W:3 Genres and forms of poetry

Lyre

Lyre

The name “Lyric” originates from?

Lyrical verses

expresses personal emotions and subjective response to an experience

Lyric Poetry

It focuses on an image or an object, the meaning of a concept, an experience, event or encounter. It is also often meditative

Wordsworth

“The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

Coleridge

“An intensely subjective and personal expression.”

Donald Hall

“A short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker. Often written in first person and often with song like immediacy and emotional force.”

Haiku

A japanese poetic form and one of the shortest types of lyric poetry

Haiku

Consist of 17 syllables arranged in a tercet

5-7-5

the first line has ___ syllables, the second has ____, and the third is ___

Ode

A serious, elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling

Elegy

A meditative poem on life and death; It may be written to mourn the death of a person

Sonnet

A poem with 14 lines in iambic pentameter

Shakespearean

3 quatrains + 1 couplet rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg

Petrarchan

1 octave + 1 sestet rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdecde

Villanelle

A highly structured poem originated from france. It is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains

Narrative Poetry

Tells a story, and can be factual or fictitious

Narrative Poetry

It is often objective, distanced from the subject, and written in third person

• topic

• theme

• voice

• viewpoint

• moment/situation

• ending

Elements of Narrative Poetry

Epic

A long poem describing the deeds of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural or divine forces

Ballad

It tells tales in the language of the common man ____ are dramatic, musical, and communal

Lai

A short story in verse; usually a nonet, 9 lines made up of 3 tercets; follows the aab aab aab rhyme scheme; syllables per line are 5-5–2

Dramatic poetry

It’s a poem told through one or more characters voice, perspective, and language

dramatic poetry

It’s focus is personality, motive, and viewpoint

Dramatic poetry

It is wirtten through dialogue and is often performed

• Soliloquy

• Monologue

Forms of narrative poetry

Soliloquy

Involves a character speaking mainly to himself, not interacting with anyone else

Monologue

also involves a single character talking to someone (usually the audience) who does not respond

Archibald MacLeish

Ars poetica by

Jose Garcia Villa

Lyric 17 by?

Billy Collins

Introduction to poetry by?