Monday 2 May 2011

Types of Poetry

1. Narrative:
Definition: Poem that tell about the story.
Example: There was three kings into the east, 
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.

Significance: This type of poems the writer talking about the story they made or base on the true story.
2. Ballads:
Definition: Poems that talk about love and dramatic things.
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: When you love someone you write ballads to express your feeling.

3. Epic:
Definition: Poems that talk about the hero.
Example: By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, 
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.

Significance: The writers write about the person is a hero to their countries or saved them so they write epic.

4. Lyric:
Definition: Poems that express love.
Example: I heard a fly buzz when I died;
The stillness round my form
Was like the stillness in the air
Between the heaves of storm.

Significance: This type of poems is for the person who you love or have a strong feeling with.

5. Sonnets:
Definition: Poems that has 14 lines which express feeling.
Example: When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,

For all the day they view things unrespected;
But when I sleep, in dreams they look on thee,
And darkly bright are bright in dark directed.
Then thou, whose shadow shadows doth make bright,
How would thy shadow's form form happy show
To the clear day with thy much clearer light,
When to unseeing eyes thy shade shines so!
How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made
By looking on thee in the living day,
When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade
Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.
Significance: This type of poems make the reader more understand and have rhythm in 14 words.

6. Odes:

Definition: Poems that write to thank or say good about someone.
Example: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk.

Significance: The writers idol someone and so they want to write about that person.

7. Elegies:
Definition: Poems about the person who is dead.
Example: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Significance: The writers miss that person and feel sorry for the lost of that person so they write elegies.

8. Free verse:
Definition: Poems that write in a freedom way.
Example: My last night as a full-time child
I didn't want to sleep, for fear of
Waking up in a rustle of too-crisp sheets
And a creak of inadequate bedsprings
With a lightly snoring virtual stranger eight feet away.
And also I didn't want it to be tomorrow,
Because then it would be time to do what
I've denied for three weeks of subsistence
And oblivion--ignoring is bliss.
And I saw everything I never did
Lying around me, pieces and steps of the
Success I never got, reminders that
Whatever I planned, I never got far.
But in the middle of these broken promises
To myself, I could see for the first time
That I have not been broken.
And I must keep myself, all that is real,
As daybreak does, and nightfall.
I exist to others, but all I need is me.
I will be the last promise, when all is said
And kept.

Significance: Free verse is cool because the writer can write whatever they want and don't have to be like stick in rules.

Sunday 1 May 2011

17. Assonance
Definition: The repeat of sound in the middle of the sentence.
Example: Free to see the tree.
Significance: It is hard to find the words to fit in the assonance, but the sound repeat is really funny.

18. Onomatopoeia:
Definition: Word that describe sounds.
Example: The dog barks ruff ruff.
Significance: Onomatopoeia can also use to describe the affect of something like sound of the door.

19. Symbol:
Definition: Something that visible represent the invisible thing inside.
Example: Bald Eagle is a symbol of United States.
Significance: Symbol help the poets to try to talk about that thing but they do not want to say that straight.

20. Line
Definition: A sentence in a poem.
Example: I will love you forever.
Significance: Line help the reader to understand the meaning of the poem.


Saturday 23 April 2011

Poetry vocabs

12. Rhyme:
Definition: The sound that may similar to another sound.
Example: The frog jump onto the head of the dog.
Significance: When some word that have rhyme with another word will make the poem more interesting.

13. Couplet:

Definition: The couple lines of poem, same length and same rhyme.
Example: She's always there to listen if I'm ever feeling down.
               She's the woman I can turn for a smile, when I ever frown.
Significance: This kind of poem always has the same rhyme words at the end.

14. Elegy:
 Definition: Poem for someone just died.
Example:The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Significance: This type of poem is sad and for people that already dead.
15. Meter
Definition: Structure of verse or poem.
Example:
  • That time of year thou mayst in me behold
  • Tell me not in mournful numbers
  • Breakbreakbreak/ On thy cold gray stones, O Sea!
Significance: Meter is to bring tones to the poem.

16. Alliteration:

Definition: To repeat the first sound of the word.
Example: Lucky lies laughing like a loonatic.
Significance: Add tone and make the reader see it is more funny.



Tuesday 19 April 2011

Poetry vocabs

10. Personification:
Definition: To make something become some one, try to say something is someone.
Example:                                        "Ah, William, we're weary of weather,"
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
"Our traveling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?"
They arranged themselves at the window
and counted the steps of the sun,
and they both took root in the carpet
where the topaz tortoises run. 
Significance: When you hate someone or think that person's action look like something, you are using personification to describe them.

11. Rhythm:
Definition: To repeat the sound or movement over again.
Example: Well I gotta go now.
Okay, see you later.
Sure, pal. So long.
See you. Take care.
Bye bye.
Bye bye.
Significance: Your poem would be better if you have rhythm in there.


Sunday 10 April 2011

First Assignment

2. Imagery:
Definition: Ability to form mental image or things.
Example: Let us go then, you and I, 
When the evening is spread out against the sky 
Like a patient etherised upon a table; 
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 
The muttering retreats 
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
Significance: Imagery can make you have more ideas to write your poem.

3. Stanza:

Definition: Many lines of words make a poem.
Example: Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Significance: Stanza divides into many groups which make the reader understand more about the poem.

4. Metaphor:
Definition: Word to describe someone or something without say it straight.
Example:                                                           On the wall,
there is a shadow
of a branch outside.

It moves and it is dancing.

It writes its story
and the ink
is living light.

Significance: Metaphor can make the reader think what the poem is trying to say, make reader think really hard.

5. Extended metaphor:
Definition: Metaphor that been extended by poem ( right poem using metaphor)
Example: Your parents is like high mountains and ocean to you.
Significance: Extended metaphor can make the poem is more interesting and readers think it's cooler.

6. Simile:
Definition: You compare one thing with another thing.
Example: Lazy boy sleep too much just like a sloth.
Significance: Simile can make readers understand easily by comparing.

7. Interpretation:
Definition: To explain something that is not obvious.
Example: Now for the long years when I could not love you,
I bring in recompense this gift of yearning-
A luminous vase uplifted to the sun,
Blue with the shadows of near-twilight.
Here in its full round symmetry of darkness,
Burning with swift curved flashes bright as tears,
I lift it to the lonely lips that knew
Its slow creation, and thw wheel of sorrow turning.
Take it with hands like faded petals,
White as the moonlight of our garden;
And for the long years when I could not love you
Drink from its amber-coloured night.

Significance: To explain what you trying to say in you writing or poem.

8. Tone
Definition: The quality of something (art, poem, song)
Example: There's a patch of old snow in a corner,

That I should have guessed




Was a blow-away paper the rain




Had brought to rest.




 




It is specked with grime as if




Small print overspread it.




The news of a day I've forgotten --




If I ever read it.



Significance: Poem need tones to make reader can get more interesting.

9. Speaker:
Definition: The person who express feeling by speaking.
Example:Don't listen to me; my heart's been broken.
I don't see anything objectively.

I know myself; I've learned to hear like a psychiatrist.
When I speak passionately,
That's when I'm least to be trusted.

It's very sad, really: all my life I've been praised
For my intelligence, my powers of language, of insight-
In the end they're wasted-

I never see myself.
Standing on the front steps. Holding my sisters hand.
That's why I can't account
For the bruises on her arm where the sleeve ends . . .

In my own mind, I'm invisible: that's why I'm dangerous.
People like me, who seem selfless.
We're the cripples, the liars:
We're the ones who should be factored out
In the interest of truth.

When I'm quiet, that's when the truth emerges.
A clear sky, the clouds like white fibers.
Underneath, a little gray house. The azaleas
Red and bright pink.

If you want the truth, you have to close yourself
To the older sister, block her out:
When I living thing is hurt like that
In its deepest workings,
All function is altered.

That's why I'm not to be trusted.
Because a wound to the heart
Is also a wound to the mind. 

Significance: You need a person to read out loud about the poem so it's more interesting. 



Saturday 9 April 2011

About Poetry
















Definition: A kind of writing way to express your feeling or trying to show someone about something, you can say that is an art of writing, it can make people feel like they are flying, they are in love.
Example: What can I do to make you mine
               Falling so hard, so fast this time
               What did I say, what did you do
               How did I fall in love with you?
Significance: Poetry should be read when you are really in it, when you had a feel of it.