Literary
Terms
Poetry
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.
―
William Wordsworth (Lyrical Ballads)
Poetry is a type of literature that conveys a thought, describes a scene or tells a story in a concentrated, lyrical arrangement of words. Poems can be structured, with rhyming lines and meter, the rhythm and emphasis of a line based on syllabic
beats. Poems can also be freeform, which follows no formal structure. Poetry
gives powerful insight into the cultures that create it. The basic building
block of a poem is a stanza. A stanza is a group of lines related to the same
thought or topic, similar to a paragraph in prose. A stanza can be subdivided based
on the number of lines it contains.
The
Greek poet Homer wrote in a style called epic poetry, which deals with gods,
heroes, monsters, and other large-scale “epic” themes. Homer’s long poems tell
stories of Greek heroes like Achilles and Odysseus, and have inspired countless
generations of poets, novelists, and philosophers alike. Poetry is probably the
oldest form of literature, and probably predates the origin of writing itself.
Poetry
can be written with all the same purposes as any other kind of literature –
beauty, humor, storytelling, political messages, etc.
Types of Poetic Forms:
1.
Blank verse
2.
Rhymed poetry
3.
Free verse
4.
Epics
5.
Narrative poetry
6.
Haiku
7.
Pastoral poetry
8.
Sonnet
9.
Elegies
10.
Ode
11.
Limerick
12.
Lyric poetry
13.
Ballad
14.
Soliloquy
15. Villanelle.
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