Types of Poetry ♥

TYPES OF POETRY!

♥ Narrative
 ♥Definition: A poem that tells a story.
  ♥Example:
  

With tresses all seaweed-y and shell-strewnbut barely brushing her breasts,

and her tail clinging to rocks all wave-hewn,

as her scales glisten with bubbles and brine,

she misses her freshwater step-sister,

the voluptuous vamp of the Rhine.

Splashing down like a swift-diving sea loon,

a semi-manned space capsule floats, rests –- 

now cracks like a metal egg hatched on a moon.

Steel-skinned, he wades out, while whirring a whine:

Wanting his mama, this sky-sailing mister,

Crying dry tears for the mother-lode mine.

Such presence of mutual absence: a common boon?

Half-girl + demi-boy, sea with sky nests.

Fabled anatomy and automaton, both smitten, thus swoon

Into marriage-mix mystery, a miracle sign:

No human hearts to meld, nor Cupid’s wounds to blister,

When myth-born maid and man-made parts entwine.

♥Ballads

 ♥Definition: A poem that tells a story similar to folk tail or legend which often has a repeated refrain.

   ♥Example: 

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

 ♥Definition: An extensive, serious poem that tells the story about heroic figure.

   ♥Example:

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, 

By the shining Big-Sea-Water, 

At the doorway of his wigwam, 

In the pleasant Summer morning, 

Hiawatha stood and waited.

♥Lyric

 ♥Definition: A poem that expresses the thoughts and feelings of a poet.

   ♥Example: 

Turn back the heart you've turned away

Give back your kissing breath

Leave not my love as you have left

The broken hearts of yesterday

But wait, be still, don't lose this way

Affection now, for what you guess

May be something more, could be less

Accept my love, live for today.”

“Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimmed,

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.

♥Sonnets

 ♥Definition: A lyric poem that consist of 14 lines which usually have one or more conventional rhyme           ddddddddddschemes.

   ♥Example: 

Sad heart please disguise

For I cannot hide

how I feel inside

Tears behind my eyes

My sad hearts capsized

Shipwrecked by the tide.

My thoughts start to slide

Into a sunrise

Its there I escape

Like a bird in flight

There I feel the shape

of ships in the night 

On a lost landscape

far away from sight

♥Odes

 ♥Definition: A lengthy lyric poem typically of a serious or meditative nature and having a elevated style and ddddddddddformal stanza structure.

   ♥Example: 

Thanks to the word

that says thanks!

Thanks to thanks,

word

that melts

iron and snow! 

The world is a threatening place

until

thanks

makes the rounds

from one pair of lips to another,

soft as a bright

feather

and sweet as a petal of sugar,

filling the mouth with its sound

or else a mumbled

whisper.

Life becomes human again:

it’s no longer an open window.

A bit of brightness

strikes into the forest,

and we can sing again beneath the leaves.

Thanks, you’re the medicine we take

to save us from

the bite of scorn.

Your light brightens the altar of harshness. 

Or maybe

a tapestry

known

to far distant peoples.

Travelers

fan out

into the wilds,

and in the jungle

of strangers,

merci

rings out

while the hustling train

changes countries,

sweeping away borders,

then spasibo

clinging to pointy

volcanoes, to fire and freezing cold,

or danke, yes! and gracias, and

the world turns into a table:

a single word has wiped it clean,

plates and glasses gleam,

silverware tinkles,

and the tablecloth is as broad as a plain. 

Thank you, thanks,

for going out and returning,

for rising up

and settling down.

We know, thanks,

that you don’t fill every space-

you’re only a word-

but

where your little petal

appears

the daggers of pride take cover,

and there’s a penny’s worth of smiles.

♥Elegies

 ♥Definition: A sand and thoughtful poem about the death of an individual.

   ♥Example: 

Too proud to die; broken and blind he died The darkest way, and did not turn away, A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride On that darkest day, Oh, forever may He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow Young among the long flocks, and never lie lost Or still all the numberless days of his death, though Above all he longed for his mother's breast Which was rest and dust, and in the kind ground The darkest justice of death, blind and unblessed. Let him find no rest but be fathered and found, I prayed in the crouching room, by his blind bed, In the muted house, one minute before Noon, and night, and light. the rivers of the dead Veined his poor hand I held, and I saw Through his unseeing eyes to the roots of the sea. (An old tormented man three-quarters blind, I am not too proud to cry that He and he Will never never go out of my mind. All his bones crying, and poor in all but pain, Being innocent, he dreaded that he died Hating his God, but what he was was plain: An old kind man brave in his burning pride. The sticks of the house were his; his books he owned. Even as a baby he had never cried; Nor did he now, save to his secret wound. Out of his eyes I saw the last light glide. Here among the liught of the lording sky An old man is with me where I go Walking in the meadows of his son's eye On whom a world of ills came down like snow. He cried as he died, fearing at last the spheres' Last sound, the world going out without a breath: Too proud to cry, too frail to check the tears, And caught between two nights, blindness and death. O deepest wound of all that he should die On that darkest day. oh, he could hide The tears out of his eyes, too proud to cry. Until I die he will not leave my side.

♥Free Verse

 ♥Definition: Poetry written in either rhyme or not rhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.

   ♥Example:

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.

♥Significance

 ♥It's important to have these poetry terms because it will make the word poetry complete. I have noticed that different countries have different types of poems. These are just some examples of it. We don't have to like all types of poems, we can decide which type of poem we would like to do. It's also important to have poetry, because it makes us express our feelings.

   

POETRY TERMS: Lines ♥

LINES!

Definition: A lot of words combined into a lines. A lot of lines combined together to make a poem.

Example:
I am fast and fun.
I can dream, dreams that nobody has dreamt before.
I would go on adventures all over the world.
I want to write out my imagination.
I enjoy seeing peace.

I am fast and fun.
I want to fly and taste the air.
I am not afraid to say what I want.
I feel such smooth things that touch my fingers.
I find such pretty things in nature.

I am fast and fun.
I want to be a soccer star.
I think hard about things.
I wonder where we go when we fade.
I feel so great when I help someone.

Significance: Its important to have lines in poems because without lines there won't be a poem. They depend on each other to create poetry.

POETRY TERMS: Assonance ♥

ASSONANCE!

Definition: The use of the same vowel sound with different consonants or the other way around.

Example:
Flash with a rash gimme my cash flickin' ash
Runnin with my money, son, go out with a blast.

Significance: Its important to usse assonance in poetry because it will make the poem sound more interesting. Just like the other terms.

POETRY TERMS: Alliteration ♥

ALLITERATION!

Definition: The repetition of the first sounds in words.

Example:
lazy lions and loafing leopards
lounged in low lying lagoons

lanky legged llamas looked for
little lost lambs

laughing lords loudy laughed
as leprechauns lept over lanterns

Significance: Its important to use alliteration because it can make the boring poem a little bit silly. It can me fun, and entertaining. It's like tongue twisters, and tongue twisters are FUN. I like alliteration because its easy to make, and fun to create.

POETRY TERMS: Meter ♥

Meter!

Definition: A poem that has a beat to it. Rhythmic poem that has a similar beat in each stanza.

Example:
I've known the toil of three score years
And built the arks of damned and dears,
And here I build unto this day;
O' how much longer can I stay?
I've known the lot of them from birth,
Have seen their tears, have heard their mirth,
Have heard a maiden wail with child
And each was born to be exiled —
Both king and knave; to common end
Do all the sons of Adam tend
Where mire and mitre come to blend —
We're wanderin’, we're wanderin'.

Significance: It's important to use meter in poems because when we read poem it sound more like a song. And we all know songs are freaking awesome. I personalty like songs wayy more than poems. But if they are the same, then i'll like poems a bit more. 

POETRY TERMS: Elegy ♥

ELEGY!

Definition: A mournful poem; Being sad for someone's death.

Example:
Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride

On that darkest day, Oh, forever may
He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed
Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow.

Significance: It important to have elegy poems because we can read it when we lose someone special. We can empathize with the poem's words and stanza. It like when your sad and you listen to a sad song that relates to your problem, well for this someone died, and you read elegy poems, to help you get though the sadness. 

POETRY TERMS: Couplet ♥

COUPLET! 

Definition: Two lines in a poem that are successful, as in two lines that rhyme and have the same meter.

Example:
Sir Lancelot was the first knight of the round table,
Saying he was a coward is a complete fable.

Significance: It is important to have couplets because it is important to rhyme. It helps the reader be more in to the poem. It makes the poem FUN, because when i thought of poem i thought of it all being boring. But its fun when you rhyme stuff.

POETRY TERMS: Symbol ♥

SYMBOL!

Definition: Thing that resemble something else.

Example:

The other day as I was ricocheting slowly
off the blue walls of this room
bouncing from typewriter to piano
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
I found myself in the “L” section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word, Lanyard.
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one more suddenly into the past.
A past where I sat at a workbench
at a camp by a deep Adirondack lake
learning how to braid thin plastic strips into a lanyard.
A gift for my mother.
I had never seen anyone use a lanyard.
Or wear one, if that’s what you did with them.
But that did not keep me from crossing strand over strand
again and again until I had made a boxy, red and white lanyard for my mother.
She gave me life and milk from her breasts,
and I gave her a lanyard
She nursed me in many a sick room,
lifted teaspoons of medicine to my lips,
set cold facecloths on my forehead
then led me out into the airy light
and taught me to walk and swim and I in turn presented her with a lanyard.
“Here are thousands of meals” she said,
“and here is clothing and a good education.”
“And here is your lanyard,” I replied,
“which I made with a little help from a counselor.”
“Here is a breathing body and a beating heart,
strong legs, bones and teeth and two clear eyes to read the world.” she whispered.
“And here,” I said, “is the lanyard I made at camp.”
“And here,” I wish to say to her now,
“is a smaller gift. Not the archaic truth,
that you can never repay your mother,
but the rueful admission that when she took the two-toned lanyard from my hands,
I was as sure as a boy could be
that this useless worthless thing I wove out of boredom
would be enough to make us even.”

Significance: It'm important to have symbols in poetry, because it is another why of saying something without using repetition. Symbols are different to everyone, it depends who they are and where they came from. Also if they are well educated or not.

POETRY TERMS: Rhyme ♥

RHYME!

Definition: When words in the poem sound alike. For example square and pear rhyme.

Example:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things

Cream colored ponies and crisp apple strudels
Door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles
Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings
These are a few of my favorite things

Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes
Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes
Silver white winters that melt into Springs
These are a few of my favorite things

When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad.

Significance: Its important to include rhyme because it sounds fun. Like rhythm. It has a beat and it rhymes. The words make the audience for into the poem more that other poems. I think rhymes are more for kids poems than hardcore adult poems.

POETRY TERMS: Rhythm ♥

RHYTHM!

Definition: Something that has a beat when reading a poem. A movement.


Example: 
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

Significance: It is important to have rhythm in poems because it makes the poem for fun and exciting. Like the poem we read in class "Casey at the bat". It was a fun and entertaining poem. It is even for fun when you read the poem out loud with tone.

POETRY TERMS: Interpretation ♥

INTERPRETATION!

Definition: The explaining of something, the meaning of something.

Example: Poems have many different meanings, it depends on the person, and how they interpret while reading the poem.

Significance: Its important to interpret because there are seven billion people on this plant, we each have different ways to understand and see poems. I believe interpretation is diverse because it depend on the person and where they came from.

POETRY TERMS: Extended Metaphor ♥

EXTENDED METAPHOR!

Definition: Extended metaphor is when a metaphor is extended in to a stanza or poem. It doesn't compare one thing but many things at once

Example:
School is jail.
Everyone hates it.
Release date is Graduation
Everyone is depressed
School is like a dark deep hole
deep like and ocean
depressed like an ant.

Significance: It is important to use extended metaphor because it is a skill of creating a poem. Also it makes the poem funny to read. It entertains the listener till the end of the poem. Short poems with extended metaphor are enjoying to read. 

POETRY TERMS: Speaker ♥

SPEAKER!

Definition: The person who is reading the poem out loud to an audience, which is known as the poet or can be a first person poem, for example the usage of "I".

Example: The speaker read the poem with perfect enunciation.

Significance: It is important to have a speaker because, without a speaker a poem won't be said out loud. Poems were made to be read out loud. Without the speaker than whats the point of making poems?

POETRY TERMS: Tone ♥

TONE!

Definition: The pitch of the voice. High and low pitches are used to express the feeling and meaning in poems.

Example: When an artist sings, he or she sings in high or low pitches to set the tone for the song.

Significance: It is important to include tone while reading poems because it gives the poem more energy. It entertains the listener more, keeps him or her interested till the end. Tone is one of the basic things we need when reading a poem out loud. 

POETRY TERMS: Onomatopoeia ♥

ONOMATOPOEIA!

Definition: It is a word that is written to imitate the sound.

Example:
Dogs say "roof"
Cat say "meow"
Human say "Hi"

Significance: It is important to include sound in a movie. It is also important to include sound in a poem too.

POETRY TERMS: Personification ♥

PERSONIFICATION!

Definition: When an object is used or compared to a human. An ironic way to write poetry. It can also be described as an animal.

Example:
The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.

Significance: When people read poems that include personification, they think its more interesting. And comparing things makes it easier to understand. It puts the dramatic-ness in boring poems.

POETRY TERMS: Simile ♥

SIMILE!

Definition: A figure of speech that compares two unlike things using "like", "as", and "than".

Example:
Pretty as a picture
Sweeter than a swisher
Mad cause I'm cuter than the girl that's witcha (with you)
(Pretty Girl Rock- Keri Hilson)

Significance: The importance of simile is that it compares unlike things, to make you understand the poem more. It makes the poem fun to read, and ironic. It puts for feeling into the stanza of the poem.

POETRY TERMS: Metaphor ♥

METAPHOR!

Definition: Making an ironic caparison to something to another thing. Not using "like", "as" and "than" because similes us those terms. I will make a post about simile soon.

Example:
I wanna be the substrate to your enzyme.

Significance: I think it is important to compare things in poetry. To me poetry is another language, a beautiful language,and it takes time to perfect it. Comparing things, help us understand the language. Poems is full of secrets. Without metaphors poetry and speaking wouldn't be fun. For example "I wanna be the girl in your life" it sounds sweet but "I wanna be the substrate to your enzyme" sounds sweet and fun.

POETRY TERMS: Stanza ♥

STANZA!

Definition: A stanza is like a paragraph in poetry. It is made up with four or more lines and, nearly the same length. It can rhyme, it divides the poem into parts.

Example:
You changed my world with a blink of an eye  
That is something that I cannot deny                  
You put my soul from worst to best
That is why I treasure you my dearest Marites
(First Stanza)
You just don't know what you have done for me
You even pushed me to the best that I can be
You really are an angel sent from above
To take care of me and shower with love.

(Second Stanza)

Significance: I think it is important to have stanzas because after each stanza we stop and take a breathe. Each stanza divides the poem into parts so we can understand it better. It makes the poem look organized not messy and all over the place.

POETRY TERMS: Imagery ♥

IMAGERY!

Definition: Image is in the word, so it has to do something with images, or imagining. Poems relate to imagery by using descriptive words to set and image in the reader's mind. Each person will have different images in their mind because everyone has different brains.



Example:
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright -
And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

(Lewis Carroll)

Significance: The importance of imagery is that you can imagine what the poet is describing. It helps you understand the poem more, by using your experience to connect to theirs. Also to understand the meaning of the poem. I like the fact that each person imagine things differently. Everyone's way of thinking is different. Imagery is one of the things that are diverse to us humans.

POETRY TERMS: Poetry ♥

POETRY!

Definition:   A meaningful way to express literature. It can rhyme, or based on a specific number of syllable, and more. Poems must be read out loud to express the feelings of the poem. 

Example: 

Haikus are easy.

Sometimes they do not make sense.

Refrigerator. 

Significance:   It's important to expand your ways of writing literature. Poetry is a form of literature, its like a box filled with feeling and labeled as meaningful. Also you can express yourself by making or reading poetry. Poetry to me comes from the heart more than the brain. For example, an essay comes from the brain, not from the heart. From what i learnt in Physical Education class, it's important to express yourself, don't let all the thing blown into a balloon until it explodes, and you will lose control of yourself. Sometimes bars have a Poetry Corner is when on a specific night, people come in and read poetry.