Elegy

Definition: Mourning poem for someone/animal who/that died.
Example: Angie

noone knows what really happened to her

all they know that she was naked and dead

some people say it was foul play some people say

it was a blood vessel in her head

but then i began to have these wierd dreams about her

some beautiful some horrible

but how do we know whats real and whats a fantasy

when Angie's not here to tell

Significance: To show feelings to that important someone that died.

Alliteration

Definition: repetition of sounds in neighbouring words.
Example: The moan of doves in immemorial elms,
And murmuring of innumerable bees.
Significance: Makes poem more interesting to read.

Assonance

Definition: repeated vowel sounds to create rhyming within phrases or sentences.
Example: Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.
Significance: It is used to reinforce the meanings of words or to set the mood.

Symbol

Definition: Symbols can be a use of an object or a person to indicate its meaning, the meaning can be differenct or similar to the object/person in use.
Example: Two fingers = peace sign.
Significance: Symbol helps people to understand better, also it doesn't take up much time.

Interpretation

Definition: determines of the poem needs to be understood (symbols).
Example: Cross your fingers for goodluck: if you want something, cross your fingers when you ask for it.
Significance: Study poems to help understanding it.

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Free verse: Poetry without rhyming or any specific rules.
Example: My epitaph stared back at me,

grinning knowingly at

the paper cut peep show.

Dead Man Shaving.



Fumbling through the motions

I smoked a peace pipe,

and declared war on life,

the universe,

and modern art.

Significance: This type of poetry does not have any regular meter, it's the easiest type of poetry to write.

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Elegy: A poem to mourn of someone who passed away, it can be an animal.

Example: Where are you Mom, where did you go

You have gone to a place I do not know

Your new world does not include me

It’s rather cloudy, from what I see

You sit there in your chair

With such a vacant empty stare

I wish I could bring back the better times

Significance: This type of poetry is written in elegiac meter and to use when we are sad of someone who's close to us has died.