Poetry and its types.

1. Poetry

2. Outline
 Introduction
 Types of poetry
 Lyric poem
 Sonnet
 Elegies
 Ode
 Narrative poetry
 Epic
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3.  Ballad
 Social poem
 Pastoral poetry
 Blank verse
 Rhymed poetry
 Free verse
 Dramatic poetry
 Haiku
 Cinquain
 Limerick
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4. Introduction
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5. Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, "making") is a
form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic
qualities of language. In poetry the sounds and
meanings of the words are combined to express
feelings, thoughts and ideas. Poetry is an imaginative
interpretation of experience expressed through
meaning, sound and rhythmic language choices
intended to evoke an emotional response.
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6. Poet asks the reader to feel something, not just think
about it. Poetry can be written in lines and stanzas
(groups of lines). When studying poetry, it is useful first
of all to consider the theme and the overall
development of the theme in the poem. Obviously, the
sort of development that takes place depends to a
considerable extent on the type of poem one is dealing
with.
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Types of Poetry

8. Lyric poem
Lyric poem is a short poem which has the
characteristics of a song. It pertains to a single mood or
feeling and is more personal in nature. Lyric poem is a
comparatively short, non-narrative poem in which a
single speaker presents a state of mind or an emotional
state.
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9. Example
 A lyric poem written by Emily Dickinson “I Felt a
Funeral in my Brain.”
 “Go, Lovely Rose” by Edmund Waller is a famed
example of a lyrical love poem.
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10. Sonnet
The word sonnet is derived from the Italian word
Sonetto which means a little song or a small lyric. In
poetry it usually has 14 lines.
Types
1. Petrarchan sonnet.
2. Shakespearean sonnet.
3. Spenserian sonnet.
4. Miltonian sonnet.
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11. Examples
 “Death be not proud” by John Donne.
 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” by William
Shakespeare.
 “When I Consider How My Light is Spent ” by John
Milton.
 “Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare.
 “Amoretti ” by Edmund Spenser.
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12. Elegies
An elegy is a sad poem, usually written to praise and
express sorrow for someone who is dead. Although a
speech at a funeral is a eulogy, you might later compose
an elegy to someone you have loved and lost to the
grave. The purpose of this kind of poem is to express
feelings rather than tell a story. An elegy is a poem that
reflects upon death or loss.
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13. Traditionally, it contains themes of mourning, loss, and
reflection. However, it can also explore themes of
consolation. One of these sad forms is known as an
elegy. In English literature, an elegy is a poem of
serious reflection, usually a lament for the dead.
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14. Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam" is an elegy to a close
friend, Arthur Henry Hallam, and was written over 20 years
is an example of elegy:
Strong Son of God, immortal Love,
Whom we, that have not seen thy face,
By faith, and faith alone, embrace,
Believing where we cannot prove;
Thine are these orbs of light and shade;
Thou madest Life in man and brute;
Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot.
Is on the skull which thou hast. 14

15. Ode
Much like an elegy, an ode is a tribute to its subject,
although the subject need not be dead, or even sentient.
An ode is a long lyric poem with a serious subject
written in an elevated style. This is a poem of noble
feelings, expressed with dignity and praises for some
persons, objects, events or ideas. It is an elaborately
structured poem praising or glorifying an event or
individual, describing nature intellectually as well as
emotionally.
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16. Example
 William Wordsworth’s “Hymn to Duty”.
 Keats’ “Ode to a Grecian Urn”.
 Thomas Gray, “The Progress of Poesy”.
 Thomas Gray, “The Bard”.
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17. Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story,
often making the voices of a narrator and characters as
well; the entire story is usually written in metered verse.
Narrative poems do not need rhyme. The poems that
make up this genre may be short or long, and the story
it relates to may be complex.
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18. Example
 “The Book of the Duchess” by Geoffrey Chaucer.
 “The Divine Comedy "by Dante.
 “The Iliad” and the “Odyssey” attributed to Homer.
 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “The Midnight Ride of
Paul Revere”.
 Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner”.
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19. Epic
An epic poem is a lengthy, narrative work of poetry. An
epic is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a
story about a hero or an adventure. Technically a type
of narrative poem from generation to generation. Epics
usually operate on a large scale, both in length and
topic, such as the beginning of world history (Milton's
Paradise Lost), they tend to use an elevated style of
language.
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20. Example
 Ancient Greek “Odyssey” and “Iliad”.
 Virgil's “Aeneid”.
 Old English “Beowulf”.
 Dante's “Divine Comedy”.
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21. Ballad
A ballad is a form of narrative verse that can be either
poetic or musical. From John Keats to Samuel Taylor
Coleridge to Bob Dylan, it represents a melodious form
of storytelling. In fact, ballad poems are frequently sung
or at least they are intended to be sung. Usually, these
ballads tell a story, often of a mystical nature.
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22. Example
 “I Can't Help Falling in Love With You” by Elvis
Presley.
 “Candle in the Wind” by Elton John.
 “More Than A Feeling” by Boston.
 “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor
Coleridge.
 “Bridal Ballad” by Edgar Allan poe.
 “The Ballad of Birmingham” Poem by Dudley Randall.
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23. Social poetry
Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function
or contains a level of social commentary. This is either
purely comic or tragic and pictures the life of today. It
may aim to bring changes in social conditions.
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24. Example
 “The Social Order” by Ezra Pound.
 “Social Disparity” by Muzahidul Reza.
 “The Worst Side of Rain” by Avleen Kaur
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25. Pastoral poetry
A pastoral poem is one that concerns the natural world,
rural life, and landscapes. One of the poetic favorites is
pastoral poetry because it elicits such wonderful senses
of peace and harmony. It deals with rural life in a
usually artificial manner.
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26. Example
 Christopher Marlowe’s poem ,“ The Passionate
Shepherd to His Love.”
 “The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd” by Walter
Raleigh.
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27. Blank verse
Blank verse is poetry written with a precise meter,
almost always in iambic pentameter. Blank verse is
poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed
lines. It has been described as "probably the most
common and influential form that English poetry has
taken since the 16th century", and Paul Fussell has
estimated that "about three quarters of all English
poetry is in blank verse“.
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28. Example
Marlowe and then Shakespeare developed the potential
of blank verse greatly in the late 16th century.
You stars that reign'd at my nativity,
Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,
Now draw up Faustus like a foggy mist
Into the entrails of yon labouring clouds,
That when they vomit forth into the air,
My limbs may issue from their smoky mouths,
So that my soul may but ascend to Heaven.
Doctor Faustus
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29. Rhymed poetry
In contrast to blank verse, rhymed poems rhyme by
definition, although their scheme varies. A rhymed poem is a
work of poetry that contains rhyming vowel sounds at
particular moments.
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30. Example
 “Stopping by woods on a snowy evening” by Robert
Frost
 “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” by Jane Taylor
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31. Free verse
Free verse poetry is poetry that lacks a consistent rhyme
scheme, metrical pattern, or musical form. Free verse
poems are the least defined. In fact, they are
deliberately irregular. It can consists as many lines as
the writer wants and either rhyme or not and has no
fixed metrical pattern. This type of poem openly called
as “Poem with no rules.” Some people find free verse to
be a less restrictive type of poetry to write since it
doesn't have to employ the form or the rhyming schemes
of other types of poetry.
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32. Example
For Example: “Feelings, Now” by Katherine Foreman.
The free verse form of poetry became popular in the
1800s and continues to be popular among poets even to
this day. TS Eliot was one of the masters of the form, as
best seen in his poems “The Waste Land” and “The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.
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33. "This is Marriage" by Marianne Moore is a great example
of free verse poetry.
The format of "Little Father" by Li-Young Lee contrasts
"This is Marriage" considerably:
I buried my father in my heart.
Now he grows in me, my strange son,
My little root who won't drink milk,
Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,
Little clock spring newly wet
In the fire , little grape, parent to the future
Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,
Little father I ransom with my life. 33

34. Dramatic poetry
Dramatic poetry, also known as dramatic verse or verse
drama, is a written work that both tells a story and
connects the reader to an audience. Dramatic poetry is
a highly emotional story that's written in verse and
meant to be recited. It usually tells a story or refers to a
specific situation. This would include dramatic
monologues and rhyme verses.
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35. Example
 Robert Browning's “My Last Duchess.”
 T.S. Eliot's “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”
 Ai's “Killing Floor.”
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36. Haiku
It is a Special type of poetry which originated from Japan.
It’s the shortest type of poem and, often, the most
difficult to understand. It consists of three lines that
generally do not rhyme. The lines should have five,
seven, and five syllables in them. This form of poetry
also focuses on the beauty and simplicity found in
nature.
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37. Example
 “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra Pound.
 The Old Pond” by Matsuo Basho
 “Lighting One Candle” by Yosa Buson.
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38. Cinquain
A Cinquain is a five-line poem inspired by the Japanese
haiku. There are many different variations of cinquain
including American cinquains, didactic cinquains,
reverse cinquains, butterfly cinquains and crown
cinquains. Cinquain is a class of poetic forms that
employ a 5-line pattern. Earlier used to describe any
five-line form, it now refers to one of several forms that
are defined by specific rules and guidelines.
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39. Example
 “To Helen” by Edgar Allan Poe is first five-line poem.
 “Snow” by Adelaide Crapsey are examples of
cinquain.
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40. Limerick
A limerick is a five-line poem that consists of a single
stanza, an AABBA rhyme scheme, and whose subject is
a short, pithy tale or description. Often, limericks tell a
short, humorous story. These types of poems have been
popular for hundreds of years, particularly in the
English language. When limericks first became popular,
they often expressed ideas that were crude and off-color
but today, limericks express all sorts of ideas. The form
of the limerick was made popular by a British poet
named Edward Lear in the 1800s.
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41. Examples
Edward Lear, a famous British poet, and writer of
literary nonsense, is widely considered the father of the
limerick. His limericks often consisted of stories about
an old man:
There was an Old Man with a beard
Who said, "It is just as I feared!
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!
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42. Conclusion
Poetry is so important because it helps us understand
and appreciate the world around us. Poetry teaches us
how to live. Poetry is a helps us to understand one
another. It leads us away from hate to love, from
violence to mercy and pity. poetry as being the one area
of writing where you can express yourself
wholeheartedly without being judged harshly on how
you say it because it is about expressing one’s
emotions. Poetry is an immediate path to become a
better person.
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43. Poetry is the most personal form of writing and it is
incredibly hard to interpret it. It’s strength lies in its
ability to shed a “sideways” light on the world around
us. Poetry guides us to bring betterment in life. It
illuminates our thinking as well.
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44. Referencing
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45. THANK YOU!
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