TYPES OF POETRY

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is a form that describes important events in life either real or imaginary.

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Narrative poetry

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extended narrative about heroic exploits under supernatural control. It may deal with heroes and gods.

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Epic

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is a narrative which is written in verse and can be classified either as a ballad of a metrical romance.

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Metrical Tale

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are considered the shortest and simplest of the narrative poems. They have simple structures and tell of a single incident.

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Ballads

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refers to poetry meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a lyre, but now applies to any type of poetry that expresses emotions and feelings of the poet. It’ is usually short, simple and easy to understand.

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Lyric Poetry

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are short poems intended to be sung. The common theme is love, despair, grief, doubt, joy, hope and sorrow.

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Folksongs (Awiting bayan)

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are lyric poems of 14 liner dealing with an emotion, a feeling or an idea.

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Sonnets

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is a lyric poem which expresses feelings of grief and melancholy and whose…. Theme is death.

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Elegy

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is a poem of a noble feeling, expressed with dignity, with no definite number of syllables or definite number of lines in a stanza.

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Ode

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song praising God or the saints and contains a philosophy of life.

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Psalm (Dalit)

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has a measure of twelve syllables and slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or bandurria, An example of this is Florante and Laura

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Song (Awit)

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have measures of sight syllables and recited to a martial beat. An example of this is ibong adarna

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Corridos (Kuridos)

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comes from the Greek term “komos” meaning festivity and revelry. It is usually light and is written with the purpose of amusing people and usually has a happy ending.

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Comedy

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is usually used in musical plays with the opera. It arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character. This is related to, tragedy.

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Melodrama

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involves the hero struggling mightily against dynamic forces, he meats death or ruin without success and satisfaction obtained by the protagonist in a comedy.

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Tragedy

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is an exaggerated comedy. It seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines; situations are too ridiculous to be true; the characters seem to be caricatures and the motives undignified and absurd.

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Farce

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are forms either purely comic or tragic and picture the life of today. They may aim to bring about changes in the social conditions.

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Social Poems

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are statements or questions or phrases having double or veiled meanings, put forth as puzzles to be solved.

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Riddles

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also called a byword or nayword, is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity. It is often metaphorical. It describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim.

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Proverb (from the Latin word proverbium),