Reading and Writing Poetry

Elements for specific forms

Conventional forms

Determine specific forms and conventions of poetry HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f7D

Read and analyze the sample poems
TREES
By Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem

lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest.
Against the earth's sweet flowing
breast;
A tree that looks at God all day.
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear A nest
of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me, But
only God can make a tree.
What is conventional poetry?

❑ Traditional
poetry a fairly regular meter
(rhythm), often has a rhyme scheme, and
looks “orderly” when printed, with lines of
about the same length and the same number
of lines per stanza.

❑ Non-traditional poetry (often called “free verse”).

Examples:

Tanaga
Diona
haiku
Tanaga

❑ type of short Filipino poem, consisting of

four lines with seven syllables each with the
same rhyme at the end of each line --- that
is to say a 7-7-7-7 Syllabic verse, with an
AAAA rhyme scheme.
Examples of tanaga
Diona
 is an indigenous type of Filipino short poem that
consists of seven syllables in each line.
 Diona is a pre-Hispanic rhyming poem of three
lines with seven syllables in each line expressing a
complete thought
 is used traditionally in the Tagalog language to impart
lessons and reminders of our folks to young people.
Examples of diona
 Haiku
❑A Japanese verse form most often composed, in
English versions, of three unrhymed lines of
five, seven, and five syllables.
❑ A haiku often features an image, or a pair of
images, meant to depict the essence of a
specific moment in time.
Examples:
Identify the poems
1.Haiku 2.Diona
1.diona 2.tanaga
1.tanaga 2.haiku
Homework:

What is sonnet?
Identify the characteristics of
sonnet.