Inding your way with poetry adjective

INDING YOUR WAY WITH POETRY

A word which describes a noun.

For example, “The yellow table.”

Alliteration

Several words beginning with the

same consonant. For example,

“The silent sea swells.”

A collection of passages from

literature, usually poems, in

one book.

Language which is not literal but

used for effect.

Imagery

Language which produces pictures

in the mind of a reader

by appealing to the senses.

Keeping strictly to the original

meaning of a word.

Metaphor

A form of comparison which does

not use

‘like’ or ‘as’. For example, a

“In the night

The name of a person, place or thing.

For example, “The yellow table.”

Rhyme

The repetition of words or syllables

which sound the same:

fl at, bat, chat.

The ‘beat’ ‘like’ ‘as’. “Her hand

‘verse’.

The particular organisation of words

and lines a poet has used in a poem.

Syntax

The way the words are organised in

a sentence in relation to each other.

Verb

An action or ‘doing’ word like smile,

wink, chatter.

Verse

How a poem is divided up.

I remember the last red rose

and that it darkened a little

every day, drawing into itself every = determiner

almost black at the end in its almost = adverb

bright green bottle

on the white sill by the kitchen window,

and the winter weather waning

the garden greening, beyond –

I remember it died, months ago.

The last hard clasp of hands

and the standing together

in the blue winter twilight

with infinite gentleness talking

inconsequentially through

someone’s silent weeping – that too

is over; we scattered long ago

to our afternoon hours

to work and to sleep.

But the night is querulous and full

of arrangements; composing

answers to letters, remembering

obligations, I am held as

at a dull meeting; dry-eyed,

tired-minded, I hear no voices

but the night wind

meddling at the silence

In a great sorrow we are helpless:

children, we trust the pitiless stars

to lead us by the hand; this small

darkness is a shut room.

It is not pain we fear, but triviality.

Lauris Edmond

Images in my head.

Infinite = adjective, without any limit or end.

Inconsequential = adjective, unimportant or insignificant.

Inconsequentially = adverb

Verse 1

Verse 2

Verse 3

Verse 4

Symbol	Meaning
●	The green bullet lists words that are derived from the same morpheme, but have variant spelling.
●	The red bullet lists words that are not in fact related to the subject morpheme, although the reader might assume that they are related.
●	The blue bullet lists “Same as” stems, “See also” stems, and other commentary on the subject morpheme.
●	The aqua (cyan) bullet lists foreign words that are derived from the same morpheme.
||	This symbol marks the start of the etymology of the morpheme.
	This symbol in the etymology means “from” and indicates the source of the morpheme. For example “ Gr” means from Greek.
	This symbol in the etymology means “to” and indicates words that arise from the term to the left. For example “L pati patiens” means that Latin patiens is derived from pati.
*	This asterisk symbol in the etymology means hypothetical, or not attested. It means that the root is hypothesized based on linguistic evidence, but that no written record of the stem has been found. All Indo-European roots are so marked, as we have no written evidence of the Proto-Indo-European language.
†	This dagger symbol means the origin is unknown.