Type of Poetry: Narrative

Definition: A type of poems that tell a story.
Example:   typhoons are not that strong
sometimes
they behave like
critics, passing by an
island, saying, hey you
are not an island after
all, you are just a hill
fit for a Bollywood
scene

I am in that island
feeling some itch
of its breeze, but i was too
busy then
climbing one
of the narrative trees
there

and he asks
is there such a thing
as a narrative tree?
i crack the nut
and drink the clouds
there
and he is filled with
so much
awe,
he gets itchy
and scratches
all the skins
and even the bones
he rattles like
a snake
and wants to bite

the narrative tree
has everything
to offer
gentle, and soft
and conversational

but he wants to deny
this kind of tree
saying
there is no such
thing as that
and this

oh my, what a man
he is
structured in his cage
not knowing
that he is meant to
be free
from the shackles of
his verse
from the narrow alleys
of his
rhyme

goodness, we do not
even try
grafting the metaphors

i love it here
this island where i touch
him not
but he touches me
i guess
that is envy.
Significance: This type of poem that can tell a story but take less times.

Lines

Definition: A number of words that line up in a poem.
Example: 
I am fast and fun.
I can dream, dreams that nobody has dreamt before.
I would go on adventures all over the world.
I want to write out my imagination.
I enjoy seeing peace.
I am fast and fun.
I want to fly and taste the air.
I am not afraid to say what I want.
I feel such smooth things that touch my fingers.
I find such pretty things in nature.
I am fast and fun.
I want to be a soccer star.
I think hard about things.
I wonder where we go when we fade.
I feel so great when I help someone.

Significance: Lines can help separate some ideas from the poem. If there different lines and ideas, it could be helpful for the audience to understand which ideas is on which line

Symbol

Definition: A sign that helps audience understand.
Example:
O Rose, thou art sick.
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy. BTW i dont know much about computers.

At first this poem appears to be about a rose and an aphid or a caterpillar, but even a non-gardener knows that aphids are not invisible. Once the worm is seen as an abstraction, the rose is too, and it can be interpreted according to conventional associations such as love, faith, hope, tender emotions, youthful optimism; the list can extend as far as the reader's imagination and ingenuity can take it.
An owl symbolises wisdom
The phoenix symbolises rebirth
The dove symbolises peace

Fire represents anger or safety

Significance: It's help audience understand more when looking at the symbols.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named
Examples: Crack an egg.
Stir the butter.
Break the yolk.
Make it flutter.
Stoke the heat.
Hear it sizzle.
Shake the salt,
just a drizzle.
Flip it over,
just like that.
Press it down.
Squeeze it flat.
Pop the toast.
Spread jam thin.
Say the word.
Breakfast's in .


Significance: It's help audience feel the poem inside of the audience.

Assonance

Definition: In poetry, the repetition of the sound of a vowel or diphthong in non-rhyming stressed syllables
Examples:

The Bells
by
Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight! 

 Significance: The important is to mess with words and have fun with it.

Alliteration

Definition: The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words
Example: Dewdrops Dancing Down Daisies
By Paul Mc Cann

Don't delay dawns disarming display .
Dusk demands daylight .
Dewdrops dwell delicately
drawing dazzling delight .
Dewdrops dilute daisies domain.
Distinguished debutantes . Diamonds defray delivered
daylights distilled daisy dance.
  Significance: It's funny when it's twist your tongue when you're doing it.

Meter

Definition: The pattern of rhythm; the pattern of the stressed and unstressed syllables.
Example:

^

/ ^

/

^

/ ^

/

^ / ^

/

^

/

The

falling

out

of

faithful

friends,

renewing

is

of

love.

Significance: Meter can help you say the word probably in the poem.

Couplet

Definition: A pair of lines that rhymes and have the same meter.
Example:   Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never write, nor no man ever loved.

 Significance: It's easier to read when there are couplets happening.

Rhyme

Definition: The last words end with a sound that corresponds to another.

Examples: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!

 Significance: Rhyme makes reading poem fun for everyone.

Rhythm

Definition: A strong, regular, repeated pattern of movement or sound.
Example:

Hiawatha's Departure
from The Song of Hiawatha
by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited. 

 Significance: It's can make the poem smoother and more cooler to read the poem.

Personification

Example: The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!

Definition: Use action to describe/ explain an object or animal.
Significance: It could be more interesting like action speak more than words.

Speaker

Definition: The Character that speak in the Poem
Example:A speaker needs to know where to pause when reading a poem with punctuations Significance: It's important that the speaker have to read with emotions, knows the character and where to pause.

Interpretation

Definition: an explanation of the meaning of another artistic or creative work.
Example: Now for the long years when I could not love you,
I bring in recompense this gift of yearning-
A luminous vase uplifted to the sun,
Blue with the shadows of near-twilight.
Here in its full round symmetry of darkness,
Burning with swift curved flashes bright as tears,
I lift it to the lonely lips that knew
Its slow creation, and thw wheel of sorrow turning.
Take it with hands like faded petals,
White as the moonlight of our garden;
And for the long years when I could not love you
Drink from its amber-coloured night.

Significance: Interpretation is an essential skill when you study about poetry and poems. When you read a poem, you don't just simply read it, you need to understand it as well.

Lyric

Lyric

Definition: A Poem that express feelings and thoughts of the poets.
Example:

Dying
(aka I heard a fly buzz when I died )
by
Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

Significance: To Express Feelings

 

Sonnet

Sonnet

Definition: Poem that have 14 lines and each line have 10 syllable.
Example:   There are only two possibilities
God the result of imagination
Or God the Lord over all creation
With supernatural abilities

Considering the liabilities
The former, a finite observation
The latter, spirit rejuvenation
With its infinite capabilities

Choosing the former one has to reason
What's wanted is some final solution
An end to it all with no life ahead
I choose the latter for a new season
Trusting in God as my resolution
Gaining promised eternal life instead

Ode

Ode

Definition-  A Poem that a poet saying thank you to something or someone.

Example:

Ode To The Forgotten

Ode to the people who were forgotten They were once loved and cared for Ode to their lives Everyday they hurt While in desperation for love and generosity. Ode to their heart That was torn apart viciously With little consideration Of their inner feelings Ode to their memories That bring back happiness Or to the ones That are very vague. Ode to those who have tried Those who haven't given up The ones that will keep climbing For them life hasn't been easy.         Significance: To Say Thank you to someone.

Elegy

Elegy
Definition- A sad and Sorrow poem talk about a death of a person or something.

Example:

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Significance: To Talk about a death person.

Free Verse

Free Verse
Definition-  A poem that is composed of rhyme or unrhyme lines that have to fixed pattern and write it freely but it have to make sense.

Example-  
My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.
And also I didn't want it to be tomorrow,
Because then it would be time to do what
I've denied for three weeks of subsistence
And oblivion--ignoring is bliss.
And I saw everything I never did
Lying around me, pieces and steps of the
Success I never got, reminders that
Whatever I planned, I never got far.
But in the middle of these broken promises
To myself, I could see for the first time
That I have not been broken.
And I must keep myself, all that is real,
As daybreak does, and nightfall.
I exist to others, but all I need is me.
I will be the last promise, when all is said
And kept.

Significance- To Feel  Free to write a poem.

Epic

Epic
Definition: A long narrative poem that tell about hero and fantasy.
Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited. 

Significance: To Tell a Epic Story

Tone

Definition: The Quality of an audio like music, a voice or a reader.

Example: you speak in a different kind of tone,  like louder or smaller sounds.

Significance: When you're trying to tell a poems to kids like kids from 8-10 years old.  You have to use tone to speak with them, because like the mood of the stories is different you have to use different tone too.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: Some Lines in the Poem uses Metaphor.

Example: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms..

Significance: Extended Metaphor makes the poem more interesting and also help the writer express more of what they are trying to say than metaphor.

Metaphor

Example: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Definition: Compare two things with connected connected words.


Significance: Metaphor can make the reader think what the poem is trying to say, make reader think really hard.

Stanza

Definition: An arrangement of  Number of Words that fixed into a poem.

Example: 
 Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light

By Dylan Thomas.


Significance: To Separate Ideas

Imagery

Definition: The things that happen in your mind that you are reading, like you imagine it in your mind.

Example: Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells.

Significance: Imagery is one of the most important poetry elements ever because when you are reading a poem you have to understand the character and you have to think about it and imagine what does the character look like in the story.

Simile

Simile:

 
Definition: A figure of speech which is used to compare two things with comparing words such as "like", "as" and "more".

Example: "Your Breath smell likes Garlic or Onion."

Significance: Simile can help peoples understand more by comparing this to another.

Poetry Project

+Definition:
-Poetry is a kind of writing like a rap song that words rhyme with each other but Poetry have nicer words and more simple than rapping.

+Example:
-Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

+Significance:
- Poetry help you think more about words and it's help you make people move by saying words. Poetry help Language art is good with words in Language arts.

+Picture: