--Poetry--
Overview:
What is Poetry
Why do we study it?
Types of poetry
- Poetic forms
- Stanza
- Closed Form
# Italian Sonnet
# English Sonnet
- Villanelle
- Haiku
WHAT IS POETRY?
Is it the best words in the best order?
Or a place where thinking and feeling is one?
An opportunity to see something ordinary as extraordinary
A gift, - like "Different Kinds of sunlight" - D.H.Lawrence -
WHY DO WE STUDY IT?
For the pleasure
For the evocative role of language in converting feeling into form, like turning a rose into language
Because it requires a "new effort of attention and discovers a New World within the known world"
- D.H.Lawrence -
Poetry allows for the development of "the intelligence of feelings" - Robert Witkin -
TYPES OF POETRY:
Pop song lyrics (sounds of silence. Rap)
Humourous poems (Comic verse)
Narrative poems which tell a story (The man from snowy river)
Issues and Political poems (i.e.
About solitary confinment)
Classic poetry (Dillian Thomas - do not go gentle)
Form poems (e.g. Haiku)
POETIC FORMS
In a poem form is defined as a pattern/design of the poem as a whole, for example:
First line - 3 syllables
Second line - 4 syllables
Third line - 3 syllables, and so on...
There are various forms (stanza, closed form, sonnet, and villanelle...)
Free verse stanzas close forms and free verse
STANZA
The first pattern your most likely to notice is the Length Of The Stanza
Some Poems in couplets (2 lines per stanza)
Some Poems in tercets (3 lines per stanza)
Some Poems in quatrains (4 lines per stanza) and so on and so on
These stanzaic patterns are part of the FORM of a poem (as well as other things like syllables)
CLOSED FORMS
- Poems that follow...
My poetry lecture notes: What is Poetry Why do we study it? Types of poetry
Hmmmmm is this something that is going to be handed in? It seems like you have just gone onto the internet and copy and pasted definitions. There is no coherence in this, and well really no argument as such. It leaves you saying "huh what the hell was that?" An impression I don't think you want to leave the person grading it. My suggestion, decribe it in clear, linking sentences, starting with a thesis statement, and also give it more substance then it would be a lot better. :)
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