4. LYRICAL POEM
■It follows a metrical pattern
derived from the lyre, the musical
instrument used for reciting or
singing poems in ancient times.
5. BREATHING PATTERN
■ Cirilo Bautista noted that the
originators of free verse believed that
the language of the poem should be as
close as possible to common speech– in
rhythm, diction and tempo.
■ He said as well even in free verse “the
matter how long or short a line should
depend on the natural system of
6. TONE
The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it —
the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience.
The tone in a poem of praise is approval. In a satire,
you feel irony. In an antiwar poem, you may feel
protest or moral indignation
Tone can also mean the general emotional
weather of the poem.
7. Still I Rise
BY MAYA ANGELOU
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
8. Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
9. Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
10. Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
11. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
12. Rhythm
The word rhythm is derived from rhythmos
(Greek) which means, “measured motion.” Rhythm is
a literary device that demonstrates the long and short
patterns through stressed and unstressed syllables,
particularly in verse form.
13. PERSONA
■ A persona, from the Latin for mask, is a
character taken on by a poet to speak in a
first-person poem.
14. The Fly
William Blake - 1757-1827
William Blake was born in London on
November 28, 1757, to James, a hosier,
and Catherine Blake. Two of his six
siblings died in infancy. From early
childhood, Blake spoke of having
visions—at four he saw God "put his
head to the window"; around age nine,
while walking through the countryside,
he saw a tree filled with angels.
15. THE FLY
Little fly,
Thy summer’s play
My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
16. For I dance
And drink and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
And strength and breath,
And the want
Of thought is death,
Then am I
A happy fly,
If I live,
Or if I die.
17. RHYME SCHEME
■ A rhyme scheme is the pattern
of rhymes at the end of each line of a
poem or song. It is usually referred to by
using letters to indicate which lines rhyme;
lines designated with the same letter
all rhyme with each other.
18. CAeSURA
■ It is another technique in the poem with
rhyme and meter.
■ It is how we cut the line equally.
19. EXAMPLE:
“Kung ikaw, Panulat ay di magagamit
Kundi sa paghamak sa Bayang may hapis,
Manong mabagli ka’t ang taglay mong tulis
Ay bualagin ako’t suagatan ang dibdib.”
This is how caesura works its way.
“Kung ikaw, Panulat,/ay di magagamit
Kundi sa paghamak/sa Bayang may hapis,
Manong mabagli ka’t/ ang taglay mong tulis
Ay bualagin ako’t/suagatan ang dibdib
