Types of poetry ♥

♥ Narrative:

Definition: telling stories in poems.

Example:

There was three kings into the east,
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.

♥ Ballads:

Definition: song or song like poem that tells a story. The story often about love, death and betrayal. They usually have regular, steady rhythm, and a simple pattern rhyme.

Example:

Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

♥ Epic:

Definition: long narrative poems, originally tells by someone. Epic tells about a heroes who embody the values of the culture recounting the tale.

Example:

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

♥ Lyric:

Definition: It usually doesn't tell a story but they express their feelings and personal thoughts of the poet or the speakers.

Example:

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

♥ Sonnets:

Definition: a specific types of lyric poem is always 14 lines long and usually has a particular meter.

Example:

Talking to myself there
Someone had overheard.
I was lost for a word.
There was nothing to share.
Embarrassed I was there.
Left awkward and absurd .
A broken wingless bird.
With nowhere to fly there.
Caught red faced there was I.
Didn't want to be seen.
I just wanted to die.
I just wanted to scream.
I'm so terribly shy.
Lost for words it would seem.

♥ Odes:

Definition: It's long, lyric poems were traditionally written to celebrate a famous person or lofty idea.

Example:

Fair flower of fifteen springs, that still

Art scarcely blossomed from the bud, Yet hast such store of evil will,

A heart so full of hardihood,

Seeking to hide in friendly wise

The mischief of your mocking eyes.

If you have pity, child, give o'er,

Give back the heart you stole from me,

Pirate, setting so little store

On this your captive from Love’s sea,

Holding his misery for gain,

And making pleasure of his pain.

Another, not so fair of face,

But far more pitiful than you,

Would take my heart, if of his grace,

My heart would give her of Love’s due;

And she shall have it, since I find

That you are cruel and unkind.

♥ Elegies:

Definition: a poem of mourning, usually for someone has died.

Example:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

♥ Free verse:

Definition: It isn't follow a regular meter or rhyme scheme, but it includes other elements of poetry like: rhythm, imagery, figures of speech, and alliteration.

Example:

My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.
And also I didn't want it to be tomorrow,
Because then it would be time to do what
I've denied for three weeks of subsistence
And oblivion--ignoring is bliss.
And I saw everything I never did
Lying around me, pieces and steps of the
Success I never got, reminders that
Whatever I planned, I never got far.
But in the middle of these broken promises
To myself, I could see for the first time
That I have not been broken.
And I must keep myself, all that is real,
As daybreak does, and nightfall.
I exist to others, but all I need is me.
I will be the last promise, when all is said
And kept.

Significance: There are many types of poetry in order to make the poem sounds better and more interesting for the reader. Every single reader has different choices and they can choose types of poetry that they like. The poet has to make sure that he/she can make many types of poetry to attract the reader instead of just a boring type of poetry.

Lines ♥

Definition: Many words made up a line and many lines made up a poem.

Example:

I am fast and fun.
I can dream, dreams that nobody has dreamt before.
I would go on adventures all over the world.
I want to write out my imagination.
I enjoy seeing peace.

I am fast and fun.
I want to fly and taste the air.
I am not afraid to say what I want.
I feel such smooth things that touch my fingers.
I find such pretty things in nature.

I am fast and fun.
I want to be a soccer star.
I think hard about things.
I wonder where we go when we fade.
I feel so great when I help someone.

Significance: without lines the writer can't make up a poem. It is on of the most important things to make poems appeared. The lines are through the writer's minds and their feelings. They have to have lines in order to make a poem completely.

Symbol ♥

Definition: a thing that represents or stands something else.

Example:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright -
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Significance: It can borrow the poem to represent something like: peace, love, etc. It will make the reader a game to guess what the poem represent and what did the writer make this symbol for. And the reader can imagine what is the symbol of the poem and paint it in their minds.

Onomatopoeia ♥

Definition: the word that is written to describe sound like: kaboom, arg, etc.

Example:

Wee!

Wee!

Goes the dough in the air.

Splat !

Splat !

Goes the sauce on the dough.

Sprinkle.

Sprinkle.

Goes the cheese on the sauce.

Flop!

Flop!

Goes the pepperoni on the cheese.

Sizzle!

Sizzle!

Goes the pizza as it cooks.

Significance: it sounds better if it has onomatopoeia in a poem. The writer will express more of their feelings in the poem in order to make the reader feel the sound and imagine about the poem. It usually makes the reader feel interesting and makes lots of surprises for them.

Poem ♥

On the grasshopper and the cricket

by: John Keats

The poetry of earth is never dead:    

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun,    

And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run 

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead;

That is the Grasshopper's--he takes the lead  

In summer luxury,--he has never done    

With his delights; for when tired out with fun 

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. 

The poetry of earth is ceasing never:    

On a lone winter evening, when the frost       

Has wrought silence, from the stove there shrills 

The Cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever,    

And seems to one in drowsiness half lost,       

The Grasshopper's among some grassy hills.

Ode to thanks 

                  by: Pablo Neruda

Thanks to the word
that says thanks!
Thanks to thanks,
word
that melts
iron and snow!
The world is a threatening place
until
thanks
makes the rounds
from one pair of lips to another,
soft as a bright
feather
and sweet as a petal of sugar,
filling the mouth with its sound
or else a mumbled
whisper.
Life becomes human again:
it’s no longer an open window.
A bit of brightness
strikes into the forest,
and we can sing again beneath the leaves.
Thanks, you’re the medicine we take
to save us from
the bite of scorn.
Your light brightens the altar of harshness.
Or maybe
a tapestry
known
to far distant peoples.
Travelers
fan out
into the wilds,
and in the jungle
of strangers,
merci
rings out
while the hustling train
changes countries,
sweeping away borders,
then spasibo
clinging to pointy
volcanoes, to fire and freezing cold,
or danke, yes! and gracias, and
the world turns into a table:
a single word has wiped it clean,
plates and glasses gleam,
silverware tinkles,
and the tablecloth is as broad as a plain.
Thank you, thanks,
for going out and returning,
for rising up
and settling down.
We know, thanks,
that you don’t fill every space-
you’re only a word-
but
where your little petal
appears
the daggers of pride take cover,
and there’s a penny’s worth of smiles.

Oh captain! My captain!

by: Walt Whitman

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.


O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills; 10
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You've fallen cold and dead.


My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won; 20
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Assonance ♥

Definition: the repetition of the sound of a vowel that create internal rhyming within phrases or sentences.

Example:

And frightful a nightfall folded rueful a day

Nor rescue, only rocket and lightship, shone,

And lives at last were washing away:

To the shrouds they took,—they shook in the hurling and horrible airs.

Is out with it! Oh,

We lash with the best or worst

Word last! How a lush-kept plush-capped sloe

Will, mouthed to flesh-burst,

Gush!—flush the man, the being with it, sour or sweet,

Brim, in a flash, full!—Hither then, last or first

Significance: It makes the poem sound funnier with the repetition vowels. It usually makes the reader laugh and entertains the reader.

Alliteration ♥

Definition: The repetition of the same sounds or of the same kinds of sounds at the beginning of words or in stressed syllables. Alliteration is the most commonly used in poetry.

Example:

Don't delay dawns disarming display .

Dusk demands daylight .
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight .
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance .

Significance: Alliteration helps us to convey imagery. It helps make a line more memorable and gives the effect the poet intended, sad, loud, happy, evil, etc. People will be more interested in it and more understand about the poem.