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21st Literature

This document provides an overview of different forms of poetry including narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. It defines poetry as using language in an aesthetic and rhythmic way. Elements of poetry include the speaker, content, theme, shape/form, mood/tone, and imagery. Narrative poetry tells a story through verse while lyric poetry focuses on private emotions and vision. Dramatic poetry features characters speaking to each other. Specific poetic forms like sonnets, odes, and epics are also outlined.

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21st Literature

This document provides an overview of different forms of poetry including narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry. It defines poetry as using language in an aesthetic and rhythmic way. Elements of poetry include the speaker, content, theme, shape/form, mood/tone, and imagery. Narrative poetry tells a story through verse while lyric poetry focuses on private emotions and vision. Dramatic poetry features characters speaking to each other. Specific poetic forms like sonnets, odes, and epics are also outlined.

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Poetry

• derived from the Greek poiesis meaning


"making"

• uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities of


language
Elements of Poetry
• Speaker
• Content
• Theme
• Shape and Form
• Mood or Tone
• Imagery
• Diction
Types of Poetry
Narrative Poetry Lyric Poetry Dramatic Poetry

• Epic • Ode • Dramatic


• Matrical Tale • Elegy Monologue
• Metrical romance • Sonnet
• Ballad • Song
Narrative Poetry
• form of poem which tells a series of events
using poetic devices such as rhythym,
rhyme, compact language, and attention to
sound
Narrative Poetry
• Epic
– recounting the adventures of a warrior, king, or god

• Matrical Tale
– simple and straightforward story in verse

• Metrical Romance
– quest undertaken by a knight in order to gain a lady's favor

– stresses the chivalric ideals of love, courage, loyalty, honor,


mercifulness to an opponent, and exquisite and manners

• Ballad
– meant to be sung in ballad stanza

– originally trasmitted orally

– usually a four line stanza, alternating tetrameter and trimeter


Lyric Poetry
• generally considered the most intense genre of poetry
• the form that honors its musical origin
• from the Greek word lyre - a stringed instrument and
suitable for the accompaniment of solitary singer
• private, often visionary act on intelligence and
emotion
Lyric Poetry
• Ode
– praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating and event, or describing nature
intellectually rather than emotionally

• Elegy
– mourning or sorrow for death

– stemmed out of the Greek word known as elegus

• Song
– set to music

– have strong beat created largely through the 3Rs: Rhythym, Rhyme, and Repetition

• Sonnet
– short poem with fourteen lines

– originally a love poem


Sonnet
Petrarchan Spenserian Shakespeare

- two stanzas - Edmund Spenser - William Shakespeare


- octave and sestet - 3 quatrains and heroic - 3 quatrains & heroic
- Rhyme Scheme: couplet in iambic couplet in iambic
abbaabba pentameter pentameter
cdecde/cdcdcd - Rhyme Scheme: - Rhyme Scheme:
ababbcbccdcdee ababcdcdefefgg
Dramatic Poetry

• presents one or more characters speaking usually to


other characters, but sometimes to themselves or to
reader
Dramatic Monologue
• when a character reveals the innermost
thoughts and feelings
• through a poem or speech
Let's Work in a Group!

Write a dramatic monologue about the


following societal issues:
1. Gender Discrimination
2. Early parenthood
3. Drug addiction
4. Bullying

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