night that covers me, Black
as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my
unconquerable soul” (Henley 1-4). These lines really show that the rest of the
poem is going to be dark and powerful. Even though the poet exaggerates, it
really shows a realness to the world.
ATTENTION: Rianna Lewis, I agree with you because I feel that he is fearful of
the world, but will never man up to his fears. He uses questions to change the
tone of the poem.
The rules for poetry differ from the rules for quoting prose in two key ways:
- Poetry requires writers to cite line numbers not page numbers.
- Poetry requires writers to keep line breaks in tact.
Quoting 1, 2 or 3 lines of poetry. You can
quote three or fewer lines of poetry without having to place the lines in a
block quote. Use quotation marks. Use a slash to indicate the break between
lines. Put the line numbers in parentheses. Place the period at the end of the
line number(s):.
Heaney directly compares poetry writing to the digging his
ancestors did: "Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I'll
dig with it" (29-31).
Quoting 4 or more lines of poetry. If you quote
four or more lines of poetry, you need to block indent the poem ten spaces on
the left margin.
The author, David Bottoms, is wise to the fact that men
often use sports to communicate their feelings. The persona of the poem,
however, takes years to realize his father's message. Once he realizes the
importance of sports to their relationship, he sends a message back to his
father:
and I never learned what you were laying down.
Like a hand
brushed across the bill of a cap,
let this be the sign
I'm getting a grip
on the sacrifice. (20-23)
Do not use ellipses if you start quoting a poem midline.
If you want to start quoting in the middle of a line of poetry, just
add indentions to indicate the text is only a partial line. Do
not use ellipses points (. . .).
McDonald paints a picture of a family in pain, but he uses
images that usually show up in cozier circumstances, such as children reading
the comics:
At dawn we folded the quilts and funnies, crept softly through our chores. (13-16)
If you remove words from the middle of a line, DO use an
ellipses to represent the missing text.
As a boy, the persona visited his grandfather in the fields:
"Once I carried him milk. . . . / He straightened up / To drink it" (Heaney
19-21).
If you remove one or more full line, use a line of
ellipses to indicate the omission.
The persona in Hayden's poem would wake to hear the fire his
father started before dawn:
Sundays too my father got up early
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I'd wake and hear the cold splintering,
breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he'd call,
and slowly I would rise
and dress. (1, 6-8)
Put line numbers after citing several single words.
If you quote several words or phrases from throughout a poem, list the
line numbers after each word.
Roethke uses a variety of words in "My Papa's Waltz" that indicate
physical violence, words such as "death" (3), "battered" (9), "scraped" (12),
"beat" (13), and "hard" (14).
For one word, put the line number at the end. Just as when
quoting a single word of a prose work, put line numbers at the end of a
sentence if quoting only one word.
When Heaney uses a simile to compare his pen to a "gun," he creates a startling image (2).
I think my favorite poem so far would be “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley.
This poem was too powerful and dark for some. I doubt that there is really a
God sometimes, I can admit it. Henley uses this poem to basically say that he
is the master of his own fate, and regardless of the outcome, he will keep his
head high. I think like this too. Some might look down on me because I don’t
believe in God, but I’m over it. Anyways, this poem brings heavy metal music to
my mind when I read it. Since most poetry is happy and sunshiny, I feel that
this poem stands out. The first line, “Out of the night that covers me, Black
as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, For my
unconquerable soul” (Henley 1-4). These lines really show that the rest of the
poem is going to be dark and powerful. Even though the poet exaggerates, it
really shows a realness to the world.
ATTENTION: Rianna Lewis, I agree with you because I feel that he is fearful of
the world, but will never man up to his fears. He uses questions to change the
tone of the poem.
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