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.

Meter

Definition

the unit of counting, in terms of amount of beats, that is in a writing

Example

From Agincourt to Waterloo

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Poitiers and then Anjou

1 2 3 4 5 6 7

The Roses War, the Hundred Years

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Through battlefields of blood and tears
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Significance

Every poem have too need a meter. without meter the rhythm won't be here

Elegy

Definition

A type of tragedy poem where there might be death

Example

O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weathered 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.

Significance

Many good poems are elegy. Also when we are sad, we need to express those feelings out and writing an elegy poem is one way to go.

Rhyme

Definition

Sound of the words (critically at the end) will sound the same or similar to the next line ending phrase

Example

The light is dim now,

Everything that you see,

Now are dead to me.

Significance

Rhyme is a part of rhythm, it makes the writing sound better.

Rhythm

Definition

The beat of sound, tone, pause time of words in the writing

Example

No one sits with him,

He doesn’t fit in,
But we feel like we do when we make fun of him,

'Cause you want to belong,

Do you go along?
'Cause his pain is the price paid for you to belong
It’s not like you hate him

Or want him to die,

But maybe he goes home

And thinks suicide,
Or he comes back to school,

With a gun at his side,
Any kindness from you

Might have saved his life.

Significance

Rhythm is the main part of the poem. Without rhythm, there would be no poem.

Personification

Definition

compares an object or an animal to a human action or appearance

Example

Our family open their heart and accept us as a member of them.

Significant

There are things that when the author describes it and you can't imagine in your head or not understand it will. The personification can make it easier to imagine because it could be the action you do everyday.

Speaker

Definition

The one that is telling the story, poem.

Example

"Oh no!" said my sock,
"What a smell!
You need a bath, Mr. Shoe.
I can tell!"

[italic is the speaker]

Significance

This is important because the speaker is the narrator, with out the narrator, we won't understand the poems

Tone

Definition

the author's status toward the readers. Tone tells how is someone is felling

Example

Hitler's tone for sure that he is serious and strong.

Significant

The tone add the rhythm to the poem, making the poem to be better

Interpretation

Definition

A way of giving a meaning

Example
A Vietnamese woman sells a fish to a western guy. Because she can't speak English, she held out 3 fingers and her left hand is the fish.

Significance
If we don't understand what the author is saying then there is another way of understanding it.

Simile

Definition

compression between 2 different things; includes words like, same as, exactly, etc.

Example

Your eyes like the stars of night,
That we used to count.

Significant

The simile makes the compare easy to spot, so we could feel how is something like.

Extended Metaphor

Definition
a metaphor that is spread out through the poem or stanza

Example

A lifetime is a day,
death is sleep;
a lifetime is a year,
death is winter..

Life is a struggle,
dying is losing
a contest against
an adversary..

Significant
There are poems that they made to be a metaphor and we need to know extended metaphor and how it used in order to understand what author is saying

Metaphor

Definition

Figure of speech that compares something to something else that doesn't use words: like same, etc.

Example

The stars on the sky at night are the decoration of the christmas tree.

Significance

We need to know this type comparison because some poems like Haiku uses 5,7,5 sounds and the work like adds an extra sound that we don't need. If we could use this, the/ writing will become better.

Stanza

Definition
Synonym of paragraph. Used in poems.

Example

FRIENDSHIP DAY POEM
Author: unknown

I love you for that certain smile
That cheers me up when I'm blue
I love you for you tenderness
That warms me through and through

I love you for your kindness
And your understanding heart
THe one that, somehow, always says
"I love you very much"

significance
We would use appropriate word choice in right place.

Imagery

Definition
the pattern of imaginary pictures, figures of things

Example Picture



Example
The Picture


Significant
This word means the things that form in your head when you want to create something that describes. So if you are writing a poem about the sea but you are on the mountain, this imagery need to be used in order to accomplish your goal.



Resources
http://www.exoticindiaart.com/product/OR45/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/image
http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/i/imagery.asp

Poetry

Definition
Poetry is a type of art that being written or spoken that written in a rhythmic pattern and creates a beautiful peace of writing.


Differences

If I drink my coffee
with two spoons of sugar
and you drink your coffee with four
it doesn’t mean that mine is sweeter
it means our taste is different

If I am cold in the wind
and you are warm
it doesn’t mean you are not sensitive
it means that the warmth in our body
is different

If I hear the wind of the trees
and you don’t
it doesn’t mean that my hearing is better
it means we hear different things

If I look to the sky and see a kite
and you see an airplane
it doesn’t mean that I don’t see well
it means we see different things

The difference between us
makes us closer
If for taste, music, feelings
and appearance we act differently
it shows how special we are

by Odelia
Israel


I can't tell the future so I choose this based on the past. This poem of differences between people can be great part in the ethnography project because ethnography is the studying of different people around us and our community. Some people just think: "Hey! Poetry only uses rhythmic words! This doesn't rhyme!" Well what it should be is the writing doesn't need to be rhythmic, as long as it have a structure and feelings.

Resources:
http://kidspiritonline.com/2011/03/selected-poems-from-around-the-world/
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/poetry