Poetry

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Poetry

• Forms of Poetry
• Aspects of Poetry

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Forms of Poetry

• Ballad
• Free Verse
• Lyric
• Narrative
• Traditional

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Forms of Poetry - Ballad

• Ballad
• A poem that tells a story similar to a folk tale
  or legend and often has a repeated refrain. The
  Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor
  Coleridge is an example of a ballad.

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Forms of Poetry Free Verse

• Free Verse
• Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed
  lines that have no set meter or rhythm. It is
  free of limitations in structure.

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Forms of Poetry - Lyric

• Lyric
• A poem that may resemble a song in form or style.
  Lyrics express the thoughts and feelings of the
  poet. Lyrics are usually accompanied by a musical
  instrument.

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Forms of Poetry - Narrative

• Narrative
• A poem that tells a story (The Odyssey by Homer).
  Ballads, epics, and lays are different kinds of
  narrative poems.

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Forms of Poetry - Traditional

• Traditional
• A term used to describe all the poetry based on
  a regular metre, whether rhymed or not.

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Aspects of Poetry

• Alliteration
• The repetition of the same or similar sounds at
  the beginning of words
• What would the world be, once bereft
• Of wet and wildness?

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• Hyperbole
• A figure of speech in which deliberate
  exaggeration is used for emphasis. Many everyday
  expressions are examples of hyperbole
• tons of money,
• waiting for ages,
• a flood of tears, etc.
• A hyperbole is the opposite of an understatement.

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• Imagery
• A representation of an object or experience. The
  author generally uses imagery to allow you to
  experience the image. Images are either literal
  words used simply create the picture - or
  figurative. Figurative imagery does not follow
  the literal meaning of the words exactly. The
  most common type of figurative images are
  metaphors, similes, and symbols.

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• Metaphor
• A metaphor is a figure of speech in which two
  things are compared to create imagery. Some
  examples of metaphors
• the world's a stage,
• he was a lion in battle,
• drowning in debt, and
• a sea of troubles.

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• Metre
• The arrangement of a line of poetry by the number
  of syllables and the rhythm of accented (or
  stressed) syllables. In short, the rhythm of the
  words in the poem.
• Some types of Metre
• 1.      monometer (1 foot)
• 2.      dimeter (2 feet)
• 3.      trimeter (3 feet)
• 4.      tetrameter (4 feet)
• 5.      pentameter (5 feet)

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• Onomatopoeia
• A figure of speech in which words are used to
  imitate sounds. Examples of onomatopoeic words
  are buzz, hiss, zing, clippety-clop,
  cock-a-doodle-do, pop, splat, thump, and
  tick-tock.

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• Personification A figure of speech in which
  nonhuman things or abstract ideas are given human
  attributes
• the sky is crying,
• dead leaves danced in the wind,
• blind justice.
• Refrain
• A line or group of lines that is repeated
  throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
  Similar to a chorus in a song.

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• Rhyme
• The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at
  the end of two or more words.
• cat/hat,
• desire/fire,
• observe/deserve,
• pleasure/leisure,
• longing/yearning.

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• Simile
• A figure of speech in which two things are
  compared using the word "like" or "as." An
  example of a simile using like occurs in Langston
  Hughess poem Harlem
• "What happens to a dream deferred?
• Does it dry up
• like a raisin in the sun?"

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• Stanza
• Two or more lines of poetry that together form
  one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a
  poem are usually of the same length and follow
  the same pattern of meter and rhyme. They can be
  compared to paragraphs in poetic form.

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• Symbol
• Something that suggests or stands for something
  else without losing its original meaning.
  Examples of symbols are sunshine suggesting
  happiness, rain suggesting sorrow, and storm
  clouds suggesting despair.

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• Understatement
• Deliberately underplaying or undervaluing a thing
  to create emphasis. An understatement is the
  opposite of hyperbole.
• My students have shown no poor ability to learn
  poetry!

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• Verse
• A single line of poetry.