Lecture 3 Flashcards
It is one of the genres of literature.
Poetry
Five things to remember about poetry:
Poems use few words to express the emotions, and thoughts of poets. In understanding poetry, one must know the use of its language. According to Abad, poetry is a special use of language by which language transcends itself.
Poetry is a concentrated thought
Five things to remember about poetry:
To fully enjoy poetry, one must read it aloud. In this way, the reader will be able to hear the use of words as it creates music. Also, the use of rhythm in poetry lets its meaning more comprehensible. Lacia and Gonong (2003) said that for the poet to convey ideas, he chooses and organizes his words into a pattern of sound that is part of the total meaning.
Poetry is a kind of word-music.
Five things to remember about poetry:
With use of language, poets help readers to use their sense. They let readers smell the fragrant flower, see the blue skies, hear the singing birds, feel the cold wind and taste the sweet mangoes.
The poet, as someone has said, does not speak the accurate language of science, does not, for example, refer to water as H2O but as “rippling,” a “mirror,” or “blue,” using not elements which compose water but the effect which water creates in his imaginative mind and wanting the reader to respond to “water” as physical fact rather than abstract concept.
Poetry expresses all the senses.
Five things to remember about poetry:
Rhythm in poetry is essential for readers to fully enjoy. In reading aloud, rhythm makes the poem more pleasing to the ears. Also, Baritugo said that a poem beats time simply and strongly; therefore, we need only respond to it with our own natural rhythm.
Poetry answers our demand for rhythm.
Five things to remember about poetry:
Abad said that the poem after all, for poet and reader, is work of imagination. (Gulle, 2003, p.11) There are other readers find poetry difficult. The moment that the reader fails to imagine the images in the poem then it will hard for him to understand it. According to Lewis (1961) the image is a picture in words which one must serve a purpose in a poem. In addition, Dimalanta explained that effective imagery radiating from a given metaphorical center that is the core of the poem’s body.
Poetry is observation plus imagination.
These are the other things that you need to know in reading poetry according to Tan (2001):
- a poem differs from prose work in that it is to be read slowly, carefully, and attentively.
- a poem recreates an experience.
- the subject matter of poetry can be found in everything that interests the human mind.
- a poem presents a dramatic situation.
Type of Poetry:
This refers to that kind of poetry meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre, but now, this applies to any type of poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet. They are usually short, simple and easy to understand.
Lyric Poetry
Type of Poetry:
It is described by Sialogo (2007) as descriptive or expository in nature where the poet is concerned mainly with presenting a scene in words, conveying sensory richness of his subject, or the revelation of ideas or emotions. Then, Holman (1992) defined it as a brief subjective poem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion and creating for the reader a single unified impression.
Lyric Poetry
______ is a poetry that deals with the personal feeling of the poet. It is a subjective expression of man’s passion and emotion in artistic and musical language.
Lyric poetry
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
- A lyric porm in a regular metrical pattern set to music. These have twelve syllables (dodecasyllabic) and slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or banduria.
-This is adapted to musical expression. ________ lyrics are usually short, simple sensuous, emotional - perhaps the most spontaneous lyric form.
Song
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
This is a lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief and melancholy, and whose theme is death.
A sustained and formal poem setting forth the poet’s meditations upon death or another solemn theme.
Elegy
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
A lyric poem of fourteen lines, highly arbitrary in form and following one or another of several set rhyme-schemes.
A lyric poem containing fourteen iambic lines, and a complicated rhyme.
Sonnet
Rhyme schemes in Sonnets:
ababcdcdefefgg
Shakesperian sonnet
Rhyme schemes in Sonnets:
abbaabba (cde,cde) (cdc,cdc) (cd,cd,cd)
Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
In manner, the __________ is an elaborate lyric, expressed in language dignified, sincere, and imaginative and intellectual in tone. (Holman, 1992, p. 363)
A lyric poem of some length serious in subject in dignified style. It is most majestic of the lyric poems. It is written in a spirit of praise of some persons or things.
ode
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
This is a song praising God or the Virgin Mary and containing a philosophy of life.
Psalm
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
A lyric poem expressing religious emotion and generally intended to be sung by a chorus.
Hymn
Kinds of Lyric Poetry:
Pastoral and descriptive elements are usually the first requisites of the idyll, although the pastoral element is usually presented in a conscious literary manner.
Idyll
This type of poetry tells a story in verse. It is a nondramatic poem which tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short.
Narrative Poetry
This form describes important events in life either real or imaginary. It is an objective narration in verse. It is a poem that tells a story, recounts an event or narrates an episode in the life of another person.
Narrative Poetry
Kinds of Narrative Poems:
A long narrative poem of the largest proportions. A tale centering about a hero concerning the beginning, continuance, and the end of events of great significance. This is an extended narrative about heroic exploits often under supernatural control. It may deal with heroes and gods.
Epic
Holman (1992) classifies epic as ______ and _____.
Folk epic and Art epic.
Epics without certain authorship are called _________, whether the scholar believes in a folk or a single authorship theory of origins.
folk epics
________ is a term sometimes employed to distinguish such an epic as Milton’s Paradise Lost or Virgil’s Aenied from so called folk epics such as Beowulf, the Nibelungenlied, and the Iliad and Odyssey.
Art epic
