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Philippine Literature - Poetry
This document defines and describes various forms of poetry. It discusses narrative poetry like epics and ballads, as well as lyric poetry such as odes and songs. It provides characteristics and examples for each form. Couplets, tercets and quatrains are described as basic stanza structures. Diction, tone and common themes in poetry are also outlined. The document serves as an introduction to different types of poetry and their features.
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Philippine Literature - Poetry
- 1. PoetryEnglish 7 –SY: 2011-2012
- 2. - A termapplied to the many forms in which human beings have given rhythmic expression to their most imaginative and intense perceptions of the world, themselves, and the relation of the two.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 3. - Deals withemotions as they are aroused by some scene, experience, attachment; often rich in sentiment and passion; imaginative.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 4. - The language ofthe imagination, almost entirely figurative, and also a musical literary language.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 5. Forms:Couplet- Two linesof verse with similar end-rhymes.
- 6. - A two-linestanza with both grammatical structure and idea complete within itself.Sample:More relative than this. The play’s the thingWherein I’ll catch the conscience of the King.
- 7. Tercet- A tripletin which each line ends with the same rhyme.
- 8. Sample:When as insilks my Julia goes,Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flowsThe liquefaction of her clothes.
- 9. Quatrain- A stanzaof four lines.
- 10. - A completepoem consisting of four lines only: any one of many four-line stanza forms.
- 11. - The possiblerhyme schemes vary from an unrhymed quatrain to almost any arrangement of one-rhyme, two-rhyme, or three-rhyme lines (abab, aabb,abba, aaba, abcb).
- 12. Diction- Choice ofwords is of great importance in poetry.
- 13. - Words orcombinations of words are painstakingly chosen by the poet for their exactness as well as suggestiveness.
- 14. - The connotativevalue of a word is particularly important to the poet.
- 15. Tone- The attitudeof the poet or the persona or the speaker in the poem.
- 16. - The toneof voice varies according to the emotional state of the speaker.
- 17. - In orderto identify tone in poetry, one should be sensitive to the inner state of the speaker.
- 18. The usual themesin poetry are love, death, brotherhood, inhumanity, loneliness, and joy.Poetry can do the following:
- 19. 1. Move an individualto tears or laughter.2. Stir the insights of the readers.3. Stimulate the imagination of the reader.
- 20. 4. Lift the burdenof a heavy heart.5. Ease and relax tension in a troubled world.
- 21. A. NarrativeEnglish 7– SY: 2011-2012
- 22. - A nondramaticpoem that tells a story or presents a narrative, whether simple or complex, long or short. Epics, ballads, Metrical romances are among the many kinds of narrative poems.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 23. a. Metrical Tale:Aseries of events or facts told or presented based on the metric system as a standard of measurement.- Tendencies of romanticism in its freedom of technique and its preference for remote settings as well as its essential qualities.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 24. Sample text:Edmund andHelenCome, sit thee by me, love, and thou shalt hearA tale may win a smile and claim a tear-A plan and simple story, told in rhyme,As sang the minstrels of the olden time.No idle Muse I'll needlessly invoke-No patron's aid to steer me from the rockOf cold neglect round which oblivion lies;But loved one, I will look into thine eyes,From which young poesy first touched my soul,English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 25. And bade the burning wordsin numbers roll;--They were the light in which I learned to sing;And still to thee will kindling fancy cling-Glow at thy smile, as when, in younger years,I've seen thee smiling through thy maiden tears,Like a fair floweret bent with morning dew;While sunbeams kissed its leaves of loveliest hue.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 26. b. Epic:A storyabout heroic deeds of an individual written in verse.
- 27. - Epics withoutcertain authorship are called Folk Epics.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 28. Characteristics of anEpicEnglish 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 29. HERO - afigure of imposing stature, of national or international importance, and of great history or legendary significance.
- 30. SETTING - vast,covering great nations, the world, or the universe.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 31. SUPERNATURAL FORCES –gods, angels, and demons – interest themselves in the action and intervene from time to time.
- 32. STYLE – sustainedelevation and grand simplicity is used.
- 33. ACTION – consistsof deeds of great valor or requiring superhuman courageEnglish 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 34. Sample Text:The Epicof LabawDonggonEnglish 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 35. 1The BirthOdoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyLet usnarrate with careTake note much in detailAll about LabawDonggonWho was born in the wombOf AnggoyAlunsina.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 36. BuyungLabawDonggonNot long afterhe was delivered,Hardly noticed by anyoneBecame a mature person,A sturdy young man.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 37. 2Wooing of AbyangGinbitinanOdoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyLabawDongonsaidTo his respected parentsAbyangAlunsina.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 38. “Open, please openThegreat wooden chestWhose heavy coverIs elaborately carved.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 39. Then select fromthereVery carefullyMy treasured possessions andMy fine clothes.”English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 40. Ballad- Oneof theearliest forms of literature.The narration of a story in poetry form.
- 41. Form of verseto be sung or recited and characterized by its presentation of a dramatic or exciting episode in simple narrative form.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 42. - Essentially a narrativepoem originally intended to be sung.- The traditional ballad consists of four lines with an abcb rhyme scheme and may employ a refrain.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 43. Characteristics of Ballad:Thesupernatural is likely to play an important part in events.
- 44. Physical courage andlove are frequent themes.
- 45. Slight attention ispaid to characterization/description.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 46.
- 47. Action is largelydeveloped through dialogue.
- 48. Tragic situations arepresented with the utmost simplicity.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 49. The Mermaidby AuthorUnknown'Twas Friday morn when we set sail, And we had not got far from land, When the Captain, he spied a lovely mermaid, With a comb and a glass in her hand.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 50. Chorus Oh the oceanwaves may roll, And the stormy winds may blow, While we poor sailors go skipping aloft And the land lubbers lay down below, below, below And the land lubbers lay down below.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 51. Then up spokethe Captain of our gallant ship, And a jolly old Captain was he; "I have a wife in Salem town, But tonight a widow she will be."English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 52. Lyric:English 7 –SY: 2011-2012
- 53. - A brief subjectivepoem strongly marked by imagination, melody, and emotion, and creating a single, unified impression.- (GREEK) Expression of the emotion of a single singer accompanied by a lyre.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 54. - “Choric” – versesthat were the expression of a group and were sung by a chorus.- Individual and personal emotion of the poet still holds.- Most broadly inclusive of all the various types of verse.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 55. Ode:- A single, unifiedstrain of exalted lyrical verse, directed to a single purpose, and dealing with one theme.- Connotes certain qualities of both manner and form.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 56. - An elaborate lyric,expressed in language dignified, sincere, and imaginative and intellectual in tone.- No definite pattern.- Each is distinguished by its subject matter.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 57. - The elegy dwellson death and the sorrow that comes with the contemplation of loss.- Addresses an object in lofty terms.- More complicated than most of the lyric types.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 58. Sample Text:Ode toMy AngelMichael Flores Fly me to your heavenly garden of peaceWith your pure and perfect pallid wingsCarry me to my fairest hopes and dreamsAnd put my feet up on your red rose’s bed.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012
- 59. Bless my morningswith your comforting touchAnd feed me with your sweetest smilesI’ll drink your tears to heal my painsAnd live with you forevermore.English 7 – SY: 2011-2012