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Poeytry 2

This document provides an overview of different types of poetry including narrative, lyric, dramatic, and epic poems. Narrative poems tell stories from a third-person perspective using forms like allegory, ballads, and epics. Lyric poems express personal thoughts and feelings through shorter forms like sonnets, odes, and haiku. Dramatic poems incorporate dialogue and monologue to explore emotional conflict. Epics are long narrative poems that reflect the values of their society, such as The Iliad and Paradise Lost.

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Poeytry 2

This document provides an overview of different types of poetry including narrative, lyric, dramatic, and epic poems. Narrative poems tell stories from a third-person perspective using forms like allegory, ballads, and epics. Lyric poems express personal thoughts and feelings through shorter forms like sonnets, odes, and haiku. Dramatic poems incorporate dialogue and monologue to explore emotional conflict. Epics are long narrative poems that reflect the values of their society, such as The Iliad and Paradise Lost.

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3rd Year

Spring Semester
Types of Poetry:
Narrative

Allegory Ballad Burlesque Epic

Lyric
Elegy Sonnet Ode Haiku

Dramatic
Monologue Soliloquy
Narrative Poem
 A narrative poem tells a story, also known as epic poetry
 Narrative poetry is often set to music as ballads.
 Examples of this category include:
1. Allegory - a narrative poem that uses an extended metaphor to
make a point. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress and Edmund
Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
2. Ballad – a narrative poem designed originally to be sung. (e.g The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
3. Burlesque - a mock-epic poem that tells an ordinary story in a
melodramatic way. E.g/Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock
4. Epic - a lengthy poem that tells a story of heroic adventures

 If the story changes over the course of the poem, it’s a narrative
poem.
 Narrative poems tell a story from the perspective of a third-person
narrator.
Epic
The word “epic” comes from the ancient Greek term “epos,” which means
“story, word, poem.”
A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and
reflecting the values of the society from which it originated.
Many epics are drawn from an oral tradition and were transmitted by song
and recitation before they were written down.
Two of the most famous epics of Western civilization are Homer’s Iliad and
Odyssey.
The great epic of the Middle Ages is the Divine Comedy by the Italian poet
Dante.
The two most famous English epics are the Anglo-Saxon Beowulf and John
Milton’s Paradise Lost
Lyric
 The word lyric comes from the Greek lyre, an instrument used to
accompany the recital or singing of poems
 A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker’s personal
thoughts or feelings.
 The forms of lyric are: Elegy , Ode, Sonnet and Haiku
 Lyric poetry uses song-like and emotional words to describe a
moment, an object, a feeling, or a person.
 Though they can be of any length, lyrics tend to be shorter than
narrative poems, they have a musical quality
 They tend to be more subjective than narrative poems, often
expressing the feelings or thoughts of a speaker.
Lyric Types
I.

Elegy(song of mourning) : a poem mourning the death of
an individual, or of all men. Elegies are defined by their
subject matter, and don't have to follow any specific form
in terms of meter, rhyme, or structure.
Examples: Elegy in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray,
and In Memorian by Alfred Lord Tennyson
II. Haiku : a seventeen-syllable poem that uses natural
imagery to express an emotion.
III. Ode :A serious poem with an elevated, dignified style,
usually of some length. (e.g Ode to Nightingale by John
Keats)
IV. Sonnet - a descriptive fourteen-line poem with a specific
rhyme scheme(examples..?)
Haiku

The west wind whispered, An old silent pond
And touched the eyelids A frog jumps into the
of spring: pond—
Her eyes, Primroses. Splash! Silence again.
Dramatic Poetry
• Sometimes known as Dramatic Verse or Verse drama

• A form of narrative closely related to acting, it is usually performed


physically and can be either spoken or sung.

• Normally, it uses a set rhyming or meter pattern, setting it apart from prose.

• It uses dramatic form in some way (e.g dialogue , monologue..)focusing on


emotional conflict

• In this type of poem the speaker is someone other than the poet.

• Example: The Shadowy Waters by William Butler Yeats

• My Last Duchess by Robert Browning is an example of dramatic


monologue

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