Forms of Poetry

JAR #11 Forms of Poetry

Types of Lyric Poetry Types of Lyric Poetry: • Ode • Haiku (Senryu) • Elegy • Sonnet • Concrete

Lyric Poem: Ode Glittering-throned, undying Aphrodite, Wile-weaving daughter of high Zeus, I pray thee, Tame not my soul with heavy woe, dread mistress, Nay, nor with anguish ! -Sappho • An elaborately structured poem praising or glorifying an event or individual, describing nature intellectually as well as emotionally

Lyric Poem: Haiku (Senryu) 初しぐれ猿も小蓑をほしげ也 hatsushigure sarumokominowo hoshigenari the first cold shower even the monkey seems to want a little coat of straw -Bashō • A very short form of Japanese poetry using three lines with a set number of syllables (5, 7, 5). Usually refer to nature or one of the four seasons.

Lyric Poem: Haiku (Senryu) 泥棒を捕えてみれば我が子なり dorobōwo toraetemireba wagakonari The robber, when I catch, my own son -SenryuKarai • Senryu poems have the same length as haiku but different topics • (usually politics)

Lyric Poem: Elegy I before my death, Have composed, An elegy of the Earth, Which (after war) Roodali of the Air will sing, Weeping and wailing, Sitting amid the burnt Decomposed bodies. -JawaazJafri • A mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead

Lyric Poem: Sonnet • A 14 line poem with 10 syllables per line, with a set rhyme scheme • (usually abab, cdcd, efef, gg)

Lyric Poem: Sonnet Example Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate;Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date;Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. -William Shakespeare

Lyric Poem: Concrete • A poem in which the shape of the poem on the page is as important as the words -Dave Landry

Types of Narrative Poetry Types of Narrative Poetry: • Ballad • Epic

Narrative Poem: Ballad loke ye do no husbondeharme That tilleth with his ploughe. No more ye shall no godeyeman That walketh by gren-wodeshawe; Ne no knyght ne no squyer That wol be a godefelawe. -Early Robin Hood ballad, (author unknown) • A poem that tells a story using short stanzas, often set to music, and using one of several rhyme schemes

Narrative Poem: Epic ‘There likewise I beheld Excalibur Before him at his crowning borne, the sword That rose from out the bosom of the lake, And Arthur rowed across and took it—rich With jewels, elfin Urim, on the hilt, Bewildering heart and eye—the blade so bright That men are blinded by it—on one side, Graven in the oldest tongue of all this world, “Take me,” but turn the blade and ye shall see, And written in the speech ye speak yourself, “Cast me away!” And sad was Arthur’s face Taking it, but old Merlin counselled him, “Take thou and strike! the time to cast away Is yet far-off.” So this great brand the king Took, and by this will beat his foemen down. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson • A lengthy narrative poem regarding heroic deeds significant to an entire culture or nation

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Forms of Poetry

Forms of Poetry

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FORMS OF POETRY

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Forms of Poetry