• Live thy life • ---Young and old, • Like yon oak, • Bright in spring, • ---Living gold; • All his leaves • ---Fall’n at length • Look, he stands • Trunk and bough • ---Naked strength.
entertainment.
• Epics are usually about early history or the origin of a nation
• Iliad and Odyssey Beowulf
Types of Poetry
• Ballad • Ballads are usually single, spirited poems written in 4-line stanzas, in which some popular stories are vividly told.
Rhyme
• Masculine Rhyme and Feminine Rhyme • Masculine Rhyme is rhyme between one-syllable words(jail, pail) or between stressed final syllables in words of two or more syllables(divorce, remorse). • Feminine Rhyme is rhyme of two or more syllables, with stress on a syllable or other than the last. • • • • • • Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so tenderly, Young, and so fair. Bridge of Sighs Thomas Hood
Practice of Rhyme
• • To----Percy Bysshe Shelley
• One word is too often profaned • For me to profane it, • One feeling too falsely disdain’d • For thee to disdain it;
• Oral origin
• Early ballads are about semi-historical, pagan supernatural or tragic love stories.
• Robin Hood
Sir Patrick Spens
Types of Poetry
• Lyric
About Poetry
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Rhyme Rhythm and Meter
Form
types
Rhyme
• Rhyme occurs when two words or phrases contain an identical or similar vowel sound,
usually accented, and an identical consonant
• • • • -\-\-\-\-\ So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, -\-\-\-\-\ So long lives this, and this gives life the thee.
Meter
• The pattern of rhythm In a poem is called Meter • 4 basic meters: Iambic -\-\-\-\ Anapestic --\--\--\--\ Trochaic \-\-\-\Dactylic \--\--\--\--\--
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Types of Poetry
• Elegy
• Elegy is a poem of lamentation for the
dead.
• Elegy written in a country Churchyard.
Practice
Fire and Ice
Robert Frost • • • • • • • • Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great
Foot
• The unit of meters is foot.
Monometer dimeter Trimeter tetrameter Pentameter hexameter Heptameter octameter
Practice of Rhythm and meter
• The Oak • Alfred Tennyson
Form of the poetry
• Form is the design of a poem, the particular pattern it takes when it is written on paper. • • • • • The recurring unit of a poem is called stanza. Blank verse Couplet quatrain Sonnet • • • All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances.
sound(if any) that follows the vowel sound. • Rhyme is the major element that contributes to the music of poetry.
Rhyme
• Rhyme scheme: the rhyme in a poem will usually form a pattern. • a b c d e f g
• It refers to poems written to be sung to a lyre, and an ancient musical instrument with strings fixed to a U-shape frame.
• Ode
• Ode is thought to be the noblest kind of lyric, which is usually a praise of God or the gods.
Types of Poetry
• Epic---the oldest type • Epics are often oral poetry in origin, sung by minstrels or wandering poets at the king’s court or on important occasions as a form of
• • • • • • • • • Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast In a field I looked into going past, And the ground almost covered smooth in snow, But a few weeds and stubble showing last. The woods around it have it – it is theirs, All animals are smothered in their lairs, I am too absent-spirited to count; The loneliness includes me unawares. aaba ccdc
• One hope is too like despair • For prudence to smother, • And pity from thee more dear • Than that from another.
Rhythm and Meter
• Rhythm is produced by a series of recurrences.