This document discusses the key aspects and forms of poetry. It examines poetry's nature as a creative art used to communicate meaning and emotions. Poetry has certain structures, including lines and stanzas, and uses language and figurative devices to implicitly express ideas. Different poetic forms include dramatic poetry using dialogue, lyric poetry for personal feelings, and narrative poetry which tells stories through genres like epics, ballads and tales. The document also outlines essential composites of poetry including sense, sound, and structured organization.
This document discusses the key aspects and forms of poetry. It examines poetry's nature as a creative art used to communicate meaning and emotions. Poetry has certain structures, including lines and stanzas, and uses language and figurative devices to implicitly express ideas. Different poetic forms include dramatic poetry using dialogue, lyric poetry for personal feelings, and narrative poetry which tells stories through genres like epics, ballads and tales. The document also outlines essential composites of poetry including sense, sound, and structured organization.
This document discusses the key aspects and forms of poetry. It examines poetry's nature as a creative art used to communicate meaning and emotions. Poetry has certain structures, including lines and stanzas, and uses language and figurative devices to implicitly express ideas. Different poetic forms include dramatic poetry using dialogue, lyric poetry for personal feelings, and narrative poetry which tells stories through genres like epics, ballads and tales. The document also outlines essential composites of poetry including sense, sound, and structured organization.
This document discusses the key aspects and forms of poetry. It examines poetry's nature as a creative art used to communicate meaning and emotions. Poetry has certain structures, including lines and stanzas, and uses language and figurative devices to implicitly express ideas. Different poetic forms include dramatic poetry using dialogue, lyric poetry for personal feelings, and narrative poetry which tells stories through genres like epics, ballads and tales. The document also outlines essential composites of poetry including sense, sound, and structured organization.
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Poetry Poetry: Nature, Structure, and Forms Examine the picture. It is known to many that poetry is dangerous weapon but how can you link the missile or the bomb to poetry? What does the picture say about poetry? Poetry is indeed one form of literature which is known for its high aesthetic and emotional appeal. Just like any other forms of arts, a poem has it own qualities that mainly represent the writer’s style, perspective and disposition. Thus, similar to visual arts, the total beauty of a poetic work is a result of the writer’s deliberate use of a variety of elements to create a certain affects. In this lesson, it is mainly important to be familiar with the nature, structure, ands forms of poetry which may lead to a better understanding and appreciation of it. The Greek term “ poesis ” which means “to create” or “to make” is said to be derivation of the word poetry. Mainly, this is an art of communicating meanings, emotions, and values which leave an affect or impact on its readers. It evokes emotional, aspiration, conditions despite its shortness. This can be delivered in both spoken and written forms. Key Aspects of Poetry
a. Structure Most poetic works utilize few words and these are mainly arranged in lines and in stanzas. However, the structure may have some different feature depending on the style established by a writer. For example, a haiku, a ballad , and a sonnet have peculiar structures. Key Aspects of Poetry b. Language The writer of a poetic work mainly expresses familiar feelings, emotions, conditions and the like in an implicit and suggestive way. Thus, the words as they are used in certain expressions may bear numerous meanings and interpretations. The writer may use a variety of figurative expression to beautify and heighten the effect of a poetic work. Key Aspects of Poetry
c. Tone, Sound, Rhythm
Poem writing is mostly similar to song- writing. Various elements that may contribute to the total effect and impact of a poetic masterpiece should be in unity and harmony. In most cases, poets are careful of using various rhyming patterns and even sound devices. Key Aspects of Poetry d. Emotional Appeal Poems mainly convey meanings in a mysterious way. Thus words, ideas or construct used by the writer may bear certain meanings which go beyond the literal or ordinary sense. A reader must have the ability to deduce and to interpret certain ideas that may lead to the better understanding of what the poem reveals. Thus, a poem is composed of few words but it may bear a volume of meanings depending on its readers. Essential Composites of Poetry
a. Sense This element involves diction or known as the word choice, imagery that can truly appeal to the senses, and lastly, figurative expressions. Thus, sense can be best established by the meanings of words, symbolisms, and images used by the writer. Essential Composites of Poetry
b. Sound This elements is an offshoot of a variety of elements like tonal pattern, rhythm, and measurements. Sound devices, rhyming schemes and repetition are mainly utilized to create an effect and a strong appeal. Essential Composites of Poetry
c. Structure This element pertains to the way how words and lines are organized, sequenced, arranged and formed to ensure unity of form. Thus, this also involves the careful and mindful combination of different parts, establishing harmony among these to form a whole. This also helps to reveal the meaning of a poem. Different Poetic Forms
a. Dramatic poetry This is a lyric work that exhibits dialogue and characterizations which are known to be elements of drama. A monologue which is specifically a speech delivered by an individual in dramatic performance and another is the soliloquy which is a monologue used to develop the character of a speaker by providing information by the revelation of the character’s personal thoughts , emotions and feelings both belong to this type. Different Poetic Forms b. Lyric Poetry This mainly discloses a poet’s feelings and emotions which can be perceived to be subjective and personal. This is known to be melodic since it was first recited accompanied by a lyre-a U-shaped string instrument. Lyric poetry covers the following:
Simple lyric which includes pastorals that describe
scenes and objects of nature. Song which are emotional verses sung during special occasions, Odes which are extended lyric poems ascribed to be more serious and complex in form than a simple lyric, Sonnet which are commonly composed of 14 lines, and lastly, an Elegy which mainly laments the death of a person or group of individual. Different Poetic Forms
c. Narrative Poetry This is mainly a poem that is non- dramatic in which the prime goal of the author is to narrate a story. It has a variety of length and complexity, Examples of narrative poems are epics, metrical tales and romance, and ballads. Thank You For Listening!
