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.

Meter ♥

Definition: In poetry, meter is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse or lines in verse. It's a pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example:

"Trochee trips from long to short;

From long to long in solemn sort

Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yea ill able

Ever to come up with Dactyl trisyllable.

Iambics march from short to long;

With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng;

One syllable long, with one short at each side,

Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride;

First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer

Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud highbred Racer...

Significance: It makes the poem more interesting to read because we can have feelings when we read that poem. It will give the message to the reader when they feel excited and satisfy. In a poem must have meter in order to make the reader not fall asleep.

Elegy ♥

Definition: A mournful poem, composed in elegiac couplets, serious reflection or typically a lament for the dead.

Example:

On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.

Chidioch Tichborne to something beautiful to gave life
In his farewell elegy to Agnes his wife
An elegy still read and popular today
True greatness can be slow for to meet decay.

Accused as being in a failed plot to murder Elizabeth England's Queen
His best days as a poet he had not seen
Hung drawn and quartered a brutal way to die
Such a death to justice surely gives the lie.

Executed in his twenty eight year even in those times that was young
But he did not remain as one unsung
His gift of life may have been snatched from him in his prime
But his life story and his elegy have withstood the test of time.

Chidioch Tichborne (1558-1586)

Significance: The importance of elegy is the poets can express their feelings when they have something really bad happen to them. Elegy makes them feel better when the poets bring all of their heart in that poem. The reader maybe upset about something, they can borrow the poem to make them feel better after read that poem. Elegy has a lot of feelings it in because they are from the bottom of the writer's heart.

Couplet ♥

Definition: two verses have an equal length, flow well together and joined by rhyme, forming a unit.

Example:

Where-e'er you find "the cooling western breeze,"

In the next line, it "whispers through the trees;"

If crystal streams "with pleasing murmurs creep,"

The reader's threatened (not in vain) with "sleep."

Significance: Couplet is one of the most ordinary kind of rhymes. It makes the reader understand more about the poem, and they will get the message sooner. The poem will be more enjoyable and will attract more people to read it.

Rhyme ♥

Definition: A poem or verse having a regular appropiate of sounds, especially at the ends of lines. To use (a word) or (of a word) to be used so as to form a rhyme; be or make identical in sound.)

Example:

Mary Mary quite contrary,

How does your garden grow?
With silver bells and cockle shells

And pretty maids all in a row.

Significance: It makes the poem more interesting to read. When the poem rhymes, they create the rhythm in order to catch the readers ear

more. If a poem doesn't have any rhyme, we can't call it poem.

Rhythm ♥

Definition: Rhythm is a continuous and recurring beat in a poem. It can make people talk in rhythm and they can feel the beat of that poem. Rhythm can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less stressed syllables.

Example:

The wind in her hair

The chair that sat there

Eyes on eyes

Fire and lye

in the river sky

Significance: It makes the poem not too boring and get more reader. People may dance when they got the rhythm of the poem, people may feel more interesting and the poem will be more vivid. The poet have to make sure that every poem must have a rhythm in order to attract more people. With a rhythm inside a poem, the message that the poet want to send to the reader is faster.

Personification ♥

Definition: a figure of speech in a poem that bring objects to life,

and descirbe it as a human like it have humans feelings and thoughts

Example:

"Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"said the sunflowers, shining with dew."Our traveling habits have tired us.Can you give us a room with a view?"

They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run.

(William Blake)

Significance: The importance of personification is it makes the poem more live-like and more interesting to read. We can borrow an object to express our feelings instead of just having a person talking about their feelings because if we use personification it will be more original.

Speaker ♥

Definition: The person who presents the poem or the 1st person in a poem "I"

Example: The speaker for this poem in 8th grade was Shane Tran.

Significance: The importance of speaker is it tells who the feelings are from and who is speaking in the poem .Sometimes it provides information about characters in order to make audience understand about the poem.

Tone ♥

Definition: Tone is when someone reading a poem, an essay or when they speak, their voice

tone rising or falling like: happy tone, sad tone, angry tone,etc. Tone should not be confused

with mood, the feeling that a poem creates. Tone can often be summed up in one word--serious, ironic, humorous, etc.

Example:

Friend, I have lost the way.
The way leads on.
Is there another way?
The way is one. I must retrace the track.
It's lost and gone.

Significance: The importance of tone is it makes people feel lively when they read a poem. The poem will be more vivid, realistic, and emotional. If they have tone in it and that poem will attract more reader. The poet has to make sure that the poem must have the tone in order to respond the reader.

Interpretation ♥

Definition: interpretation is to clarify something. Explain to someone who understands a poem, sentences, text or a word.

Example:

A slumber did my spirit seal,

I had no human fears:

She seemed a thing that could not feel

The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;

She neither hears nor sees;

Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,

With rocks, and stones, and trees.

Significance: The importance of interpretation is to make people understand more about the poem. Poet has to make sure that the reader can easily to get the message from the poem. And if the age of the reader is lower, the poem must be easier to understand.

Simile ♥

Definition: simile is an art in speaking and writing. It means ca

rrying an object or a phenomenon compare to other object or phenomena. Often associated with:as, is, like, etc.

Example:

O My Luve's like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June;

O My Luve's like the melodie

That's sweetly played in tune.

As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear

While the sands o' life shall run.

And fare thee weel, my only luve,

And fare thee weel, awhile!

And I will come again, my luve

Tho' it ware ten thousand mile!

(Robert Burns)

Significance: The importance of simile is it compares two unlike thing in a poem in order to make the reader can imagine about the poem and easily understand it. It makes the poem more exciting and people have more fun when they read it. The writer has to have an rich imagination to charm the reader.

Extended Metaphor ♥

Definition: A metaphor which is drawn-out beyond the usual word or phrase to extend throughout a stanza or an entire poem, usually by using multiple comparisons between the unlike objects or ideas.

Example:

If they be two, they are two so

As still twin compasses are two;

Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show

To move, but doth, if th'other do.

And though it in the center sit,

Yet when the other far doth roam,

It lean and hearkens after it,

And grows erect, as that comes home

('A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning' - John Donne.)

Significance: Extended metaphor is important because it has more metaphor per stanza in order to make the reader not to be boring. Poem usually long but extended metaphor attracts people to read that poem. It has the same goal as the metaphor but it takes longer for the reader to get the message.

Metaphor ♥

Definition: Metaphor is a form of speech or phrase used to express a different entry of the same or close to that tone. Way metaphors are used frequently in literature, especially poetry - a posting with less words, where feelings and ideas into it is used to associate objects or features in all other.

Example:

Time slides

a gentle ocean

waves upon waves,

washing the shore,

loving the shore.

Significance: Metaphor is important in a poem because it provokes the reader to read it. It also entertains the reader. They feel like they are the main characters when they read the words in

each stanza metaphor. A metaphor is considered as a hidden game.

Stanza ♥

Definition: A poem divided into sections. A verse from two or more verses. Characterized by a common pattern of rhyme, and number of lines.

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,

O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?

And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?”

( Excerpts from "The Star Spangled Banner" Francis Scott Key )

Significance: I think stanza is important because after reading one verse we can stop, thinking about that stanza and be able to understand it well in order to make you understand a whole poem easier. Divided poem in many verses to catch people's attention in order to make them think that the poem is not boring and they can fell in with the rhythm of the poem.