F REE

VE R S E
POETRY mam
 OBECTIVES

1. Determine specific forms and

conventions of poetry
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-7)
2. Use selected elements of poetry in
short exercises
(HUMSS_CW/MP11/12c-f-8)
ACTIVITY

Free Verse
Poetry
 ANALYSIS

a.What is a free verse poetry?

b.How is it different from a

conventional poetry?
FREE VERSE POETRY

• free from the limitations of fixed meter,

rhythm and rhyme patterns
• makes use of normal pauses and natural
rhythmical phrases as compared to the
strict adherence to a particular form of
conventional poetry.
FREE VERSE POETRY

• a poet is given freedom to write in a way

and style that pleases him/her and
his/her readers
• the poet utilizes and plays with what is
easily configurable in a poem, that is, the
backbone of a poem's structure - its line.
ELEMENTS

LINE LINE BREAKS

ENJAMBMENT
 LINE
Example:
Come Slowly, Eden
Emily Dickinson

Come slowly, Eden LINE

Lips unused to thee.
Bashful, sip thy jasmines,
STANZA
as the fainting bee,
Reaching late his flower,
Round her chamber hums,
Count his nectars - alights,
And is lost in balms.
 LINE

• poem is divided into a unit of

language called a LINE
• a LINE is to poetry as a sentence
is to fiction; a STANZA is to a
poem as a paragraph is to a story
LINE BREAKS
Example:

My heart aches; and a drowsy numbness pains

My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drain.
That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees LINE BREAKS
In some meodious plot
Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease

- “Ode to the Nightingale” (excerpt, 1819),

John Keats
LINE BREAK
• It is the point where one ends a line
and begin with another.
• offers dynamism and ambiguity,
provide pauses in reading and
determine the visual shape of the
poem
ENJAMBMENT
Example:

April is the cruelest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
-“The Waste Land” (excerpt, 1922),
ENJAMBMENT

• a thought in a line of a poem that does

not end at the line break but moves over
to the next line
• lets an idea carry on beyond the
restrictions of a single line
APPLICATION / ASSESSMENT

It was many and many a year ago

In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

-Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe

 APPLICATION / ASSESSMENT

It was many and many a year ago ENJAMBMENT

In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived whom you may know LINE
STANZA
By the name of Annabel Lee
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
LINE BREAK
Than to love and be loved by me.

-Annabel Lee, Edgar Allan Poe

APPLICATION

ANSWER
WORKSHEET
ASSESSMENT
INDIVIDUAL TASK – 1 whole sheet of
paper
Write a short free verse poetry about any of the following
subjects and themes. (English or Filipino)

SUBJECT THEME
Pencil Friendship

Slipper Love

Mirror Trust
 ASSESSMENT

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

Though its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore; 2
1 For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as “Nevermore.” 3
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