WEEK 6 Types of Poetry

Types of poetry
TYPES OF
POETRY Special
LYRIC Narrative dramatic
types
Dramatic
SONNET epic Haiku
monologur
soliloquy Cinquain
elegy Ballad
Character
sketch Limerick
ode Social oration Name poem
Free verse
Lyric poem
 is a short poem which has the
characteristics of a song
 It pertains to a single mood or

feeling and is more personal in
nature.
SONNET
 The Name sonnet derives from
Italian word sonneto which means
little song.
 is a relatively short poem consisting of

merely fourteen lines. It is known to follow
a strict pattern of rhyme.
 Classified into Petrarchan,

Shakespearean, Spenserian and Miltonic
sonnets.
Sonnet
by116
William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
Elegy
 This is a lyric poem which
expresses lament and mourning of
the dead, feeling of grief and
melancholy.
 The theme of this poem is death.

Lycida
sBy John Milton
Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more
Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-sear,
I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude,
And with forc'd fingers rude,
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing
year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,
Compels me to disturb your season due:
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime.
Ode
 This is apoem of nobling feeling, expressed
with dignity and praises for some persons,
objects, events or ideas.
 It is exalted in tone and formal in structure and

content.
Ode on a Grecian
By John Keats
Urn
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Narrative poetry
 Types of poet that narrates a story
through the use of poetic diction either
real or imaginary
 Narrative poem has special appeal.
 This form of poetry describes events in a

vivid way, using some of the elements as
short stories, plot characters and dialogue.
Epic
 This is a long and narrative poem that normally
tells a story about a hero or an adventure.
 Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in

written form.
1. Popular or ancient poetry is usually without

definite author and slow in the development.
2. Modern epic poetry has a definite author.
5 Greatest examples of epic poem
Beowulf by Anonymous - This is an Old English language heroic epic
poem of anonymous authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex
manuscript from between the 8th to the 11th century and relates events
described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden.
Metamorphoses by Ovid - This is a narrative poem in fifteen books that

describes the creation and history of the world.
The Odyssey by Homer - The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer’s Iliad
and mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey
home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy.
Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - This is an epic poem from

Ancient Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary
fiction.
The Iliad by Homer - oldest extant work of literature in the ancient Greek
language, making it the first work of European literature.
Ballad poems
 It also tell a story, like epic poems
however, ballad poetry is often based on a
legend or a folk tale.
 Most ballads are written in four-six stanzas
and has a regular rhythms and rhyme
schemes.
 A ballad often features a refrain-a regular

repeated line or group of lines.
The
by Unknown author
Mermaid
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.
Social poem
 This is either purely comic or tragic
and pictures the life of today.
 It may aim to bring changes in
social conditions.
Dramatic poetry
 Has elements related closely to the drama.
 It uses a dramatic technique and may

unfold a story.
 It emphasize the character rather than the

narrative.
Dramatic monologue
 This is a combination of drama and
poetry.
 It presents some line or speech of

single character in a particular but
complicated situation and sometimes in
a dilemma
Soliloquy
 The speaker of the poem or the
character in a play delivers a passage.
 The thoughts and emotions are heard

by the author and the audience as well.
Oration
 This Is a formal address elevated in
tone and usually delivered on some
notable occasion.
Character Sketch
 This is a poem which the writeris
concerned less with the elements of
story.
 He presents his observations and

comments to a particular individual.
Special
Types of
poems
Haiku
 Special type of poetry which
originated from Japan.
 It’s the shortest type of poem and,
often, the most difficult to understand.
 It consists of three lines that generally

do not rhyme. The lines should have five,
seven, and five syllables in them.
 Thebest-known Japanese
haiku is Bashō's "old pond":
fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)
ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)
mi-zu no o-to (5)
Translated
old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound
LIMERICKS
-Common form of humorous poetry
-5 line poem that has 2 lines that rhyme
and 3 lines that rhyme
-usually funny or silly
LINE 1- 7 to 10 SYLLABLES
Cinquain
 This is five-line poem which also originated in
Japan.
There are many different variations of cinquain
including American Cinquains, didactic cinquains,
reverse cinquains, butterfly cinquains and crown
cinquains.
LINE 1- 2 SYLLABLES NOUN
LINE 2- 4 SYLLABLES 2 ADJECTIVES
LINE 3- 6 SYLLABLES 3 -ing words
LINE 4- 8 SYLLABLES a phrase
LINE 5- 2 SYLLABLES another word for the noun=
ABAAB
Free

Verse
A loosest type of poem.
 It can consists as many lines as the

writer wants and either rhyme or not
and has no fixed metrical pattern.
 This type of poem openly called as

“Poem with no rules.”
Feelings, Now
by Katherine Foreman
Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there.
Name poem/Acrostic
 A special type of poetry belong to
descriptive poetry that use an adjective
to describe a person that begins with
each letter of that person's name.
Taylor
Taylor likes each sentiment to be
Appropriate to its own time and place.
Years may roll like waves across her shore,
Leaving none of what there was before,
Obliterating every sign of grace.
Reason not, says Taylor, with the sea!
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Types of poetry

ode Social oration Name poem

 It pertains to a single mood or

 is a relatively short poem consisting of

 Classified into Petrarchan,

 The theme of this poem is death.

 It is exalted in tone and formal in structure and

 Narrative poem has special appeal.

 This form of poetry describes events in a

 Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in

1. Popular or ancient poetry is usually without

Metamorphoses by Ovid - This is a narrative poem in fifteen books that

Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - This is an epic poem from

 A ballad often features a refrain-a regular

 It uses a dramatic technique and may

 It emphasize the character rather than the

 It presents some line or speech of

 The thoughts and emotions are heard

 He presents his observations and

 It consists of three lines that generally

 It can consists as many lines as the

 This type of poem openly called as

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