Poetry

• POETRY - uses forms and conventions to suggest differential interpretation to words, or to evoke emotive responses. Devices such as assonance,alliteration, onomatopoeia and rhythm are sometimes used to achieve musical or incantatory effects. The use of ambiguity, symbolism, irony and other stylistic elements of poetic diction often leaves a poem open to multiple interpretations.

 Similarly, metaphor, simile and metonymy  create a resonance between otherwise disparate images—a layering of meanings, forming connections previously not perceived. Kindred forms of resonance may exist, between individual verses, in their patterns of rhyme or rhythm.

" THREE GROUPS OF POETRY "

I.  Narrative poetry 

         - is a form of poetry which tells a story, often making use of the voices of a narrator and characters as well; the entire story is usually written in metred verse. The poems that make up this genre may be short or long, and the story it relates to may be complex. It is usually dramatic, with objectives, diverse characters, and metre.

1.)Ballad - is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads derive from the medievalFrench chanson balladée or ballade, which were originally "dancing songs".

2.)Mertrical Tale – a series of events or facts told or presented.

3.)Epic - (from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos) "word, story, poem") is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.

II. Lyric poems 

         - typically express personal or emotional feelings and is traditionally the home of the present tense. They have specific rhyming schemes and are often, but not always, set to music or a beat.

1.)    Song – a poem set to music.

2.)    Sonnet – a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines.

3.)    Elegy – a poem expressing sorrow or lamentation for one who is dead.

4.)    Ode – a poem usually marked by exaltation of feeling and style. It is used to praise a leader or memorialize an occasion.

5.)    Lullabies – a soothing refrain, specifically a song to quite down children or lull them to sleep.

III.  Dramatic poetry 

       – includes plays which are written in verse.

1.) Dramatic monologue – a literary work in which a character reveals himself in a dramatic sketch performed by himself alone.

2.) Soliloquy – the act of talking to oneself.

3.) Character sketch – a poem which dramatize the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual. 

4.) Prose poetry – a narrative in poetry form