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 Poetry

Poetry, like a song, is an

expression of a feeling, an
insight, a discovery (Tomeldan
et al., 1986, p. 269)
 Poetry
Poetry is literature that evokes a
concentrated
imaginative awareness of experience
or a specific emotional response
through language chosen and
arranged for its meaning, sound,
and rhythm.
Five things that we have to Poetry
remember about poetry
(Baritugo, 2004, p. 1):

a. Poetry is a concentrated thought.

b. Poetry is a kind of word-music.
c. Poetry expresses all the senses.
d. Poetry answers our demand for
rhythm.
e. Poetry is observation plus
imagination.
Elements
Of

Poetry
 Element
s of

1.Sense
is revealed through the
meaning of words, images Po
etr
y
and symbols.
 Element
s of
Poetry
a.Diction
denotative and connotative
meanings/symbols SE
NS
E
 Element
s of
Poetry
b.Images and sense
impression
sight, sound, smell, taste, SE
NS
E
touch, motion, and
emotions.
c.Figures
of Speech
 SIM
Figures of Speech ILE
 METAP
Figures of Speech HOR
 REMEM
Figures of Speech BER!
 PERSON
IFICATI
Figures of Speech ON
 APOSTRO
Figures of Speech PHE
 HYPER
Figures of Speech BOLE
 ANTITH
Figures of Speech ESIS
 ANTITH
Figures of Speech ESIS

That’s one small step for a

man, one giant leap for a
mankind.
 OXYMO
Figures of Speech RON
 IRON
Figures of Speech Y
 SYNECDOC
Figures of Speech HE
 METONYM
Figures of Speech Y

It is used to substitute for a word.

Example:
All the candidates of Ms.
Universe competed for the
crown
 ELEMENTS

2. Sound
is the result of a combination of
elements. OF
PO
ET
RY
 SOUND

a.Tone color
alliteration, assonance, consonance,
rhyme, repetition, anaphora
b. Rhythm
ordered recurrent alteration of
strong and weak elements in the
flow of the sound and silence:
duple, triple, running or
common rhyme
c. Meter
stress, duration, or number of
syllables per line, fixed metrical
pattern, or a verse form:
quantitative syllabic, accentual,
and accentual syllabic
d.Rhyme scheme
arrangement of rhymes in
stanza or the poem.
 ELEMENTS

3. Structure
refers to (1) arrangement of
words, and lines to fit together, OF
PO
(2) the organization of the parts ET
RY
to form a whole.
 ELEMENTS
OF POETRY
a. Word order
natural and unnatural
arrangement of words ST
E RUC
TU
R
 ELEMENTS
OF POETRY

b. Ellipsis
omitting some words for
ST
economy and effect E RUC
TU
R
 ELEMENTS
OF POETRY

c. Punctuation
abundance or lack of punctuation
marks ST
R
E UC
TU
R
 ELEMENTS
OF POETRY
d. Shape
contextual and visual designs: jumps,
omission of spaces, capitalization, S
TR
and lower case. E UC
TU
R
Thank you for
listening!