Poetry terms Flashcards
Ballad
modern: signifies an emotive song that usually involves large production and projection
folklore: a song that tells a story
poetry: ballad verse-form = simple AB,AB rhyme structure with simple rhythms. Associated with oral culture and carried little cultural prestige.
Classical and neo-classical
movements that believe all writing or art should imitate precedent and genres created by the writers or artist of the classical civilisation of Greece and Rome. GB late 17-early 18th century was dominated by this
Effusion
Spontaneous expression. Concept valued by the Romantic poets
Elegy
Poem lamenting a dead person or persons
Elegiac
mournful or conveying loss
Elegiac derivation
Derives from elegy genre
Epic
Long poem concerned with large events of conflict. Frequently seen as displaying and testing the values of the civilisation that produced it. Has high cultural prestige
Epithalamium
poem celebrating a wedding
mock-epic
poem employing the devices of an epic to create a parody of the epic’s grandeur.
Ode
Lyric address, originally sung to music
pastoral
idealised depiction of rural life, sometimes set in ‘Arcadia’, an eden-like land
romantic
applied to movements from the late 18th century onwards who valued feelings above thought and originality above derivation
sonnet
generally refers to a 114-line poem with a strict rhyme scheme
petrarchan sonnets
usually have an ABBA, ABBA, and either CDECDE or CDCCDC or CDCDCD
Shakespearean sonnets (post-1600)
end with a couplet: ABAB, CDCD, EFEF, GG
