2. Poetry:
from the Greek poiesis
The word means: (The
making of Poetry)

3. Poetry is a type of
literary art which uses
aesthetic and rhythmic
qualities of language to
create meaning

4. Poetry is emotion put
into measure. Thomas
Hardy
Poetry is the language
of the imagination and
the passions. William
Hazlitt

5. Methods of writing Poetry:
1- Personal way: when the poet speaks in his
own voice and expresses his own feelings.
Example : Rafif Zyadah’s poem.
This kind of poems are called “lyrical”
2- Impersonal way: when the poet expresses
what others might have felt or suffered
without providing a clue to his own feelings.
For example: The extract on Page(34).

6. The two styles, personal and
impersonal dominate the whole
history of poetry.
Sometimes the two styles are
combined in one poem.
All classifications of poetry start
from the differentiation between
them.

7. Impersonal style in poetry:
Epic
Ballad
Satire
Narrative

8. 1- Epic

10. An Epic is :
1- along narrative poem
2- it is written in a grand ceremonious style
3- Celebrates and describes the deeds of a
hero
4- the hero is usually protected from gods or
sometimes a demi-god (a character larger
than life)
5- the hero performs
supernatural actions in his
voyages and battles

15. Epics are part history, part legend
and part pure myth.
Epics are a source of
information. They tell us about
old nations history.

16. Kinds of Epics:
1- Primary
2-Secondary
3- philosophical
4- Romantic
5-Mock heroics

17. The Primary Epics vs. The Secondary epics
• Primary epics are • Secondary epics are the
literary epics that are
the oldest epics written by known
with mysterious poems to celebrate
origins. their nations.
• Examples: (Imitations of the
primary epics)
• Beowulf • Examples:
• Gilgamesh • Homer’s Iliad and
• Mahabharata Odyssey
• Ramayana • Virgil’s Aeneid
• Milton’s Paradise Lost

18. 3- Philosophical epics
for example: Dante’s Divine
Comedy
4- Romantic epics.
For example: Ariosto’s Orland
Furioso and Spencer’s The Faerie
Queen

19. 5- Mock- heroic : some poets used
the grand style of epics for
humorous purposes. They choose a
trivial matter and give it a very
serious treatment.
For example : Pope’s The Rape of the
Lock (deals with the stealing of a
lock of hair from the head of a girl!!)

21. Heroic Poetry
Kind of narrative poetry that deals with war
and military adventures but instead of
dealing with a long poem they deal with
single episodes.
For example:
Widisth
The Battle of Maldon