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Elements of Poetry

Poetry is a complex literary form characterized by its rhythmic and imaginative expression of ideas, often utilizing elements such as denotation, connotation, imagery, and figurative language. Various devices like allusion, antithesis, hyperbole, and metaphor are employed to convey deeper meanings and emotions. The document provides definitions and examples of these poetic elements, illustrating their significance in enhancing the reader's experience.

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Elements of Poetry

Poetry is a complex literary form characterized by its rhythmic and imaginative expression of ideas, often utilizing elements such as denotation, connotation, imagery, and figurative language. Various devices like allusion, antithesis, hyperbole, and metaphor are employed to convey deeper meanings and emotions. The document provides definitions and examples of these poetic elements, illustrating their significance in enhancing the reader's experience.

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• Poetry is a patterned form of verbal or written

expression of ideas in concentrated, imaginative, and


rhythmical terms that often contain the elements of
sense, sound, and structure.

• It is considered as the oldest literary form.

• It has implied meaning/s which is/are evoked in the


carefully selected words.

• It is considered as the most difficult and most


sophisticated of all literary genres.
Sense of the Poem:

▪ Denotation vs. Connotation


▪ Imagery
▪ Figurative Language
Elements of Poetry
❖A sense of the Poem:
❖Denotation is the dictionary meaning of the
word, while Connotation is the suggested or
implied meaning/s associated with the word.

Examples of denotation and connotation:


❖White dove
Denotative meaning: A Connotative meaning: A
stocky seed or fruit-eating symbol of innocence and
bird with a small head, short purity. An emblem of peace
legs and a cooing voice. and harmony.
Elements of Poetry
❖A sense of the Poem:
❖Imagery is the use of sensory details or
descriptions that appeal to one or more the
five senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and
smell. These are otherwise known as the
“sense of the mind.”
Examples of Imagery:
❖The rotting smell of the putrid bodies left a
bitter taste and made my skin crawl.
What senses were So, now you understand
stimulated in this sentence?. how imagery works!
Elements of Poetry
❖ A sense of the Poem:
❖ Figurative Language: Is a language used for
descriptive effect in order to convey ideas or
emotions which are not literally true but express
some truth beyond the literal level.

❖ I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse!

How does the structure of


What is the message of this the sentence hint you into
sentence? making the correct
interpretation?
Figurative Speech
These are specific devices
or a kind of figurative
language that uses words,
phrases, and sentences in a
non-literal definition but
rather gives meanings in
abstractions.
Allusion
Is trying to reference or make a reference in a work of literature to a
character, a place , or a situation from history, literature, the Bible,
mythology, scientific events, characters , or place.

I imagine myself thus,


my fearless navigator, as you scribe:
Antonio Pigafetta annotating
the progress of our journey inside
the Trinidad, the sturdy galleon
of our newfangled love.
--Ralph Semino Galan
Antithesis
It is a disparity of words and ideas

It is virtually a sea but dry like a heart.


That has forgotten compassion.

Mike Maniquiz, “Lahar On My Mind”


Apostrophe
Is an address to an inanimate object, an
idea, or a person who is absent/ long dead.

For what were you before the birth of the daystar,


O my
Soul where were you in that deep and darkest
night?

-Leonides Benasa,
“Fragments: The Desert God”
Hyperbole
Is an exaggeration used to express strong
emotion, to make a point, or to invoke
humor.

“This heat”, I mutter


“melts the very bones.”

-Merlie M. Alunan, “Young Man in a Jeepney”.


Irony
Is a contrast or discrepancy between
appearance and reality.

Neither is man aware of the unkind


flight of time; for though it gives him life,
it is dragging him nearer his grave.

-Juan De Atayde, “The Man”


Litotes
Is a deliberate sarcasm used to affirm by
negating its opposite.

Even in his plain dress,


I find him not at all displeasing.

-Anonymous
Metaphor
Implies comparison instead of direct
statement and equates two seemingly
unlike things or ideas.

Forgive these words that love impart,


And pleading, bare the poet’s breast;
And if a rose with thorns thou art,
Yet on my breast that rose may rest.

-Fernando Maramag, “Rural Maid”


Metonymy
Is the use of one word to stand for a related
term or replacement of words that relates
to the thing or the person to be named for
the name itself.

To say that the crown would have an heir


Is to assume a new life, a new beginning.

(The crown substitutes for the word majesty, king, queen, and
the like.)
Onomatopoeia
Is the use of a word/phrase that actually
imitates or suggests the sound of what it
describes.

And early evening, like croaking


of frogs, evoking memories lost.

-Ralph Semino Galan, “Cartanella”


Oxymoron
Is putting two opposite ideas in one
statement.

It is futile to ask for guidance or direction


in this unmappable landscape, the history
and scene of our unending sacrifice.

-Francis M. Santos, “Strum and Drug”


Paradox
Is a phrase or statement that seems to be
impossible or contradictory but is
nevertheless true , literally, or figuratively.

The shows
The absolutely necessity
Of what has “no use.”

-Chuang Tzu, “The Useless”


Personification
Is giving human attributes/characteristics to
inanimate objects, an animal, a force of
nature or an idea.

Sunflowers pushed
Out of the shadows
Betrayed into tracking
The sun.
-Ramon T. Torrevillas, “Assylum Flowers”
Simile
Uses a word or phrase such as “like” or “as”
to compare seemingly unlike things, or
ideas.

His lips are as soft as rose petals


Softly dry my tear-drenched face
Melting the cold spell I cast upon myself.

Judi Anro Dizon, “The One I Love”


Synecdoche
Is the naming of parts to suggest a whole.

E.g.

Respect is due for snowy hair


Life they lived is beyond compare
(snowy hair pertains to elderly people)

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