UNIT II, LESSON ONE

What Poetry Is
Presented By: SADANG & ROMAN
 POETRY
As literature that evokes a concentrated
imaginative awareness of experience or a
specific emotional response trough language
chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound,
and rhythm.
 Essential Elements
Theme
The theme is the central idea of a literary
work, often referred to as the message or
the meaning that provides pro-found
insight about an aspect of humanity. This
definition is also applicable in poetry.
Tone
However, sometimes a singular poem
The general attitude or behavior of a literary
could have more than one theme.
piece, and it is indeed related to mood in
poetry.
Tone refers to how the writer communicates
the feeling he or she has about the poem’s
subject matter through imagery and sensory
details.
 Essential Elements
Point of View Stanza Line
A group of lines of verse A sequence of words
Mood
This generally referred to forming one of the printed as a separate
The feeling of the reader as point of view wherein divisions of a poem or entity on the page. Even if
about the poems, often as readers hear the voice of song. poets work on shorter
a result of the tone that was a certain person as he or It is usually made up of four
forms compared to prose
set up by the writer. A she generally looks at the or more lines and often
writers, they put in much
reader’s basic reactions world, and this world is has a regular pattern in the
number of lines and the
detail and extra care when
and feelings about the presented through the
arrangement of meter and creating poetic lines.
poem. persona’s eyes.
rhyme.
 Essential Elements
Symbolism
Rhyme Rhythm The art or practice of using
The sound at the ends of A regular pattern of symbols especially by investing
things with a symbolic meaning
lines sound alike but it sound, time interval, or or by expressing the invisible or
does not necessarily events occurring in intangible by means of visible
mean that the rhyming poetry. The finger or sensuous representations.
sounds are also spelled In short, poets use a lot of
tapping is a simple
alike. It is the sound that symbols to represent an
rhythm example. abstract concept using a
matters in poetry.
concrete word.
Writing Poetry
Different types of poems may also have
their own perspectives writing rules. For
the purpose of a general approach in
creative writing, This will focus on four
categories that could help beginning
poets to unleash literary potential: form,
measurement, sound, and verse. These
also encompass the concept of poetic
techniques.
 Form
The pattern or construction of a work of literary pieces that
is identifiable and distinguishable from one another.
DESCRIPTIVE POETRY.
Poetry can generally be grouped into these common forms: If a poem is concerned with portraying descriptions of the outside
world that surrounds the poem’s persona, that is considered as
descriptive poetry. It could also be emotionally laden like lyric
LYRIC POETRY.
poetry.
Poems that have one speaker or persona expressing very strong
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feelings and thoughts belong to this group. Descriptive poetry is more concerned with portraying imagery that
Very melodic because during ancient time, it was meant to be read is focused outside of the poet (about the surroundings).
aloud with musical accompaniment (music played with a lyre).
Lyric poetry more concerned with expressing inner thoughts,
self-reflections, and introspections.
DRAMATIC POETRY.
NARRATIVE POETRY. It is the kind of poetry that has elements of drama (usually associated
with a play) such as dialogue and conflict.
This poetry form also narrates a story with a clear plot but Early Greek dramatists like Euripides and Sophocles wrote certain stage
written in verse. Narrative poems could be very short or very plays in verse form.
long. A good example the epic poetry of Beowulf. Dramatic poetry is the dramatic monologue, often spoken by one
Narrative poetry follows a more formal structure of rhyme and character in the form of a speech expressing the character’s inner
meter. thoughts.
 Measurement SYLLABLE
A single unit of sound in a word so the emphasize is
Measurement were created as gudelines
more on the sound it produces rather than how many
in creating poems.
letters are in it, or how long is the word that carries
it/them. Plus, there are specific types of poetry that
REPETITION focus on limiting the syllables.
The main ingredient of certain poems in which sounds, words,
phrases, and lines are repeated to give a poem its structure
and rhythm. These varying functions of repetition often make
the poem sound lyrical or playful, emotional, or remorseful, or
upbeat, and hopeful, depending on poet’s intention and also
depending on the poet’s intended tone for the poem. METER
The rhythmic structure of the verse which pertains to basically how
a syllable is stressed or unstressed.
Stress syllable is the one that makes a long vowel sound and is
considered as a strong or loud syllable marked with (/).
Unstressed syllable is the one that makes a short vowel sound and
is considered as the weaker or the quieter syllable, marked with ( U)
or(X)
 For instance, in a given stanza, each rhyme will be
represented by one letter, often starting with “A”
Rhyme Scheme and the next rhyme will be “B” then “C” , if there
is a new rhyme, and so on. To analyze the rhyme
The pattern established by the arrangement of scheme of “To the Virgin, to Make Much of Time,”
rhymes in a stanza or poem which is generally it would look like these:
described using letters of the alphabet to denote the Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, a
Old Time is still a-flying; b
recurrence of rhyming lines. It may not be as precise And this same flower that smiles today a
or mathematical as the meter, but it could still be Tomorrow will be dying b
categorized as a kind of measurement since it gives
Since “may” and “today” rhyme, they are the “A”
guidelines for poetic form. rhyme. “Flying” and “dying” are the “B” rhyme. Thus,
its rhyme scheme is: ABAB.
 Verse
Line Break and Enjambment
There are words or phrases that seem to jump out of
the page, and then there are also lines that seem to go
on forever.
When reading the line, readers are disrupted or
disturbed because some lines did not allow a thought or
imagery to be “finished” in one line. That is totally fine,
because this is what poets call the line break.
For more modern poets though, line breaks happen
when they want to make it happen, depending on the
thought they want to relay,
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