Type of poetry

Narrative: poem that express tone by story.

Ex:

typhoon

typhoons are not that strong sometimes they behave like critics, passing by an island, saying, hey you are not an island after all, you are just a hill fit for a Bollywood scene I am in that island feeling some itch of its breeze, but i was too busy then climbing one of the narrative trees there and he asks is there such a thing as a narrative tree? i crack the nut and drink the clouds there and he is filled with so much awe, he gets itchy and scratches all the skins and even the bones he rattles like a snake and wants to bite the narrative tree has everything to offer gentle, and soft and conversational but he wants to deny this kind of tree saying there is no such thing as that and this oh my, what a man he is structured in his cage not knowing that he is meant to be free from the shackles of his verse from the narrow alleys of his rhyme goodness, we do not even try grafting the metaphors i love it here this island where i touch him not but he touches me i guess that is envy. Ballad: a musical poem, use to express tone. Ex: Alas the joy, the sorrow, and the scorn, That clothed thy life with hopes and sins and fears, And gave thee stones for bread and tares for corn And plume-plucked gaol-birds for thy starveling peers Till death clipt close their flight with shameful shears; Till shifts came short and loves were hard to hire, When lilt of song nor twitch of twangling wire Could buy thee bread or kisses; when light fame Spurned like a ball and haled through brake and briar, Villon, our sad bad glad mad brother's name! Epic: This type of poem is wrote to celebrate a hero in the past. Ex: Your love taught me to grieve and I have been in need, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal Your love has taught me, my lady, the worst habits it has taught me to read my coffee cups thousands of times a night to experiment with alchemy, to visit fortune tellers It has taught me to leave my house to comb the sidewalks and search your face in raindrops and in car lights and to peruse your clothes in the clothes of unknowns and to search for your image even…..even….. even in the posters of advertisements your love has taught me to wander around, for hours searching for a gypsies hair that all gypsies women will envy searching for a face, for a voice which is all the faces and all the voices… Your love entered me…my lady into the cities of sadness and I before you, never entered the cities of sadness I did not know… that tears are the person that a person without sadness is only a shadow of a person… Your love taught me to behave like a boy to draw your face with chalk upon the wall upon the sails of fishermen's boats on the Church bells, on the crucifixes, your love taught me, how love, changes the map of time… Your love taught me, that when I love the earth stops revolving, Your love taught me things that were never accounted for So I read children's fairytales I entered the castles of Jennies and I dreamt that she would marry me the Sultan's daughter those eyes.. clearer than the water of a lagoon those lips… more desirable than the flower of pomegranates and I dreamt that I would kidnap her like a knight and I dreamt that I would give her necklaces of pearl and coral Your love taught me, my lady, what is insanity it taught me…how life may pass without the Sultan's daughter arriving Your love taught me How to love you in all things in a bare winter tree, in dry yellow leaves in the rain, in a tempest, in the smallest cafe, we drank in, in the evenings…our black coffee Your love taught me…to seek refuge to seek refuge in hotels without names in churches without names… in cafes without names… Your love taught me…how the night swells the sadness of strangers It taught me…how to see Beirut as a woman…a tyrant of temptation as a woman, wearing every evening the most beautiful clothing she possesses and sprinkling upon her breasts perfume for the fisherman, and the princes Your love taught me how to cry without crying It taught me how sadness sleeps Like a boy with his feet cut off in the streets of the Rouche and the Hamra Your love taught me to grieve and I have been needing, for centuries a woman to make me grieve for a woman, to cry upon her arms like a sparrow for a woman to gather my pieces like shards of broken crystal Lyric: poem that express tone and could be in music. Ex:  Verse 1: My life has been a story so sad, I never knew what it is I had Until came the time for you to leave. O what will happen to the dreams we weaved? Refrain: I guess it's time to say goodbye. And, oh, how I wish I knew why. Life is indeed a cruel adventure, But I tell you, this I know for sure... Chorus: That one day our paths will cross again, That we will meet in the very end. I'll miss you, oh that I know. But it's time for me to let you go. Verse 2: Without you, the days have all been empty, And how I wish that I be set free From all the pain, all the misery. So I could see tomorrow clearly. Odes: poem that express the thankfulness to someone or some event. Ex:  Thanks to the word that says thanks! Thanks to thanks, word that melts iron and snow! The world is a threatening place until thanks makes the rounds from one pair of lips to another, soft as a bright feather and sweet as a petal of sugar, filling the mouth with its sound or else a mumbled whisper. Life becomes human again: it’s no longer an open window. A bit of brightness strikes into the forest, and we can sing again beneath the leaves. Thanks, you’re the medicine we take to save us from the bite of scorn. Your light brightens the altar of harshness. Or maybe a tapestry known to far distant peoples. Travelers fan out into the wilds, and in the jungle of strangers, merci rings out while the hustling train changes countries, sweeping away borders, then spasibo clinging to pointy volcanoes, to fire and freezing cold, or danke, yes! and gracias, and the world turns into a table: a single word has wiped it clean, plates and glasses gleam, silverware tinkles, and the tablecloth is as broad as a plain. Thank you, thanks, for going out and returning, for rising up and settling down. We know, thanks, that you don’t fill every space- you’re only a word- but where your little petal appears the daggers of pride take cover, and there’s a penny’s worth of smiles.

Free verse: poem that freely be verse, not follow to any pattern.

Ex: However you look at it I can't 

Deny myself the torture
And run the risk that maybe
This is the time it won't hurt.
With the door closed or open I
Can still hear the laughter,
Catch the voice
I'd give anything to hear
In my ear--
Whetstones, whether to cut
Rope or flesh the knife and I
Cannot decide.
And I close my eyes like a melodramatist
Hoping someone pulls the curtain
And bang my head against the wall.
It will not go away.
And he will not leave unless
I want him to stay.

Sonnet: shake spear is the most well known for this type of poem. POem that have 14 lines and express thought or feeling.

Ex: 

I stroll along a fragrant country lane With honeysuckle perfume on the air – And feathered crooner’s warble to revere – Then cross a golden sea of flowing grain In empathy – it seems to sense my pain Of knowing all was done with my affair – Her empty meaning now the solitaire She cast away – betrothment all in vain. But oceans team with many fish to catch So I must up and hoist another sail And seek the one that really waits for me, For soon auspicious breezes will prevail In guiding forth to find a truer match: The one to take my hand as wife to be. Sign: it very important for you to know about all style of poem. So you can define and know what kind of poem is that when you read a poem. As you can do that you must know the different between them.

Alliteration

Def: The same consonant that repeat in the beginning of the lines.

Ex: Handsome Harry hired hundreds of hippos for Hanukkah.

Sign: Assonance and Alliteration is almost the same, just different about the consonant, vowels and ending and beginning.

Assonance

Def: pattern of vowel that repeat in the end of lines.

Ex: The bows glided down, and the coast
Blackened with birds took a last look
At his thrashing hair and whale-blue eye
The trodden town rang its cobbles for luck.

Sign: Alliteration and assonance is almost the same but different in the beginning and the ending.

Lines

Def: it is what separate the lines in between.

Ex:
I am absolute;
'Twas very Cloten.


There's a line separates in between the sentence.


Sig: lines divide up ideas and makes them easier and clearer to understand.

Meter

Def: repetition of stressed and unstressed syllables


Ex: hat time | of year | thou mayst | in me | behold


Sig: meter makes the poem sounds better when read aloud and sometimes makes the poem meaningful to the readers. 

Elegy

Def: a type of poem to grief somebody

Ex:
poets of centuries,
their words ever so
-eloquent
whisper their lives
which
Result in catastrophe
but preserve them forever
-in elegy 


Sig: elegy is use for honoring the people who had died. it shows deep sorrow of the poet.

Onomatopoeia

Def: a word that represent a sound:

Ex: Water = splash
       wood break = crack
       bee = buzz

Sign: this will make the reader sense better the sound of your poem.

Symbol

Def: an picture that stand for word.

Ex: Dove = peace
       Heart = love

Sign: It help reader know more about what you're trying to say.

Couplet

Def: pair of lines in of meter.

Ex: Love is

being happy for the other person
when they are happy
being sad for the person
when they are sad
being together in good times
and being together in bad times
Love is the source of strength

Love is
being honest with yourself at all times
being honest with the other person at all times
telling, listening, respecting the truth
and never pretending
Love is the source of reality

Sign: Couple sometimes make the reader confuse by it rhyme scheme.

Personalfication

Def: When the poet give a human characteristic to an object:

Ex: This computer is nut.

Sign: This figured of speech make the reader interested and make the action clearer.

Speaker

Def: the person who read out loud the poem to the other. It's not always the poet who read the poem.

Ex: I have read out loud Whitman poem to the whole class.

Sign: Speaker can spread the poet's poem to the whole other audience.

Tone

Def: mood of the poem

Ex:      Green frog,

• Is your body also
• freshly painted?

• Sick and feverish
• Glimpse of cherry blossoms
• Still shivering.
• This tone is Curious.

Sign: Mood of the poem make the poet to express his mood to his reader easier.

Extended metaphor

Def: it's a compared between 2 unlike things but extend in whole poem or stanza.

Ex: John is like a bomb/He is waiting to explode./The bomb is full of anger;/he has a short fuse./He may go off at any time.


Sign: This poetry device help the reader image the picture better. 

Stanza

Def: Stanza is make up of 2 or more lines in a poem. It have rhyme or rhythm in common.

Ex: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman

Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.

Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me. 

Sign: stanza is separate by lines. Some stanza use to said one small topic in a whole large idea that the poet want send his/her reader.

Rhythm

Def: rhythm is the word came from greek mean measure motion.

Ex: This is the | forest pri | meval, the | murmuring | pine and the | hemlock

Sign: Rhythm make the poem more musical and the reader will enjoy reading it.

Rhyme

Def: the repetition of sound after a word in two or more line.

Ex:       I miss you in the morning; /I miss you late at night./Just to think about you

Is my joy and my delight./I can't wait to see you;Please hurry and come back./
You always make me happy;/You have that special knack!

Sign: Rhyme is the best part in poetry, it make reader read smoother and find that rhyme is cool.

Interpretation

Def : the understanding of something.

Ex : Charlie Gordon thinks a blob of ink is somewhat an octopus.

Sign : Helps the readers to understand the message the poet is giving throughout the poem.

Simile

Def : compared 2 things using as, like or than.

Ex : His voice is louder than an airplane.

Sign : This way of writing help the reader easier to image the picture of the story.

Metaphor

Def : writing compared two things that is similar in something.

Ex : His student is like a puppet in a string.

Significance : we can simpered 2 thing so that the reader understand more about what we write about.

Imagery

Def : image or picture.

Example : This imagery remind me of when I was young.

Significance: imagery is all around us, each remind us of something has past.

Poetry

Definition: an art of literal writing or spoken which rhymes. Poetry helps express ideas or provoke imagery of one’s mind.

Example:

Learning out and learning in

both from now and here begin.
Going back to change the clock
yesterday’s secrets will not unlock.
Writing plans on your diary’s page
makes nothing happen (except old age) .

Singing old songs, 
reciting old parts, 
rights no wrongs, 
breeds more false starts. 


Significance: Poetry is the same as other types of art which is written or spoken in language arts. Poetry should be appreciated and studied about just like the other. Poetry is written for entertainment. A poem could be sang into a ballad which is kind of another level of poetry.