Poetry


Literary work in which special intensity is
given to the expression of feelings and ideas
by the use of distinctive style and rhythm;
poems collectively or as a genre of literature.
 Poem

A piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both
speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical,
usually metaphorical, and often exhibits such formal
elements as meter, rhyme, and stanzaic structure.

 RHYTHM

This is the music made by the statements of
the poem, which includes the syllables in
the lines.
 STANZA

Smaller unit or group of lines or a
paragraph in a poem.
 CREDENDA
By R. Vinzons Asis


I remembered God and I came
asking bread, became
tearfully insistent, heard
only ringing hunger: no word

So I left, cursing
but the thunder of my words
were as raindrops falling.

Saw God in my hunger:

heard his voice ringing
in my ears; saw the beauty
of his silence.
PHILOSOPHER’S LOVE SONG
By Tita Lacambra-Ayala

If truth is real
it will


become true

If truth is
unreal it will
not become

as you
are truth
as you are real
you will
become true
if not to me
at least to your self

at least to the part

that’s real
to me when I
touch you
SOOTHING AS NIGHT WINDS ARE
Salvador B. Espinas

Love is gentle, love is quiet

Like any distant star 
Love is beauty, love is music
Soothing as night winds are.

Love is patient and unselfish

Divine, true, neutral, fair –
Love is ageless and immortal,
Lost love is just somewhere

And the heart that abandons,

Nurses a tender scar,
Softly stabbing, and yet sweetly
Soothing as night winds are.
 RHYME

The similar sounding words in a poem.
SPEAK NOT
Soledad R. Juan


Speak not to me of great reception halls
Where stately ladies walk with stately men;
Speak not to me of dancing long at balls
Nor revelry till goodness knows but when.
I would not hear of how an endless round
Of parties, concerts, shows-all the rest forgot-
Is heaven. No, those pleasures find me bound;
They are not mine to taste-I know them not.
But speak to me of quiet, calm repose,
When I may think and give my thoughts free play,
Explore each nook imagination knows,
And roam the world a million times a day.
Then shall my soul find joyful hours alone
When all is mine that Fancy bids me own.
 
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Photograph: Father and kids at home
ni Imelda Morales Aznar

There is no balance in composition: all three

persons

are pushed to the left, and on the right
only the water meter, mailbox, and the number 17
in your delicate handwriting near the doorway.
My sister stands wearing a naughty grin
and a pendant of the crucified Christ over her shirt.
My year-old nephew is sitting in his carriage,
buckled
at the waist. His tiny, white toes alert.
In the background, the steel gate
of your sister’s house looms gray.
Yet like a child you sit on your haunches,
both hands clutching the pram’s handle bars.
And your whole face smiles
like the world is yours.
 THEME

This is what the poem is all about.
 Days will pass,
And things will grow old.
 Flowers will bloom,
And soon will decay.
But when friendship starts,
All of the year it will remain fresh.

Friends will grow old,

But friendship will never.
As long as we both care,
It will remain young forever.
Death will separate it on earth,
But it will reborn in heaven.
 SYMBOLISM

The use of an object to represent something
abstract.
This device is used by poet for readers to
create an image in their imagination.
Distillation
Jan L. Velasco
Watching the rain spilling down,
drowning the earth below,
 reminds me of
life's perpetual change.

The storm that we dread,

is a sea of kindness
that lifts--the mask
of (world's) avarice and sufferings
and fills the thirst, up to the brim of our souls.
 PERSONA

The one who is giving the message in a
poem.
I am lover of quietness-
Unechoed songs within a silent heart,

A sliver pond, a statued loveliness
Where words can take no part.

I love the quiet ways of memory,

The quiet looks to give you loving praise,
The quiet secrets of my misery
Through quiet nights and days.

The quiet mountains of the earth I love,

The moving clouds, the sun, the dewy leaf.
My quiet questioning o God above,
My quite, tearless grief
 
“City people are bombarded by noise. The numble of
trucks passing, the screech of the brakes, the blare of
radios and jukeboxes forever blast our ears. To a
person who spends days and nights in the noisy city,
the longing for quiet and serenity is understandable”
 ADDRESSEE

Something or someone the persona is
referring or talking to.
MARIA CLARA`S SONG
JOSE RIZAL

Sweet are the hours in one's native land,
Where all is dear the sunbeams bless;
Life-giving breezes sweep the strand,
And death is softened by love's caress.

Warm kisses play on mother's lips,

On her fond, tender breast awaking
When round her neck the soft arm slips,
And bright eyes smile, all love partaking.
 Denotative Meaning

Real meaning
Dictionary
Connotative Meaning

Meaning in the poem or
literary text
THE SAMPAGUITA
Natividad Marquez

Little sampaguita
With the wondering eye
Did a tiny fair
Drop you where you lie?

In the witching hour

Of the tropic night
Did the careless moonbeam
Leave you in its fight?
“As a child you must have looked

for the tiny buds as the early rain
began to fall. You probably watched
this buds develop into a flower
which perfumes the air. The
sampaguita is tiny and fragrant. We
use to make leis with which to greet
our friends who come to visits us.”
 LITERARY DEVICES

These were used to make the poem more
creative and interesting.
 LITERARY
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DEVICES
Figures of Speech
 Simile

 Like
 As
The truth is like a bad taste on his tongue.
Alan’s joke is like a flat soda to children, surprisingly
unpleasant.
The clouds were like ice cream castles in the sky.
Then I knew those tiny voices, clear as drops of dew.

I like pizza.
I like you.
Rina as Amihan.
 Metaphor

 Directly comparing two unlike things.
Love is…
Conscience is a man’s compass. –Vincent Van Gogh
You are the apple of my eye.
Blanket of stars.
Broken heart.
Cloudy memory.
Cold heart.
Life is a journey.
You are the light of my life.
 Assonance

 Vowel Sound
The light of a fire is sight.
Go slower over the road.
A - For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels
named Lenore (Poe)

Tongue twisters often use a combination of Alliteration

 Anaphora
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Carrying back
often used in poems

Complete the phrase Now is the time to…

Now is the time to
Now is the time to
Now is the time to

I came, I saw, I conquered - Julius Caesar

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. - Winston
Churchill

We are…
 Onomatopoeia

 Pronunciation imitates the sound of a thing action or animals
Poets

tik-tok
buzz
broom
clap

Wow!
Ouch!
Interjections
 Oxymoron
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 Oxy- sharp or keen
 Moron- foolish

There is a real love hate relationship developing

between both of you.
Suddenly the room is filled with deafening silence.

2 contradicting words
 Euphemism

 word or phrase that replaces a word or phrase to make it
more polite or pleasant.
A little thin on top instead of
bald
Passed away instead of
died
Put to sleep instead of
euthanize
 Hyperbole

 uses exaggeration for emphasis or effect

I’ve told you a hundred times

It cost a billion dollars
I could do this forever
Everybody knows that
 Irony

 using words where the meaning is the opposite of
their usual meaning
The Titanic was said to be unsinkable.
A plumber spends all day working on leaky faucets and
comes home to find a pipe had burst in his home.
Looking at her sons messy room, Mom says, “Wow,
you could win an award for cleanliness.
 Personification

 giving human qualities to non-living things or ideas
The flowers nodded.
The wind howled.
Time and tide waits for none.
The fire swallowed the the entire forest.
 Synecdoche

 when a part represents the whole or the whole is
represented by a part.
Wheels
- a car
Boots on the ground
- soldiers
 Tautology

 Stand up
 Sit down
 Lift up