It is said to have come from ancient songs, prayers or rituals. It is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonesthetics, sound symbolism. Poetry is a structured literary form, with patterns and rhythms that dictate the flow of verses.
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2. WHAT IS POETRY?
It is said to have come from ancient songs,
prayers or rituals.
Now, it has involved to any literary work.
It is a form of literature that uses aesthetic
and often rhythmic qualities of language − such
as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism.
Poetry is a structured literary form, with
patterns and rhythms that dictate the flow of
verses.
3. RHYME
The resemblance of sound between words or the endings of words,
especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry.
4. METER
The number of syllables per line and
the designated stress on syllables.
Example:
A group of lines forming the forming the
basic recurring metrical unit in a poem.
Example:
STANZA
6. FIGURES OF SPEECH
A figure of speech is created
when a writer uses figurative
language or that which has
another meaning other than
its basic definition.
A word or phrase used in a
non-literal sense for vivid or
rhetorical effect.
9. LYRIC POETRY Ancient Greek- connected to
death
Roman Ovid (43 B.C -17 AD) –
* Amores and Ars Amatoria.
Catallus (84-54 B.C) & Propertius (50-
16 B.C)
-elegiac couplets that denote love.
John Milton (1608-74)
John Keats (1795-1821)
Elegy is acquired its associated with
death.
The word lyric comes from the word lyre,
a stringed instrument especially used b
the ancient Greeks to accompany their
poems. Thus, lyric poetry as it is known
today has its links with music.
ELEGY
A poem of serious reflection, the elegy
has death as its main theme.
10. 2. Epigram
"I can resist everything but
temptation.“
- Oscar Wilde.
"No one is completely unhappy at
the failure of his best friend." -
Groucho Marx.
"If you can't be a good example,
you'll just have to be a horrible
warning."
- Catherine the Great.
A short and satirical poem with a
witty or ingenious ending. Often
used for remembrance, in
epitaphs or dedications.
A famous epigrammist:
Roman Martial (40- 104 AD)
11. 3. EPITHALAMIUM
Song of Solomon
1 The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's.
The Bride Confesses Her Love
She[a]
2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!
For your love is better than wine;
3 your anointing oils are fragrant;
your name is oil poured out;
therefore virgins love you.
4 Draw me after you; let us run.
The king has brought me into his chambers.
Others
We will exult and rejoice in you;
we will extol your love more than wine;
rightly do they love you.
She
I am very dark, but lovely,
O daughters of Jerusalem,
like the tents of Kedar,
like the curtains of Solomon.
Originally written in praise of the
Greek god of marriage, Hymen.
The epithalamium is a song or
poem featuring wedding
celebration.
Edmund Spenser (1552-99)
13. LIMERICK
The limerick is a humorous five-line poem with a
rhyme scheme of aabba.
• Nonsensical
• Deals with everyday affairs
• -marriage and love
• Edward Lear (1812-88) – popularized the form
with his book “A book of Nonsense”.
14. ODE
• Greek- “Song”
A lyric poem written in dignified tone to
idealized objects, qualities or ideas.
Odes are elaborately structured poems
praising or glorifying an event or
individual, describing nature intellectually
as well as emotionally
• Pindar (518-438 B.C)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
• William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
• Percy Shelley (1792-1822)
• John Keats (1795-1821)
15. PASTORAL
It is linked to shepherding
and animal breeding, the
pastoral is literary work that
features shepherds and
portrays or depicts country
life.
16. SONNET
The sonnet is one of the most famous forms
in English poetry. A poetic form is a type of
poem: each form has its own “rules” and is
associated with particular themes. Sonnets
are associated with desire: for centuries
poets have used the frame of the sonnet to
explore the complicated human experience
of romantic love.
Usually relating to love. The sonnet has three
quatrains (4 lines) rhyming abab cdcd efef,
and a couplet (2 lines)
JOHN MILTON
(On His Blindness)
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
( Astrophil and Stella)
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
( Sonnet from the Portuguese)
