2nd

Quarter
English
Introducti
on to
POETR
 OBJECTIVES
• Identify the different types
of poetry
• Determine the elements of
poetry
• Create a short poem
 POETRY
A type of writing that uses
language to express
imaginative and emotional
qualities instead of or in
addition to meaning.
 POETRY
• literary work in which special intensity
is given to the expression of feelings
and ideas by the use of distinctive
stycle and rhythm.
• collection of words that express an
emotion or idea.
• In poetry, the sound and meaning of
words are combined to express
feelings, thoughts, and ideas.
• Poems are literary attempts to share
POETRY
requires
creativity
emotion
artistic
quality
POETRY
purpose
to express
ideas,
feelings,
and emotion
 Key Elements of
Poetry
Poetry is a form of writing that uses
not only words,
But also form,
Patterns of sound,
Imagery,
And figurative language
To convey the message.
Any poem will include some or all of
these elements.
 Key Elements of Poetry

1.
• a poem’s form is its
Form
appearance. Poems
are divided into lines.
Many poems,
especially longer
ones, may also be
divided into groups of
lines called stanzas.

• Stanzas function like

paragrapsh in a story.
Each one contains a
 Key Elements of Poetry
1. Form
 Key Elements of Poetry

2. Sound
Devices
some poems use
techinques of sound
such as rhythm,
rhyme,
and
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

1.
Rhythm
• The pattern of
beats or
stresses in
poem.

• Poets use
patterns of
stressed and
unstressed
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices
Rhythm
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

2. Rhyme
The repetition of the same or similar
sounds, usually in stressed syllables at the
ends of lines, but sometimes within a line.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

Rhyme
Scheme
The rhyming pattern that is created at the
end of lines of poetry.

If the poem does not have a rhyme

scheme, it is considered to be a Free
Verse Poem.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices Rhyme Scheme

Sonnet XVIII
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?A
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds ofA
May, B
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
C
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, D
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;C
And every fair from fair sometime declines,D
By chance or nature’s changing course E
untrimm'd; F
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
F
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in hisG
shade, G
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

3.
Alliteration
The repetition of consonant sounds at the
beginnings of words.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

4.
Onomatopoe
Words that are used to represent
ia particular sounds.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Sound Devices

5. Repetition
The repeating of a
particular sound
device to create an
effect.

To create emphasis,
a poet may repeat
words or lines within
the poem.
 Key Elements of Poetry

3. Imagery
Poets use
words that
appeal to the
reader’s senses
of sight, sound,
touch, taste,
and smell.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Imagery

Figures of
Speech
• These are Special kind of
imagery.
• They create pictures by making
comparisons.
 Key Elements of Poetry

Imagery

Figures of
Speech
 Key Elements of Poetry

4. Mood/
Tone
The feelings the author’s
word choices give the
poem.
 Key Elements of Poetry

5. Theme
The theme of the poem is its
central or main idea.

To identify a poem’s theme,

ask yourself what ideas or
insights about life or human
nature you have found in the
Types
of
Poetry
 Types of Poetry

1. Lyric Poem
A short poem which has
the characteristics of a
song.

It pertains to a single
mood or feeling ans is
 Types of Poetry

A. Sonnet
• A very structured fourteen-line
poem that follows a specific
rhyme structure and ryhthm.

• is a relatively short poem

consisting of merely fourteen
lines. It is known to follow a
strict patterm of rhyme.
 Types of Poetry

B. Elegy
• A lyric poem which expresses
lament and mourning of the
dead, feeling of grief and
melancholy.

• The theme of this poem is

death.
 Types of Poetry

C. Ode
• A poem of nobling feeling,
expressed with dignity and
praises for some persons,
objects, events, or ideas.

• It is exalted in tone and

formal in structure and
 Types of Poetry

2. Narrative
Poetry
A poem that tells
the sequence of
events of a story.
 Types of Poetry

A. Epic
• This is a long and narrative poem
that normally tells a story about a
hero or an adventure. Epics can
be oral stories or can be poems in
written form.

1. Popular or ancient poetry is

usually without definite author and
slow in development.
 Types of Poetry

B. Ballad
• Also tell a story like epic poems,
Poems
however, it is often based on a
legend or folk tale.

• Most ballads are written in four-

six stanzas and has a regular
rhythms and rhyme schemes.

• A ballad often features a refrain -

 Types of Poetry

C. Social
• Either purely
Poems
comic or
tragic and
pictures the
life of today.

• It may aim to
bring
changes in
 Types of Poetry

3. Dramatic
• HasPoetry
elements related
closely to the drama.
• It uses a dramatic
technique and may unfold
a story.
• It emphasize the
character rather than the
 Types of Poetry

A. Dramatic
• Monologue
A combination of drama
and poetry.

• It presents some line or

speech of single
character in a particular
but complicated situation
 Types of Poetry

B. Soliloquy
• The speaker of the poem
or the character in a play
delivers a passage.

• The thoughts and

emotions are heard by
the author and the
audience as well.
 Types of Poetry

C. Oration
• This is a formal
address elevated
in tone and usually
delivered on some
notable occasion.
 Types of Poetry

D. Character
• ThisSketch
is a poem which
the writer is concerned
less with elements of
the story.
• He presents his
observations and
 Types of Poetry

Special
Types of
Poems
 Types of Poetry

1. Haiku
A three-line
Japanese poetic Leaves gracefully
form in the lines dance
follow the pattern As if the wind tickles
of five syllables in them
the first line, The wind sings only.
seven syllables in
the second line,
 Types of Poetry

2. Cinquain
Snow
• This is a five-
by Adelaide Crapsey
line poem
which also Look up...
originated in From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first
Japan.
breath
Of wintry wind... look up,
and scent
The snow
 Types of Poetry

3. Free Verse
Poetry that doesn’t follow
any specfic patterns in
rhythm, rhyme scheme,
or line length; may
contain rhymes, but they
are not used in a
 Types of Poetry

Free Verse In the Desert

by Stephen Crane
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked,
bestial,
Who, squatting upon the
ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
 Types of Poetry

4. Name
Poem
A special type of poetry
which belongs to
descriptive poetry that
uses an adjective to
describe a person that
begins with each letter of