poetry 101 you’ll be a poet and you know it. types of poetry there are three major types of...
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Poetry 101You’ll be a poet and
You know it
Types of Poetry
• There are three major types of poetry:• Narrative• Dramatic• Lyric
Narrative Poetry
• Tells a story and has a plot, characters and setting• An EPIC is a long narrative poem about the adventures of gods or heroes• A BALLAD is a songlike narrative that has short stanzas and a refrain
Dramatic Poetry
• Tells a story using a character’s own throughts or spoken statements
Lyric Poetry
• Expresses the feelings of a single speaker about a topic• Lyrical poetry is the most common type of poem in modern literature
Putting it all together…
Poetic form refers to the how a poem is constructed
POETIC FORM
LineMeaning
A single line in a poemExample1 Some say the world will end in
fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.
5 But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo know that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.
How many lines are in this
poem?
StanzaMeaning
A group of consecutive lines in a poem that form a single unit; a “paragraph” in a poem
Example 1 Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.
5 We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.
How many Stanzas are in
this poem?
StructureThe arrangement of lines in a poem
Usually by number of lines
Couplet
MeaningTwo consecutive lines of poetry that usually
rhymeCouple = 2
Example
1 Tiger! Tiger! burning bright,In the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?
5 In what distant deeps or skiesBurnt the fire in thine eyes?On what wings dare he aspire?What the hand dare seize the fire?
How many couplets are in
this poem?
QuatrainMeaning
4 lines in a poem; a 4 line stanza Quad = 4
Example 1 Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd Immortality.
5 We slowly drove, he knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his civility.
Sestet
Meaning6 lines in a poem
Example
1 Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:5 Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed; But thy eternal summer shall not fade,10 Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest, Nor shall Death brag thou wanderest in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growest; So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Rhyme and Meter
1. Rhyme
Meaning The repetition of similar sounds
The sounds are not always exactly the same The spelling does not have to be the same
Example Thinking , linking Bake, cake Frog, hog High, sky Mean, fine
4. End Rhymes
MeaningWhen the rhymes come at the end of the lines
ExampleWhere in this book
do you think I should look?
Every day I look at the sky.
I think of my life and ask myself why.
5. Internal RhymesMeaning
Rhymes that occur within a line of poetry
Example I set my hat on the mat I was a fool who skipped school
6. Rhyme SchemeMeaning
A regular pattern of rhymeLetters are used to represent like sounds
Example ABAB =
Riches I hold in light esteem,
And Love I laugh to scorn;
And lust of Fame was but a dream
That vanished with the morn -
AAAA
AAAA
BABA
BABA
7. MeterMeaning
The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in poetry as expressed by syllabication.
Syllabication is the use of stressed and unstressed markings.
POETRY DEVICESFigurative Language
Sound Devices
Poetic Forms