Types of Poetry

Narrative Poetry- A poem that tells a story

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


Ballad- a poem that uses a phrase few times and often about love. This type is similar to a folk-tale

The Mermaid
by
Unknown author

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- poems that are ling and tells about a hero

Beowulf


lyric- Sonnet or ode. this poem express feelings and thoughts

Dying
(aka I heard a fly buzz when I died )
by
Emily Dickinson

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- Lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couple

Decision

There are only two possibilities
God the result of imagination
Or God the Lord over all creation
With supernatural abilities

Considering the liabilities
The former, a finite observation
The latter, spirit rejuvenation
With its infinite capabilities

Choosing the former one has to reason
What's wanted is some final solution
An end to it all with no life ahead
I choose the latter for a new season
Trusting in God as my resolution
Gaining promised eternal life instead


Odes- long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure

Ode To A Nightingale
by
John Keats

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:


elegies- Sad poems usually include death

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray

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- Poems with no rules. How AWESOME?

Song of Myself
by
Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Line

Definition
Row of words in a poem

Example
There are 3 lines in a Haiku poems
Golf ball

As life slices side to side
Shelved down carpeted hall
in cardboard box I hide

Significance
No line equal no poem

Symbol

Definition
Something represent something else

Example
In Animal Farm, Boxer was the symbol of the people who are hard working.

Significance
When the author don't want to talk directly or want to compare then they can use symbol

Onomatopoeia

definition
The words that designed to sound like an action

example
BUZZ
HUZZ
BANG
MUCH MUCH
POOF

Significance
This will make us hear what the author saying in the poem

Assonance

definition
The similarity between vowels.

Example
"Those images that yet
Fresh images beget,
That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."
(W.B. Yeats, "Byzantium")

Significance
Assonance is in the rhyme, poems usually have assonance because they have the same sound/vowel at the end.

Poem

Alliteration

Definition

the Use of same consonant or vowel of beginning word in a line or stress and unstressed syllable

Example

Alice’s aunt ate apples and acorns around August

or

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches
First Witch
When shall we three meet again
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Significance

It takes a very good writer to have this type of poem like William Shakespeare. This poem sound very good, tells story is a dramatic way.