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Lesson 4 Poetry!

This document provides an overview of poetry as a creative art form. It defines poetry and discusses its key characteristics such as using rhythm, imagery and figurative language. The document also examines various elements of poetry like theme, tone, rhyme and meter. Furthermore, it explores different genres and forms of poetry like sonnets, epics and haiku. The document aims to help readers understand and appreciate poetry through analyzing elements, techniques and examples.

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Lesson 4 Poetry!

This document provides an overview of poetry as a creative art form. It defines poetry and discusses its key characteristics such as using rhythm, imagery and figurative language. The document also examines various elements of poetry like theme, tone, rhyme and meter. Furthermore, it explores different genres and forms of poetry like sonnets, epics and haiku. The document aims to help readers understand and appreciate poetry through analyzing elements, techniques and examples.

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LESSON 4

Sharing Inner Self


Through Poetry

Prepared by: Carmencita B. Daculap


Teacher III-HUMSS Department
MELC: Identify the various elements, techniques, and literary
devices in specific forms of poetry. (HUMMS_CW/MP11/12c-f-6)

Objectives:
1. Define poetry
2. Determine the characteristics, elements, techniques, and
literary devices of poetry
3. Differentiate poetry to other forms of creative writing
4. Familiarize with the different genres and forms of poetry
5. Discuss the types of experimental texts
6. Appreciate the poems of known poets
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POETRY
Poetry is a word composition
arranged in a rhythmic pattern. It
is used to express one’s creative
thoughts and feelings through a
specialized and heightened
language.
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1. CHARACTERISTICS OF POETRY
Poetry has unique characteristics if compared to other forms of creative writing
which include the following:
◈ It expresses creative thoughts in much briefer way than a short story
and novel.
◈ It uses elements such as rhythm, imagery, figurative language, verse
and meter, and poetic devices.
◈ It has a musical quality.
◈ It has structure.
◈ It is used to express intense personal emotions and experiences.
◈ The content of a poem shows the universal truth and connotes a deeper
meaning.
◈ It does not use everyday language. 4
2. ELEMENTS OF POETRY
Poetry is a combination of words in lines, rhyme, tone, voice, language, and emotion
which makes it a creative means to liberate the poet’s thoughts and feelings. While
one can freely write a poem, it is still necessary to know the different elements of
poetry. This is to create a poem that will make a huge impact on the reader.

◈ Theme is the summarized statement containing the main thought or


meaning of the poem.
◈ Tone refers to the attitude and mood of the poem. It is the overall
atmosphere of the poem which influences the emotional response of the
reader.
◈ Rhyme is the link between music and poetry. It adds music quality of
the poem which gives the readers reading pleasure. 5
◈ Line is the line of words in poetry. The verse is the line of a poem
arranged in a metrical pattern. Stanza is referred as the “unit of poetic
lines”. There are different stanza forms.
Forms Number of Lines
Couplet 2
Tercet 3
Quatrain 4
Quintet 5
Sestet 6
Septet 7
Octave 8
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◈ Meter is the poetry’s measured accents and syllables arrangement. It is
the systematic sound pattern of a poem.

Metrical Patterns Characteristics


Accentual Meter Lines have the same number of stresses and
varied count of syllables
Syllabic Meter Lines have the same number of syllables and
varied count of stresses
Accentual-Syllabic Meter Lines have the same number of syllables,
both stressed and non-stressed; arranged in
fixed order
Free verse Lines have irregular number of stresses and
syllables

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◈ Genre is a category or type which is identified by form, content, and
style. The following are the three types of poetry:
Type Characteristics Sample forms
Descriptive Poem Focuses on details didactic poem
Narrative Poem Tells a story epic, ballad
Lyric Poem Expresses the feelings and ode, sonnet, dramatic
thoughts of the poet monologue

◈ Literary Devices should be incorporated in the poem such as imagery,


figures of speech, and diction to make the poem appealing to the
readers.

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3. POETRY FORMS AND THEIR CHARACTERISTICS
Forms Characteristics
Tanaga The Filipino equivalent of a Japanese haiku which consists of 4 lines with
each line equally having between 7 and 9 syllables.
Diona Ang diona ay isang katutubong anyo ng tula na binubuo ng 7 pantig kada
taludtod, 3 taludtod kada saknong at may isahang tugmaan.
Haiku An ancient brief Japanese verse that is composed of 3 lines. The first line
has 5 syllables, second line has 7 and the last line has 5, having a total of
17 syllables.
Epic A narrative poem about a hero.
Limerick A poem consisting of 5 lines wherein lines 1, 2, and 5 and lines 3 and 4 are
rhyming.
Sonnet A poem consisting of 14 lines of iambic pentameter; makes use of rhyme.

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Forms Characteristics
Blank Verse A poem of consistent length and meter but do not employ rhyme.
Free Verse A poem without standard rhyme patterns and line length.

Tanka A tanka is another Japanese form of poetry that follows a syllable format.
This poem is composed of 5 lines. Lines 1 and 3 have 5 syllables. Lines 2,
4, and 5 contain 7 syllables each.
ABC Poem Each line of the poem begins with a letter in the alphabet, starting with A
and moving in order through Z.
Acrostic A form of poetry where the first or last letters of each line create a name,
word, or phrase.
Bio Poem It is used to reveal information to the reader about the poet.
Diamante A diamante poem is a 7-line poem that looks like a diamond. It does not
Poem have to rhyme. It can be used to describe 1 topic or 2 opposite topics.

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4. EXPERIMENTAL TEXTS
◈ Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written
language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. It is also
applied to the style, arrangement, and appearance of the letters,
numbers, and symbols created by the process. Example: Concrete
Poetry or Shape Poetry whose layout implies the subject of the poem.
◈ Genre-crossing Text
Type Characteristics
Prose Poem It is a kind of poetry that is written in paragraphs which contains
language play, images, and with instances of poetic meter.
Performance It is being recited in front of the audience. It uses vernacular
Poetry or language and appealing oral elements like music, recordings, and
Spoken-Word other elements of signification.
Poetry 11
5. APPRECIATION OF POEMS
If I can stop one heart from breaking
Emily Dickinson

What is the tone of the poem? 12


If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”

Excerpt from the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling

What is the message the poem tries to express?


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ACTIVITY
Research a sample of the following
types/forms of poetry. Provide the
references/citations in your output.

1. Tanaga 6. Concrete
2. Haiku 7. Diamante
3. Sonnet 8. Acrostic
4. Limerick 9. Cinquain
5. Epic 10. Prose Poem
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“
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to
dance.
- Carl Sandburg

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THANKS!
REFERENCE:
Buhisan, Arnold Jarn Ford G. & Ayesha H. Sayseng. 2016. Creative Writing.
JFS Publishing Services. Pasay City. Philippines.
Lewis, Tynea. Common Poetic Forms.
https://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/article-poetic-forms

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