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In Your Notebook - . .: List Different Types of Poetry You Know
In Your Notebook - . .: List Different Types of Poetry You Know
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Lyric Poetry
Lyric poetry typically describes the poet's
innermost feelings or candid observations
and evokes a musical quality in its sounds
and rhythms.
Lyric poems exhibit an endless variety of
forms.
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
Lyric poems focus on the sound and rhythm
Haiku: a lyric, unrhymed poem of Japanese
origin with seventeen syllables divided into three
lines.
It is usually on the subject of nature and humans'
relationship to nature.
The moon is a week old -
A dandelion to blow
Scattering star seed.
Haiku Format
I am first with five
Then seven in the middle --
Five again to end.
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
Cinquain: a five-line stanza apparently of
medieval origin, often with two, four, six, eight,
and two syllables respectively in the five lines.
Listen...
With faint dry sound,
Like steps of passing ghosts,
The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break from the trees
And fall.
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
Sonnet: a very old form of poetry, having
gained prominence during the
Renaissance, but not found much in
poetry for children.
It contains fourteen lines, each line with five
iambic feet (or ten syllables).
Shakespeare wrote Sonnets
Sonnet Example
OH for a poet -- for a beacon bright
To rift this changeless glimmer of dead gray;
To spirit back the Muses, long astray,
And flush Parnassus with a newer light;
To put these little sonnet-men to flight
Who fashion, in a shrewd, mechanic way,
Songs without souls, that flicker for a day,
To vanish in irrevocable night.
O
Wet
Pet
Ode Example
Ode to Aphrodite
Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,
With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit
Lady, not longer!
Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!
Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,
Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho
Forth from thy father's
Golden house in pity! ...
Other Types
Poems can be satirical, political,
revolutionary, scandalous
Poems can pretty much be whatever you
want or need
Different parts of the world all have their
own form of poetry
Written, spoken, to music
Odes
Write your own ode
Choose someone or something to write an
ode about
Open format
Name That Poem
What Type of Poem Is It???
GIVE him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will, --
But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.
In spite of all fine science disavows,
Of his plain excellence and stubborn skill
There yet remains what fashion cannot kill,
Though years have thinned the laurel from his brows.
All of the end rhymes are masculinethat is, each consists of a single
syllable. (You may have noticed that the last word of the poem,
difference, has more than one syllable. However, only the last syllable
completes the rhyme with hence in line 22. Therefore, masculine rhyme
occurs.)
The Road Not Taken
Which Is the Road Not Taken?
You may have noticed that the title of the
poem can refer to either road. Here's why:
The speaker takes the road "less traveled"
(line 19). In other words, he chooses the
road not taken by most other travelers.
However, when he chooses this less-
traveled road, the other road then
becomes the road not taken.
Themes
Individualism
.......The speaker chooses to go his own way, taking the road less
traveled (line 19).
Caution
.......Before deciding to take the "road less traveled" (line 19), the
speaker takes time to consider the other road. He says, "[L]ong I
stood / And looked down one as far as I could" (lines 3-4).
Commitment
.......The speaker does not have second thoughts after making his
decision.
Accepting a Challenge
.......It may be that the road the speaker chooses is less traveled
because it presents trials or perils. Such challenges seem to appeal
to the speaker.