This document defines and provides examples of different types of poetry including narrative poetry, epic poetry, ballads, lyric poetry, dramatic poetry, sonnets, songs, and odes. It discusses key elements and characteristics of each type such as their structure, themes, and historical examples. Major poetry types covered are narratives, epics, ballads, lyrics, sonnets, songs, odes, elegies, dramatic monologues, and soliloquies. Famous works given as examples include works by Homer, Virgil, Milton, Keats, Dylan Thomas, and Shakespeare.

2. 1. Narrative Poetry
2.Lyric Poetry
3. Dramatic Poetry

3. A form of poem that tells a series of
events using poetic devices.
Character, setting, conflict, and
plot are some important elements
of narrative poetry.

4. 1. Epic
2. Metrical Romance
3. Metrical Tale
4. Ballad

5. A long, unified, narrative poem,
recounting in dignified language in
adventures of a warrior, a king, or a
god.

6. 1. The main character or protagonist is
heroically larger than life, often the
source and subject of legend or a
national hero.

7. 2. The deed of the hero are presented
without favouritism, revealing his
failings as well as his virtues.
3. The action often in battle reveals more-
than-human strength of the heroes as
they engage in acts of heroism and
courage.

8. 4. The setting covers several nations, the
whole world, or even the universe.
5. The episodes, even though they may be
fictional, provide an explanation for
some of the circumstances or events in
the history of a nation or people.

9. 6. The gods and lesser divinities play an
active role in the outcome of actions
7. All of the various adventures from an
organic whole where each event
relates in some way to the central
theme.

11. Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
Aeneid by Virgil
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Beowulf
Biag ni Lam-ang

12. Recounts the quest
undertaken by a single knight
in order to gain a lady’s favor.

13. A simple straightforward story in
verse.
Narrates strange happenings in a
direct manner, without detailed
descriptions of character.

15.  A narrative poem which
is meant to be sung.

16.  The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner by
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge

17. Any fairly short poem consisting of
the utterance by a single speaker
who expresses a state of mind or a
process of perception, thought and
feeling.

18. 1. Ode
2. Elegy
3. Sonnet
4. Song
5. Simple Lyric

19.  A dignified and elaborately structured
lyric poem praising and glorifying an
individual, commemorating an event, or
describing nature intellectually rather
than emotionally.

20. Ode To Autumn - Poem by John Keats
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the mossed cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimmed their clammy cell.

21. A lyric poem written in elegiac
couplets, that expresses sorrow or
lamentation, usually for one who
has died.

22. ELEGY by Dylan Thomas
Too proud to die; broken and blind he died
The darkest way, and did not turn away,
A cold kind man brave in his narrow pride
On that darkest day, Oh, forever may
He lie lightly, at last, on the last, crossed
Hill, under the grass, in love, and there grow
Young among the long flocks, and never lie lost
Or still all the numberless days of his death, though
Above all he longed for his mother's breast

23.  “little song”
A short poem with fourteen
lines, usually written in
iambic pentameter.

24.  Italian/Petrarchan Sonnet
 Spenserian Sonnet
 English/Shakesperean Sonnet

25. Also called as Petrarchan
Sonnet.
Has two stanzas: an octave and a
sestet.

26. There are three basic Italian
Sonnet Forms;
1. Italian
2. Sicilian
3. Sonetto Rispetto

27.  ITALIAN has a rhyming scheme of abbaabba
 SICILIAN OCTAVE - an Italian stanza or poem
having eight lines of 11 syllables rhyming
abbacddc
 OTTAVA RIMA - a form of poetry consisting of
stanzas of eight lines of ten or eleven syllables,
rhyming abababcc.

28.  The Italian sestet consists of two
tercets (of 3 lines) with the rhyme
scheme d-e-f-d-e-f
 The Sicilian Sestet has a rhyme
scheme of e-f-e-f-e-f

29.  Developed by Edmund
Spenser
 has three quatrains and
a heroic couplet, an
iambic pentameter with
rhymes
abab bcbc cdcd ee.

30.  Developed by William
Shakespeare
 Has three quatrains and a
heroic couplet, in iambic
pentameter with rhymes
abab cdcd efef gg

31.  a short lyric or narrative text set to
music. The music often reproduces
the mood and heightened
emotional expression to the song’s
text.

32.  any short simple poem expressing
the writer’s response to any
ordinary thing which provokes a
certain deep feeling or emotion.

33. Western Wind
Western wind, when will thou blow,
The small rain down can rain?
Christ if my love were in my arms
And I in my bed again!

34. Any poetry that uses discourse of
the characters involved to tell a
story or portray a situation.
Meant to be performed in an
audience.

35. 1. Dramatic monologue
2. Soliloquy

36.  a literary device used when a
character reveals his/her innermost
thoughts and feelings that are
hidden throughout the course of
the story line.

37.  act of speaking while alone,
especially when used as a theatrical
device that allows a character’s
thoughts and ideas to be conveyed
to the audience.