2. personal method of
writing poetry

3. personal Poetry
or
Lyrical Poetry

4. This kind of
poetry is a direct
record of
personal
experience and
feelings of the
poet.

5. The poet speaks
in his own voice

6. Kinds of Lyrical Poetry:
• Lyrics
•Sonnets
•Odes
•Elegy

7. Lyrics are short
poems on any
subject that record
an outburst of
feeling inspired by
something
immediate

8. • Lyrics don’t have
a specific
structure
• They are the
spontaneity of
the emotion
expressed

9. Sonnets :
are a type of
lyrical poetry but
are written in a
specific form

10. The sonnet is 14
lines of iambic
pentameter that
discuss one idea

11. Iambic pentameter:
a line of verse that
has five syllables
unstressed syllable
followed by a
stressed syllable

12. Kinds of Sonnets
Italian sonnet English Sonnet
• Italian sonnets are • The English
consist of 2 parts: sonnet is also
• Part 1 : is called an known as the
octave and consists Shakespearian
of 8 lines sonnet and
• Part 2: is called a consist of 3
sestet and consist of quatrains and a
6 lines couplet

15. Odes: are lyrical poems
with irregular meter
that describe or
celebrate a special
event

16. Odes can be short
or long but
usually tend to be
lengthy

17. John Keats’ Odes
are widely read in
English literature for
example:
an Ode to a
Nightingale and
Ode to Autumn

18. Elegy:
is a lyrical poem that
lament the death of
someone.
( a death song)

19. 2 Kinds of Elegies
Plain Elegy Pastoral Elegy
• is a poem that • is also a lament but in
expresses the fiction. The poem
feelings of grief on describe the life of the
the death of dead person as a
shepherd or a
someone
shepherdess in a
• For example: Ben country life
Johnson’s On My • Example: Shelly’s
Son Adonais

20. End of Lecture