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Notes: Types of Poetry
Poetry
Epic
Lyric
Ode
Elegy
Sonnet
Couplet
Ballad
Type
Definition
Purpose
Features
Examples
Epic
Definition
Purpose + History
Features
Examples
a long, serious, poetic
narrative about a
significant event,
often featuring a hero.
•Form of
entertainment
(novela)
•used to promote
cultural values
•originally told not
written
-Long!
-Musical feel (meter:
bouncy rhythym)
-Rhyming
Beowolf
The Odyssey
The Illiad (Troy)
Epic : Beowolf
O flower of warriors, beware of that trap.
Choose, dear Beowulf, the better part,
eternal rewards. Do not give way to pride.
For a brief while your strength is in bloom
but it fades quickly; and soon there will follow
illness or the sword to lay you low,
or a sudden fire or surge of water
or jabbing blade or javelin from the air
or repellent age. Your piercing eye
will dim and darken; and death will arrive,
dear warrior, to sweep you away.
Ode
Definition
History
An ode is a lyric poem, •Greek origin
usually addressing a
•Celebrates a person
particular person or
or thing
thing
Features
Examples
•Focus on one thing
•Expresses awe,
adoration,
wonderment
•3 stanzas
Ode to Thanks – Pablo
Neruda
Ode to Maiz: Pablo Neruda
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.
Sonnet
Definition
Purpose + History
Features
Examples
A lyric poem that
follows strict rules.
•Focus on one topic
•Express feelings
about topic
•from the Italian word
for "little song“
•14 lines,
•strict rhyme scheme
•iambic pentameter
•three coordinate
quatrains
•a concluding couplet
Shakespearean
Sonnets
Sonnet 130 - Shakespeare
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then she is nothing but dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Elegy
Definition
History
Features
Examples
poem expressing
sorrow for one who is
dead
•Ancient Greece
•Mourn the dead
•3 stages of loss:
1. lament: speaker
expresses sorrow
“Oh Captain, My
Captain” – Walt
Whitman
2. praise and
admiration of the
idealized dead
3. consolation and
solace.
Ballad
Definition
History
Features
Examples
a narrative in
rhythmic verse
suitable for singing
•The word French. It is
derived from late 15c.,
from Fr. ballade
meaning "dancing
song".
•Traditional ballads
were stories and
romantic tales set to
melody and rhyming
and were penned in a
style so as to be sung
to music.
•Stanzas
•Rhyming 2nd and 4th
lines
•Refrain used (chorus)
“Ballad of
Birmingham” –
Dudley Randall
Ballad of Birmingham
"Mother dear, may I go downtown
Instead of out to play,
And march the streets of Birmingham
In a Freedom March today?"
"No, baby, no, you may not go,
For the dogs are fierce and wild,
And clubs and hoses, guns and jails
Aren't good for a little child."