Poem and Poetry

POEM AND POETRY
The function of poetry is to convey emotion or ideas to the readers’ or

listeners’ mind or ears. lt may also use devices, such as assonance and
repetition to achieve musical effect.
A Poet is a person who writes poems.
A Poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both

speech and songs, that is nearly always rhythmical, usually
metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme
and stanzaic structure.
Riddle Poem
A riddle poem is a riddle that is written in poem form. The reader
should answer the question of the riddle by reading clues in the verses
of the poem. Riddle poems are a lot of fun. ln composing riddle-poems
that sound good, rythm-speech rythm-is all-important.
Example of a riddle poem :
There is one that has a head without an eye
And there’s one that has an eye without a head
You may find the answer if you try
And when all is he answer said
Half the answer hangs upon a thread
What is that......?
Pins and needles

Remember
Most people feel the need for richer and more colorful statements in
order to present their ideas with greater force. Such language is called
figurative language. The ways of making language figurative are called
figures of speech.
Figurative language is one of the important elements in making poem.
Typical of Poem
Personification is a figure of speech that gives human forms, powers, or
feelings to animals, objects or ideas. lt makes things appear like a
person
Poem personification
THE LITTLE ROSE TREE
by Rachel Field
Every rose on the little tree
ls making a different face at me!
Some look surprised when l pass by
And others droop-but they are shy
These two whose heads together press
Tell secrets l could never guess
Some have their heads thrown back to sing
And all the buds are listening
l wonder if the gardener knows
Or if he calls each just a rose ?
a)Can roses speak to each other ?
b)Can roses sing a song ?
c)Does a rose have a face like a human ?
d)Why does the writer describe the roses like humans ?
e)What do the roses do in this poem?They make faces,...and
they even..........
• A Metaphor is a figure or of speech in which a word or phrase is taken
out of its usual setting and placed with another word to suggest a
likeness.
• Metaphor doesn’t use the word “like/as” as in similes
Example :
My love is red, red rose. (metaphor)
My love is like a red rose. (simile)
a. The metaphor is....
b. The simile is ‘Like....’
A Man Young and Old : Human Dignity
by William Buttler Yeats
Like the moon her kindness is

lf kindness l may call
What has no comprehension in’t
But is the same for all
As though my sorrow were a scene
Upon a painted wall
So like a bit of stone l lie
Under a broken tree
l could recover if l shrieked
My heart’ agony
To passing bird, but l am dumb
From human dignity
• A simile is a figure of speech in which two quite different things are
compared because they appear to be similar in at least one
characteristics.
• lf you say,”Cat’s eyes are like marbles”,it doesn’t mean that you
believe that you believe that cat’s eyes and marbles are really alike.
But the glassy shine of the cat’s ayes reminds you of the glassy shine
and the comparison helps to make a picture in words.
• Similes are particularly effective in literature , especially in poetry
The Elements Of Pooem
1. Rhythm
Rhythm in a poetry means the flow of sound produced by a
language. Rhythm shows the long and the short of sound or
movement. lt communicates the emotion of the poet. lt reveals the
emotion of happiness, sadness, gratness or other feelings.
2. Sounds
Poets often use the sounds of words to create effects in their
poems. We call the words rhymes.
e.g. Glory be to God for dappled thing (a)
For skies of couple color as a brindled cow (b)
For rose- moles all in stipple upon trout that swim (c)
Fresh fire coal chestnut-falls ; finches’ wings (a)
Landscape plotted and pieced fold, fallow, and plough (b)
And all trades, their and tackle and trim (c)
The rhyme scheme of the poem above is abcabc

lmagery
• lmagery refers to the sensations that the language creates in the
mind.
e.g. One must have a mind of winter
Forms
Poets give form to their verse in various ways. Much poetry, especially
written in the 1900’s, has no rhyme scheme. Such poetry is often called
free verse.
Name of Stanza (Verse) Number of Lines
Couplet 2 lines
Triplet 3 lines
Quatrain 4 lines
Quintet 5 lines
Sextet 6 lines
Octave 8 lines

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POEM AND POETRY

The function of poetry is to convey emotion or ideas to the readers’ or

A Poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both

Pins and needles

Personification is a figure of speech that gives human forms, powers, or

feelings to animals, objects or ideas. lt makes things appear like a

Like the moon her kindness is

The rhyme scheme of the poem above is abcabc

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