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In your notebook . . . List different types of poetry you know
In your notebook . . .
List different types of poetry you know
Slam Poetry
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Examples
Example of ABC poem - author unknownExample:
A lthough things are not perfectB ecause of trial or pain
C ontinue in thanksgivingD o not begin to blame
E ven when the times are hardF ierce winds are bound to blow
Examples
Example of AllegoryThe Faerie Queeneby Edmund Spenser
Lo I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske,As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds,
Am now enforst a far vnfitter taske,For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds,
And sing of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds;Whose prayses hauing slept in silence long,Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds
To blazon broad emongst her learned throng:Fierce warres and faithfull loues shall moralize my song.
Examples
Example of Name Poem
Nicky byMarie Hughes
Nicky is a NurseIt's her chosen careerChildren or Old folks
Kindness in abundanceYear after year
Different Types of Poetry
• Narrative Poetry: Narrative poems tell stories in verse. A number of them are very old and were originally intended to be recited to audiences– Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey". – Ballads are a type of narrative poetry
Narrative Poems
• Ballad: A short narrative poem with stanzas of two or four lines and usually a refrain. – The story of a ballad can originate from a wide range of subject
matter but most frequently deals with folk-lore or popular legends.
– They are written in straight-forward verse, seldom with detail, but always with graphic simplicity and force.
– Most ballads are suitable for singing and, while sometimes varied in practice, are generally written in ballad meter, i.e., alternating lines of iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming.
– Major part of oral tradition
Ballad ExampleBallad of the Cool FountainFountain, coolest fountain,
Cool fountain of love,Where all the sweet birds comeFor comforting-but one,
A widow turtledove,Sadly sorrowing,
At once the nightingale,That wicked bird, came by,
And spoke these honied words:"My lady, if you will,I shall be your slave.“
"You are my enemy:Begone, you are not true!“
Green boughs no longer rest me,Nor any budding grove.
Clear springs, where there are such,Turn muddy at my touch.I want no spouse to loveNor any children either.
I forego that pleasure and their comfort too.No, leave me; you are false
And wicked-vile, untrue!I'll never be your mistress
!I'll never marry you!
Ballad Exmaples
A narrative poem: "The Broken-Legg'd Man" by John Mackey Shaw
http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/Broken-legged_Man.htm
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 fiveThen 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 ExampleOH 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.
What does it mean, this barren age of ours? Here are the men, the women, and the flowers,
The seasons, and the sunset, as before. What does it mean? Shall not one bard arise
To wrench one banner from the western skies, And mark it with his name forevermore?
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
• Limerick: a five-line humorous poem, the first, second, and fifth lines rhyming and the third and fourth lines rhyming. – It is one of the most popular poetic forms
among children– The fun of the limerick lies in its rollicking
rhythm and its broad humor
Limerick Example
Imagine a skunk who proposes,To his true love, surrounded by roses.
It may turn out just fine,When she falls for his line,
But I wonder if flowers have noses?
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
• Free Verse: adhering to no predetermined rules, but usually with its own intricate patterns of rhyme and rhythm– It requires the same thoughtful choice of
words and rhythmical patterns as the more rigid stanza forms.
Free VerseMy Shadow
by Robert Louis Stevenson
I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow-- Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes goes so little that there's none of him at all.
He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play, And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way. He stays so close behind me, he's a coward you can see; I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!
One morning, very early, before the sun was up, I rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup; But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy-head, Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.
Free Verse
Feelings, Now
Some kind of attraction that is neitherAnimal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power notSolar, fusion, or magneticAnd it is all in my head that I could see into hisAnd find myself sitting there.
Different Types of Lyrical Poetry
• Concrete Poetry: The words of a poem are arranged to form a pictorial representation of the poem's subject.
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Other Types
• Poems can be lyrical or narrative and something else
• An Epic is a long narrative poem celebrating the adventures and achievements of a hero– Epics deal with the traditions, mythical or
historical, of a nations– Beowulf, The Iliad and the Odyssey, and
Aeneid
Other Types
• Ode: An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing
• “Ode” comes from the Greek word “oide” meaning “to sing or chant.”
Ode to a Goldfish
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Wet
Pet
Ode Example
Ode to AphroditeDeathless 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'sGolden 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 PoemWhat 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.
Whether or not we read him, we can feel From time to time the vigor of his name Against us like a finger for the shame
And emptiness of what our souls reveal In books that are as altars where we kneel
To consecrate the flicker, not the flame.
SONNET!
• 14 lines
• 5 syllabals
Name That Poem
Knights
Armour ,shields
Fighting, charging, slaughtering
Worried, delighted, brave, fearsome
Crusaders
CINQUAIN
• 5 line stanza
Name That Poem
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee."
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
LIMERICK
• 5 lines
• Rhyming
• Humorous
Name That Poem
Green and speckled legs,Hop on logs and lily pads
Splash in cool water.
HAIKU
• 17 syllabals
• 3 lines
• Nature
Name That PoemAnnabel Lee
It was many and may 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.
I was a child and she was a child,In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heavenCoveted her and me.
And this was the reason that, long ago,In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chillingMy beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman cameAnd bore her away from me,To shut her up in a sepulchreIn this kingdom by the sea.
The angels, not half so happy in heaven,Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
But our love it was stronger by far than the loveOf those who were older than we-
Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreamsOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyesOf the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the sideOf my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,In her tomb by the sounding sea.
BALLAD
• Stanzas
• Musical
• Refrain
• Story
Name That Poem
Mirror, MirrorMy game face is blue. I must put it back on, see
How much of my glory was real And how much fever.
I see drawn eyes, too much marring,A suit of swan feathers
Without the matching shape.And however I imagine lights,
No straw spins to gold.I see as I have been seen,
Not radiant, but ashine in hopeYet to see a finish.
Free Verse
• No format
• Some rhyming and rhythm
Name That Poemtyphoons are not that strong
sometimesthey behave like
critics, passing by anisland, saying, hey youare not an island after all, you are just a hill
fit for a Bollywoodscene
I am in that islandfeeling some itch
of its breeze, but i was toobusy then
climbing oneof the narrative trees
there
and he asksis there such a thingas a narrative tree?
i crack the nutand drink the clouds
thereand he is filled with
so muchawe,
he gets itchyand scratchesall the skins
and even the boneshe rattles like
a snakeand wants to bite
the narrative treehas everything
to offergentle, and soft
and conversational
but he wants to denythis kind of tree
sayingthere is no such
thing as thatand this
oh my, what a manhe is
structured in his cagenot knowing
that he is meant tobe free
from the shackles ofhis verse
from the narrow alleysof hisrhyme
goodness, we do noteven try
grafting the metaphors
i love it herethis island where i touch
him notbut he touches me
i guessthat is envy.
NARRATIVE
• Telling a story
The Road Not Taken
• Read
• Answer questions
Questions
1. Do you think Frost intended the y in yellow (line 1) to suggest the diverging roads?
2. What is undergrowth (line 5)?
3. Does curiosity motivate the speaker when he makes his choice?
4. Write a 2 paragraph response about a time when you took a less-traveled road.
The Road Not Taken• "The Road Not Taken" is a lyric poem with four stanzas of five lines
each. (A lyric poem presents the feelings and emotions of the poet rather than telling a story or presenting a witty observation.)
• Background: Frost sets the poem on a forest road on an autumn morning. He received inspiration for the poem from the landscape in rural Gloucestershire, England. While living in Great Britain from 1912 to 1915, Frost and his family had rented a cottage, Little Iddens, near Dymock, Gloucestershire, in the summer of 1914
• Rhyme Scheme– The rhyme scheme of the poem is as follows: (1) abaab, (2) cdccd, (3)
efeef, (4) ghggh.
– All of the end rhymes are masculine—that 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.
