About Poetry

 

Writing about poetry helps both the reading and the responding process.

 

Responding: Remembering and Reflecting.

 

Poetry makes you more articulate and more sensitive to both ideas and feelings. More importantly, it makes you a better reader of texts and a precise writer yourself.

 

 

Half rhyme: not complete rhymes. This is a complete rhyme [May- Fay] this is a half rhyme [bader- bedoor]

 

Types of Poems

Sonnets: is a fixed verse form consisting of 14 lines.

            -Italian Sonnet:  a sonnet form that divides the poem, into one section of eight lines and a second section of six lines, usually following the abbaabba cdecde rhyme scheme. It has a generalization and a particular instance.

            -English Sonnet: a sonnet form that divides the poem into 3 sections of quatrains [a verse with 4 lines] then a couplet [a verse with 2 lines]. It is usually in this rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef gg.

 

Ode: A lyric poem of some length, usually of a serious or meditative nature and having an elevated style and formal stanza-ic structure. In other words, this is a long poem with rhymes. It normally talks about a natural subject like animals.

 

Elegy: this is a mournful poem; a lament for the dead. It talks about a death.

 

Lyric: this is a poem that gives off a strong emotion or intense feeling.

 

Pastoral: Country poem with subjects of Shepard.

 

 

 

Time Line

 

500 B.C.E à 600 C.E CLASSICAL

Greek and Romans

 

600 C.E à 1300 C.E MIDDLE AGES / MEDIEVAL

Europe entirely

 

14th C.E à 16th C.E RENAISSANCE / REBIRTH

Italy

 

17th C.E à 18th C.E NEO-CLASSICAL / ORDER AND REASON

Germany, France and England

 

18th C.E à 19th C.E ROMANTIC / GENERAL FEELINGS

England

 

19th C.E à 20th VICTORIAN / INDUSTRIALIZATION

British Empire

 

20th C.E à 21st C.E MODERN / NO RHYME, NO PLOT