Elements of

Poetry
By:
Prof. Algene Malte De Guzman, cPhD, MAELT, TESOL, RIEng(SrM), OTMT
 Learning Objective

Discuss the elements of poetry.

The Elements of Poetry
 Voice
 Diction
 Imagery
 Sound
 Form
 Theme
 Figurative Language
 Voice
 What the speaker lends
 Can be the poet or the
character
 Voice has tone
 Tone is implied attitude
 Tone is abstraction
Queen
 Diction
 “The best words in their
best order.”
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 Poet’s word choices
 Denotation
 Connotation
 What is
the meaning
of this?
 Imagery
 Interpreted by our senses
 Pictures and scenes we imagine
 Appeals our senses
 Images are concrete
representations
 Triggers imaginative re-
enactment of experience
Can you imagine
this?
 Sound
 This is the use of:
 Rhyme
 Alliteration
 Assonance
 Rhythm
 Meter
Can you
hear the
sound?
 FORM
 Form
 Structured
 Closed
 Free verse
 Open
Structured?
Free verse?
 Theme
 Abstraction or generalization
 An intellectually
apprehensible meaning
 Inherent and implicit
 Can be multiple
 Find central idea
 Understand significance
Tell the
theme.
 Figurative Language
 More than words actually mean.
 Ornament of language.
 Puts the beauty in everything
said.
 Simile, metaphor,
personification, hyperbole,
onomatopoeia , idiom
Figure this
one out.
That ends Summer, not the fun.
For tomorrow is another road to run.
Let it sink in, like nature’s way.
This is all I have to say, “Good day!”

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