Literature II 1 Partial

3 genres

Epic, lyric poetry and drama

Epic genre

Myths, heroic legends, histories, edifying religious tales,
animal stories, or philosophical or moral theories.

Examples of epic genre

The Iliad
Odyssey
Beowulf
Nibelungenlied

Lyric poetry

Today are only read, but were actually written to be sung

Drama

Tragedy, comedy and tragicomedy

Lyric

"lyre" which is an instrument used by the grecians to play when reading a poem

Lyrical poets

poets demonstrate specific moods and emotions (love, death...) through words.

Elegy

Mournful, sad, or melancholic poem or a song that expresses sorrow for someone who has bee lost, or died.

Example of elegy

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

Ode

Lyric poem that expresses intense feelings, such as love, respect, or praise for someone or something.

The ode and elegy

Do not follow any strict format or structure, though the ode uses refrains or repeated lines.

Example of Ode

Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Sonnet

It uses fourteen lines, five pairs of accented and unaccented syllables. It flows

Sonnet example

Italian Sonnet by James Deford

Lyrical speaker

Is the character to which the author intends to give life in his text.

Poetic Recipient

The person to whom a poem is addressed. This term is

Poetry

Literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm.

Poem

Composition that, though not in verse, is characterized by great beauty of language or expression

Emotive function

Target factor addresser and source message

Poetic function

Target factor and source is message

Poetic Function

Also known as the aesthetic function, occurs when discourse has an aesthetic purpose, so that the forms of enunciation acquire a high degree of importance.

Is the center of the poetic function

The form of the message, rather than depriving the content, gives it greater significance and forcefulness

Poetic function example

Pablo Neruda, included in his book 20 love poems and a desperate song

Prose

Spoken or written language in its ordinary form. It displays a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech, instead of metrical structure.

Verse

Language arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme and metrical structure

Prose is written in

Sentences that are grouped into paragraphs

The verse is written in

Lines are grouped into stanzas

Comedy

This subgenre of drama has the purpose to amuse or entertain the audience

Plays like Odipus Rex with terrible events are good examples of

Tragedy