poetry: reading, responding, writing

Question 1

poetry: definitions

Answer 1

1: ‘patterned arrangement of language’ 2: generate ‘rhythm’ and thereby both 3: express and evoke specific ‘emotions’ or ‘ feelings’ in 4: a concentrated way or with intensity

Question 2

prose poem

Answer 2

poem that uses all the strategies and tactics of poetry save the line break

Question 3

poetic subgenres and kinds

Answer 3

• poems can be classified into subgenres based on
  various characteristics, including their length,
  appearance and formal features, subject in every type
  of situation and setting
• three broad catgeories:
  1. narrative: have plot + narrator
  2. dramatic: have plot but no narrator; can also mean
     plays
  3. lyric: lack plot