Tone

Definition:
Tone-the type of noise or sound that gives evidence of what emotions are being read on the poem.


Example:

Anger is fire
It burns the soul
Anger is deep sea
Drowns one to death

-Dr.Rajendra Tela,Nirantar

The tone of this poem gives a hint that gives you that mean, evil feeling.

Significance:

The tone of the poem makes the words more than just words. They add emotions to the poem to make it seem more realistic.

Interpretation

Definition:
Interpretation-An explanation of a creative work such as a poem.


Example:

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me
as good belongs to you.

- Walt Whitman

This poem is about enjoying life and its benefits.

Significance:

Interpreting poems are important because poems have more meaning if you find the main idea of the poem by interpreting it.

Metaphors and Extended Metaphors

Definition:
Metaphor: A figure of speech that does not use "like" of "as" to compare 2 unrelated actions or nouns to emphasize something.


Extended Metaphor- A metaphor that continues into more than one sentence.


Example:
A piece of paper is a cube.
It is boring and blank.
It's always white and always square.
A piece of paper is always there


-Bill Brooks, Dylan Roelke, Scott Robertson, and Mike Schmidt


Significance:
The significance of metaphors and extended metaphors are to emphasize the meaning of something and/or to relate something to another thing unrelated. For example, the example above is an example of an extended meaphor.

Speaker

Definition:
Speaker- The point of view of the poem. The one who is saying the poem.The point of view of the poem could be all knowing or even be the person in the poem. 


Example:

She is the quiet one
with the brown hair, blue eyes.
A dreamer
caught somewhere between
a woman and a child,
living a life united  
by stirrups and manes.
Wanting to do
everything, with never enough
time for it all,
she rails against the
frustration of being only human.
-Nikki


Significance:
The significance of the speaker of a poem is to show who's point of view the poem is talking about. For example, the point of view to the poem above is 3rd person or all knowing. They know everything. 

Symbols

Definition:

Symbol-A symbol is somthing that represents something else in an indirect way. They could represent anything.

Example:

The winter apples have been picked, the garden turned.
Rain and wind have picked the maple leaves and gone.
The last of them now bank the house or have been burned.
None are left upon the trees or on the lawn.
-Robert Francis

Significance:

The importance of symbols are to help explain things in poems easier. For example, the poem above could symbolize the life of a person.

Couplet

Definition:

Couplet- two lines of a verse that rhymes.


Example:

I found a starfish in the bay

When i was fishing everyday

Starfish, Starfish in the ocean

Moving along in slow motion

Many arms and color bright

Sea stars are a special sight

- Anonymous

Significance:

The significance of a couplet is to explain an idea. Couplets are important in a poem is to emphasize the the meaning and make the poem easier to understand.

Stanza

Definition:
Stanza- A stanza is a group of words in a poem that is arranged in a "paragraph" form that is related to one idea of the poem. Stanzas are also created to separate one or more ideas in a poem.

Example:

“Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
- Francis Scott Key




Significance:Stanzas are important in poems to separate blocks of writing in poems to emphasize the importance of an idea in a stanza. They also help separate different meanings in the poem.