 |
| EMO LOVE |
NARRATIVE
Definition:
A poem that tells a story and has a plot. Narrative poems include epics, ballads, idylls and lays
Example:
There was three kings into the east,
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.
BALLADS
Definition:
Are poems that tells a story similar to a folk tale or legend and often has a repeated refrain. A ballad is often about love and often sung.
Example:
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.
EPIC
Definition:
A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Example:
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.
LYRIC
Definition:
Consists of a poem, such as a sonnet or an ode, that expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet.
Example:
I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.
SONNETS
Definition:
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into two quatrains and a six-line sestet.
Example:
O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power
Dost hold Time's fickle glass his fickle hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.
Dost hold Time's fickle glass his fickle hour;
Who hast by waning grown, and therein show'st
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow'st.
ODES
Definition:
Are long poems which are serious in nature and written to a set structure
Example:
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
ELEGIES
Definition:
Is a sad and thoughtful poem lamenting the death of a person
Example:
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
FREE VERSE
Definition:
Is a form of Poetry composed of either rhymed or unrhymed lines that have no set fixed metrical pattern.
Example:
I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loaf and invite my soul,
I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
SIGNIFICANE:
Because not every poem have the same structure, pattern or rhythm. If there only one type of poetry it will make the poem sound the same and make the reader boring. It will be better to have many type of poetry for the reader to able to have more choices and choose the one they like.
