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The document provides an overview of poetry as a literary form. It discusses how Emily Dickinson used her poems to share intimate thoughts and observations with readers. Poetry is defined as a concentrated form of language that expresses ideas and emotions more intensely. Key elements of poetry mentioned include sense, sound, and structure. Sense incorporates the meanings of words, images, and figures of speech. Sound includes devices like rhyme, rhythm, and meter. Structure refers to the arrangement of words, lines, and organization of the poem. The document also lists several definitions of poetry provided by different poets and writers.

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Lesson 3

The document provides an overview of poetry as a literary form. It discusses how Emily Dickinson used her poems to share intimate thoughts and observations with readers. Poetry is defined as a concentrated form of language that expresses ideas and emotions more intensely. Key elements of poetry mentioned include sense, sound, and structure. Sense incorporates the meanings of words, images, and figures of speech. Sound includes devices like rhyme, rhythm, and meter. Structure refers to the arrangement of words, lines, and organization of the poem. The document also lists several definitions of poetry provided by different poets and writers.

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Lesson 3- Poetry

Emily Dickinson, an American poet, once wrote:

This is my letter to the world,


That never wrote to me,-

She wrote many letters to the world- her poems. Through these poems, she chose to share
with her many readers her intimate thoughts and feelings and her day-to-day observations.

To start with, among the oldest literatures were in the form of songs, chants and prayers.
Poetry is derived from the Greek word “poesis” meaning “making or creating”. Poetry is a
kind of language that says it more intensely than ordinary language does. Apparently, we
have to remember the following things about poetry:

 Poetry is a concentrated thought.


 Poetry is a kind of word-music.
 Poetry answers our demands for music.
 Poetry is observation plus imagination.
 Poetry is as varied as the nature of man- unique in some sense along with man‟s
eccentricities yet clings if appreciated or if deeply imbibed by the reader.

Some of the best definitions of poetry:

 Gemino Abad contends that “A poem is a meaningful organization of words.”


 T.S. Eliot categorized poetry as “The fusion of two poles of mind, emotion and
thought.”
 Manuel Viray states that “Poetry is the union of thoughts and feelings.”
 William Wadsworth says, “Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
recorded in tranquility.”
 Edgar Allan Poe thinks, “It is the rhythmic creation of beauty.”
 Percy B. Shelly thinks, “It is the record of the best and happiest moments of the
happiest and best minds.”
 Jaime G. Ang posits, “Poetry is the „essence‟ of the creative imagination of man.”

A poet is someone who sees something extraordinary even in the most common things and
who shares this perception with the reader. The poet may employ rhyme or rhythm or
choose to write in free verse. Her poem may tell a story (narrative) or express a feeling
(lyric).

Elements of Poetry

1. Sense- is revealed through the meaning of words, images and symbols.


a. Diction- denotative and connotative meanings/symbols.

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b. Images and sense impression-sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, motion, and
emotion.
c. Figure of speech- simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, metonymy, etc.
2. Sound- is the result of combination of elements.
a. Tone color- alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme, repetition, anaphora.
b. Rhythm- ordered recurrent alteration of strong and weak elements in the flow of
the sound and silence: duple, triple, running or common rhyme.
c. Meter- stress, duration or number of syllables per line, fixed metrical pattern or a
verse form.
d. Rhyme scheme- formal arrangement of rhymes In stanza or the whole poem.
3. Structure- refers to arrangement of words, and lines to fit together and the
organization of parts to form a whole.
a. Word order- natural and natural arrangement of words.
b. Ellipsis- omitting some words for economy and effect.
c. Punctuation- abundance and lack of punctuation marks.
d. Shape- contextual and visual designs: jumps, omission of spaces, capitalization,
lower case.

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