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Poetry through the Ages. Poetic forms in Elizabethan, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Poetry. History of Poetry. from the Greek word poesis , which means “making,” or “creating.” Originally composed and shared orally; often set to music Commonalities with folktales
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Poetry through the Ages Poetic forms in Elizabethan, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Poetry
History of Poetry • from the Greek word poesis, which means “making,” or “creating.” • Originally composed and shared orally; often set to music • Commonalities with folktales • Beowulf first known recorded English (old English) poem
Genres of Poetry • Ballad: to be sung/recited; physical courage and love; about common people • Sonnet: Italian/Petrarchan and English/Shakespearian; 14 lines (ending with rhyming couplet). abab cdcd efef gg • Blank Verse: unrhymed but in iambic pentameter ( ĕé) • Free Verse: does not follow set rhyme, meter, rhythm • Lyric: often set to melody; focus on personal emotion
Poetry Timeline • Elizabethan: 1560-1600 • Romantics: 1780-1830 • Victorians: 1833-1903 • Modernist: 1920-1960 • Post-modernist: 1980-
Elizabethan poetry • Queen Elizabeth 1st reigned from 1558-1603 • Bloody time in English history • William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Edmund Spenser most popular • Sonnets, blank verse, narrative poems
Romantics • 1780-1830 Focus on: • Libertariansim • Nature and the sublime • Alternate sources of truth and beauty • The supernatural Popular Poets • William Wordsworth, William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Victorian • 1833-1903 Focus on: • Hope vs. Uncertainty • Science vs. Spirituality • The Rise of Women Popular Poets: • Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning, the Brönte sisters, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rosetti, Lord Alfred Tennyson
Modernist • 1920-1960 Focus on: • Imagism • Free verse • Fundamental Spirituality • Destruction and Darkness • Self-reflection on art Popular poets: • T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings