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Poetic Styles. Descriptive Poetry Notable for its vividness. -Uses descriptions that appeal to the _______ -Engages the imagination. Poetic Styles Con’t. Narrative Poetry Tells a ____________________ -Concerned with ________________________________. Poetic Styles Con’t.
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Poetic Styles • Descriptive Poetry • Notable for its vividness. • -Uses descriptions that appeal to the _______ • -Engages the imagination
Poetic Styles Con’t • Narrative Poetry • Tells a ____________________ • -Concerned with ________________________________
Poetic Styles Con’t • Reflective Poetry • Searches for deep _______________ and poses the questions of existence. • -Contemplates life & what it means to be ___________ • -Eg. Who am I? Is there an ultimate purpose to life? What is the nature of happiness?
Structure of Poetry • Rhyme Schemes are described USING LETTERS that correspond to sets of rhymes. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, A Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; A All the king’s horses, and all the king’s men, B Couldn’t put Humpty together again. B • The Rhyme Scheme for this poem is: ___________________
Structure of Poetry • Meter – a.k.a. rhythm • The pattern of beats or stresses • Can be specific and consistent • Iambic Pentameter • Is a line of poetry with 5 iambic feet in a row. • The MOST COMMON meter in English poetry
Types of Poetry • Sonnet • A fourteen line poem in iambic pentameter • Its subject is traditionally that of ______. • 2 Kinds: • Petrarchan • Italian, octave (8 lines) & sestet (6 lines) • Rhyme scheme is ababcdcd then cdecde • Shakesperian • No octave/sestet structure • Rhyme scheme is ababcdcdefefgg
Types of Poetry Con’t • Villanelle • Poem of ________ lines • Has 5 stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines • 1st line of 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 2nd and 4th stanzas • 3rd line of the 1st stanza is repeated as the last line of the 3rd and 5th stanzas • These 2 lines are the last 2 lines of the poem • Rhyme scheme is ________
Types of Poetry Con’t • Ballad • A song-like poem that tells a story (_________) • Four to Six line __________ • Regular rhythm and rhyme schemes • “The Ballad of Reading Gaol” by Oscar Wilde
Types of Poetry Con`t • Concrete Poem • A Poem whose form represents its subject or _____________. (Soda Pop)
Types of Poetry Con’t… • Elegy • A poem whose purpose is to express grief or sorrow for the dead. Often read at __________ VS. • Eulogy (Not poetry) • A plain language ________ whose purpose is to express sorrow or grief for the dead. Also read at funerals.
Types of Poetry Con`t • Ode • Poem written to celebrate an event, a person, a thing, a being, a power, an object etc. • Horatian Odes: follow a regular stanza pattern and rhyme scheme • Irregular Odes: No set stanza or rhyme scheme
Assignment • Write your own Ode or Elegy • It must be at least 12 lines • Can be about anything or anyone • Can be serious (tribute to someone you love/loved) • It can be humorous (a tribute to something unusual) • Due. Tuesday, November 22nd