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.