Poetry
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Poetry
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Poetry
Characteristics
Poetry Definitions
Poetry Characteristics
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A style of poetry
defined as a complete
thought written in two
lines.
Couplet
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A song-like poem.
Lyric
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A long narrative
poem in a grand
ceremonious
style.
Epic
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A distinctive poetic
style that uses
system or pattern
metrical structure
and verse
composition.
Sonnet
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A narrative
folk song.
Ballad
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An elaborately formal
lyric poem, often in
the form of a lengthy
ceremonious
address.
Ode
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A type of
literature defined
as a song or
poem, written in
couplets.
Elegy
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Composed of 14
lines and written in
iambic pentameter.
(Shakespearean)
Sonnet
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Stories of heroes
and their deeds
that illustrate
values of society.
Epic
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Multiple stanzas
that move from
grief to praise to
solace.
Elegy
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Praise or
thankfulness
that addresses
one person,
place, or thing.
Ode
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Stories of
antiheroes and
their catastrophes
that illustrate
values of society.
Mock epic
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Implies but does
not state a
message while
illustrating
thoughts and
feelings.
Lyric
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Story-like narrative
about love, tragedy,
and/or adventure
Ballad
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Poetry
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Cross-overs
Poems
Poetry Characteristics
Cross-Overs
Poems
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These two poem
types are
considered
song-like.
Lyric
and
Ballad
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These two poem
types illustrate
thoughts and
feelings.
Elegy
and
Lyric
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These two poem
types have an
extended
metaphor.
Sonnet
and
Elegy
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These two poem
types have
repetition.
Ballad
and
Lyric
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These three
poem types have
heightened
mature language.
Epic,
Mock Epic,
and Ode
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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters what it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken
Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle’s compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
It this be error and upon me proved,
I never write, nor no man ever loved.
Sonnet
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He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
And snow disfigured the public statues;
The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.
You were silly like us; your gift survived it all:
The parish of rich women, physical decay,
Yourself. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.
Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,
For poetry makes nothing happen: it survives
In the valley of its making where executives
Would never want to tamper, flows on south
From ranches of isolation and the busy griefs,
Raw towns that we believe and die in; it survives,
A way of happening, a mouth.
In the deserts of the heart
Let the healing fountain start,
In the prison of his days
Teach the free man how to praise.
Elegy
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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.
Ode
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At morn- at noon- at twilight dimMaria! thou hast heard my hymn!
In joy and woe- in good and illMother of God, be with me still!
When the hours flew brightly by,
And not a cloud obscured the sky,
My soul, lest it should truant be,
Thy grace did guide to thine and thee;
Now, when storms of Fate o'ercast
Darkly my Present and my Past,
Let my Future radiant shine
With sweet hopes of thee and thine!
Ballad
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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.
The eyes beside had wrung them dry,
And breaths were gathering sure
For that last onset, when the king
Be witnessed in his power.
I willed my keepsakes, signed away
What portion of me I
Could make assignable,-and then
There interposed a fly,
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,
Between the light and me;
And then the windows failed, and then
I could not see to see.
Lyric
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