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.

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Odes: Long poems that celebrate about someone/something.
Example: Exceprt from Ode to Maize
America, from a grain
of maize you grew
to crown
with spacious lands
the ocean foam.
A grain of maize was your geography.
>From the grain
a green lance rose,
was covered with gold,
to grace the heights
of Peru with its yellow tassels.

But, poet, let
history rest in its shroud;
praise with your lyre
the grain in its granaries:
sing to the simple maize in the kitchen.

Significance: Odes give thanks to important people or objects.

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Sonnet: has fourteen lines with iambic pentameter (unstressed and stressed syllables)
Example: From fairest creatures we desire increase,
That thereby beauty's rose might never die,
But as the riper should by time decease,
His tender heir might bear his memory:
But thou contracted to thine own bright eyes,
Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel,
Making a famine where abundance lies,
Thy self thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel:
Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament,
And only herald to the gaudy spring,
Within thine own bud buriest thy content,
And tender churl mak'st waste in niggarding:
Pity the world, or else this glutton be,
To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee.

Significance: Shakespeare used this type of poetry all the time for his poems.

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Lyric: Expresses feelings of a speaker.

Example: A rhyme
in time
can save nine

Oh how I hate
the need to equate
poetry
symmetry

Upper case to start a line,
no fragments, rules,
poems with meter and rhyme

I don’t have time
to get the rhyme
right

Words need to flow
not be just so, so
I break the rules
parse my thoughts
schemes and let
it flow

Siginificance: This type of poetry tells the speaker's feelings, not a story. It can be from the poet's experiences.

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Epic: Long narrative poem with big words, tells stories of heroes.
Example: If love you found
Then why dream of an escape

All exits blocked,
No where to run

Dreams of false hope
I can still only dream you'll be in my arms again

Living against life
It shows no mercy

Within dreams uncovers the truth
The truth we so desperately try to hide

The nexus between joy and sorrow
Come closer together

(to be continued in parts)

Significance: This type of poem has been around for many years.

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Ballad: Song about love, betrayal, death.
Example: Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping aloft
And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down below.

Significance: Balladsd have a lot of repetition and uses simple language.

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Narrative: Poems that tell a story.

Example: The Last Tourament (Excerpt) by Alfred Tennyson

For Arthur and Sir Lancelot riding once
Far down beneath a winding wall of rock
Heard a child wail. A stump of oak half-dead,
From roots like some black coil of carven snakes,
Clutched at the crag, and started through mid air
Bearing an eagle's nest: and through the tree
Rushed ever a rainy wind, and through the wind
Pierced ever a child's cry: and crag and tree
Scaling, Sir Lancelot from the perilous nest,
This ruby necklace thrice around her neck,
And all unscarred from beak or talon, brought
A maiden babe; which Arthur pitying took,
Then gave it to his Queen to rear: the Queen
But coldly acquiescing, in her white arms
Received, and after loved it tenderly,
And named it Nestling; so forgot herself
A moment, and her cares; till that young life
Being smitten in mid heaven with mortal cold
Past from her; and in time the carcanet
Vext her with plaintive memories of the child:
So she, delivering it to Arthur, said,
'Take thou the jewels of this dead innocence,
And make them, an thou wilt, a tourney-prize.

Significance: A narrative poem is like a telling a story, but in a shorter version, which may rhyme. A narrative poem might be very interesting for readers to read because people tend to like stories.

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Lines

Definition: a single line of verse in a poem.

Example: I took out a kite from my bag
But it got stolen by two hags

Significance: to know line is easier to determine where to look for a specific line in a poem.

Meter

Definition: Same amount of syllables throughout each lines of the poem

Example: In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Significance: To bring emotions and mood to the readers.

Speaker

Definition: Feelings expressed by a person in a poem or a speech.

Example: Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village, though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
”Stopping by the Woods on Snowy Evening” by Robert Frost

Significance: : Often a speaker poem is a poem which tells about the poet’s experiences.

Tone

Definition: The rising and falling of your voice.

Example: I shall be telling this with a sign
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference
"A Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Significance: Tone helps to tell a mood in a poem.

Couplet

Definition: Two line poem that rhymes

Example:A clown’s colorful afro
Has a shade of a bread dough
He smiled at me and said “Yo”.

Significance:Couplets are very traditional, and if you know your topic well, you’d be able to write a nice and easy poem.

Rhythm

Picture from "Happy Feet"
Definition: Movements of beat; arrangement of tones, alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables.

Example: The wind in his hair
The chair that sat there
Eyes on eyes
Fire and lye
in the river sky

Significance: Rhythm makes you feel the beat of a poem.

Rhyme

Definition: Repetition of same sounds at the end of lines.

Example: Chips are laid as a bunch
Chew them and they crunch

Significance: Rhymes are fun and easier to learn and remember, especially in poems.

Onomatopoeia

Definition: figure of speech which words are used to imitate a sound.

Examples: Crunch, ruff, cheep, munch…

Significance: This adds a reality to a poem

Personification

Definition: Giving human character traits to an object or animals.

Example: Time is money, so don’t waste it.

Significance: This can help readers to enjoy a poem more by picturing it and it can change the way a reader look at things.

Imagery

Definition: Making readers to picture the poem in their mind by looking at the images and senses that they already know.

Example: Excerpt from “Preludes” by T. S. Eliot

The winter evening settles down
With smell of steaks in passageways.
Six o'clock.
The burnt-out ends of smoky days.
And now a gusty shower wraps
The grimy scraps
Of withered leaves about your feet
And newspapers from vacant lots;
The showers beat
On broken blinds and chimney-pots,
And at the corner of the street
A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.
And then the lighting of the lamps.

Significance: Imagery help to make an author’s words more powerful with his/her own words.

Simile

Definition: Two things are compared by using “like” or “as”

Example: As the clock ticked to 8 o’clock, he rushed to school like a bolt of lightning.

Significance: To compare and contrast two objects or nouns easily, even though the two objects or nouns might not be completely similar or different.

Extended Metaphor

Definition: An extended metaphor is a longer metaphor that continues for more lines and stanzas.

Example: The crashing waves roared
As it crashed into the shore
It can be mighty
Or it can be a bore

Significance: It can make many comparisons in many lines instead of just one.

Stanza

Definition: a paragraph in a poem.

Example:

(STANZA ONE)
You magnify my happiness
When I am feeling glad;
You help to heal my injured heart
Whenever I am sad.

(STANZA TWO)
You’re such a pleasure in my life;
I hope that you can see
How meaningful your friendship is;
You’re a total joy to me.

Significance: Stanza helps us to figure out where people are talking in the poem when we have discussions. Like for example, if we needed to find line two, stanza two, it would be easier to locate where it is just by saying stanza two. Then, the people who were looking for line two in stanza two to locate it easier. Also, it helps for poets to not combine everything in a poem together, but to separate it so that it’ll be easier to read and it’d look nice.

Metaphor

Definition: When you use a metaphor, you use two nouns and compare it to one another without using “like” or “as”.

Example: Arguments can be explosives
With temper that you cannot control
Words are poison
Because of the things you cannot take back

Significance: Metaphor is important because we use it in English everyday. Authors indicate their point in literature use the use of metaphor. It helps us to compare or to exaggerate something.

Poetry

Definition: Sentences that flow like a song, often rhyme or free verse.
Example: As I lay looking up in the sky, I saw a shooting star
I made a wish and hoped that it would go very far.


Significance: Since poetry is another form of art. It helps students to be more creative and know how to limit words in a sentence if it's spread out more.