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Introduction To Poetry

This document provides an introduction to poetry, including definitions, purposes, key elements, and types of poetry. It defines poetry as a collection of words that express emotion or ideas using imaginative and emotional language. The document outlines several purposes of poetry, such as expressing ideas, feelings, and emotions. It also discusses key elements like form, speaker, sound, imagery, and figurative language. Several types of poetry are defined, including free verse, haiku, narrative poems, and sonnets. The document concludes by explaining literary devices commonly found in poetry, such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, repetition, and figurative language like similes and personification.

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Introduction To Poetry

This document provides an introduction to poetry, including definitions, purposes, key elements, and types of poetry. It defines poetry as a collection of words that express emotion or ideas using imaginative and emotional language. The document outlines several purposes of poetry, such as expressing ideas, feelings, and emotions. It also discusses key elements like form, speaker, sound, imagery, and figurative language. Several types of poetry are defined, including free verse, haiku, narrative poems, and sonnets. The document concludes by explaining literary devices commonly found in poetry, such as rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, repetition, and figurative language like similes and personification.

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Introduction to

Poetry

TO BE REPORTED BY:
Mr L Mosimango
Definition

• A collection of words that express an


emotion or idea.
• Poems are literary attempts to share
personal experiences and feelings.
• Good poems show images which leave the
reader the sense of delight, awe and
wonder.
Definition of Poetry
• Poetry - A type of writing that uses
language to express imaginative
and emotional qualities instead of
or in addition to meaning.

• Poetry may be written as individual


poems or included in other written
forms as in dramatic poetry,
hymns, or song lyrics.
Which half do you use when
studying poetry?

• Poetry requires creativity


• Poetry requires emotion
• Poetry requires an artistic quality
• Poetry requires logic.
Purpose of Poetry

• To express ideas, feelings and emotions.


Key Elements of Poetry
• Form
• Speaker
• Sound
• Imagery
• Figurative Language
Types of Poetry

Free Verse:
Poetry that doesn’t
follow any specific
patterns in rhythm,
rhyme scheme, or line
length; free verse may
contain rhymes, but
they are not used in a
prescribed manner
Types of Poetry

Haiku
Kochira muke
A three-line Japanese Ware mo sabishiki
poetic form in the lines Aki no kure
follow the pattern of
five syllables in the Will you turn
first line, seven toward me?
syllables in the second I am lonely too,
line, and five syllables This autumn
in the third line. evening.
Types of Poetry
Types of Poetry

Narrative Poem:
A poem that tells the sequence of events of a story;
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” is a narrative poem
Types of Poetry

Sonnet:

A very structured fourteen-line poem that


follows a specific rhyme structure and rhythm.
The two most common sonnets are the Italian
sonnet and the English sonnet. William
Shakespeare wrote many English sonnets, which
are also referred to as hakespearean sonnets.
Rhyme

One of the most beautiful elements found in


poetry is rhyme.
Rhyme is the matching of sounds that are
similar.

Say, Pay, Tray, Spray, Day, May

Blue, True, zoo, do, too


Rhyme

When working with rhyme, you should


always remember that the most important
part of verse is the last word.
• The last word of each verse is what
establishes they rhyme.
Twinkle, twinkle little star! A
How I wonder what you are A Rhyme
Up above the world so high. B Scheme
Like a diamond in the sky. B
Rhythm

• It is a movement with uniform recurrence


of a beat or accent." In its crudest form
rhythm has a beat with little or no
meaning.
Alliteration
• The repetition of the initial letter or sound
in two or more words in a line.
To the lay-person, these are called
“tongue-twisters”.

• Example: How much dew would a


dewdrop drop if a dewdrop did drop
dew?
Repetition
• Using the same key word or phrase
throughout a poem.

This should be fairly


self-explanatory,
but . . .
at risk of sounding like
a broken record . . .
Figurative Language
Figurative Language
Figurative Language is the
use of words outside of their
literal or usual meaning to
add beauty or force.

It is characterized by the use


of similes and metaphors.
Figurative Language

Simile: A direct, explicit comparison of one


thing to another in which the
words like or as are used.

Example:
She looks like an angel.

Her lips are as sweet as honey.


Figurative Language

Personification: The strategy of giving


animate qualities to abstract
concepts, or inanimate
things.

Example:
This handless clock stares blindly from its
tower.
Figurative Language

Onomatopoeia: The attempt to echo or


imitate sounds with words.

Example:
Bow-wow, oink-oink, tic-tac, howling
Figurative Language

Hyperbole: An exaggeration

Example:
I have been waiting for a million years.
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