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Forms of Poetry

Miss Andrews10th Grade English

Forms of Poetry

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NarrativePoetry that has a plotLength variesDramaticWritten in verse, meant to be spokenCharacters are very theatrical; emotionalLyricShort poetic form that is an expression of personal emotionHas songlike quality; does not have to rhymeWritten in first person (not necessarily the poet)

Poetry Genres

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ElegyEpicBallad

Sonnet HaikuDramatic MonologueDifferent Poetic Forms

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A characteristic of a Haiku is having a 5-7-5 pattern. This poem does not follow this pattern.

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This poem does not honor someone who has died, like an elegy does.

Click on the quill to return to quizVoice of a historical or fictional character speaks, first person No intervening by a narratorSpoken to silent audienceExcerpt from a Dramatic MonologueLord Alfred Tennysons UlyssesI am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.Dramatic Monologue

Click on quill for the Main MenuLets test your knowledge on poetic forms. Please read the question and poem below. After that, click on the answer you believe is correct.Question: Which form is the poem below?Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.Review quiz! EpicHaikuElegySonnet

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A poetic form that praises or remembers someone who diedBegan in Ancient GreeceDepicts three stages of loss:Grief and sorrowPraise Comfort

Excerpt from an Elegy: W.H. Audens In Memory of W.B. YeatsHe disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day. What instruments we have agree The day of his death was a dark cold day.

Elegy

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A prolonged narrative poem, celebrating soldierly heroes and invokes divine inspirationWritten in high styleDescribes great achievements and events

Excerpt from an Epic Poem:Homers The IliadAnd the shivers took hold of Hektor when he saw him, and he could no longer stand his ground there,but left the gates behind, and fled, frightened, and Peleus' son went after him in the confidence of his quick feet.

Epic

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A poetic form which reads as a light simple songEspecially one of sentimental or romantic appeal2 or more stanzas (stanza is grouping of lines that consists of meter and rhyme)Adapted for singingExcerpt from a Ballad:Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical BalladsStrange fits of passion have I knownAnd I will dare to tell,But in the Lovers ear alone,What once to me befel.

Ballad

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