2. Characterized by
the belief that man
is inherently good, a
pride in
nationalism, and a
focus on
individuality,
emotions over logic.
3. REMEMBER:
INTRODUCTORY POEM TO MILTON
"And did those feet in ancient time," Romantic
Walk upon Englands mountains
green: Man is an
"And was the holy Lamb of God," individual
On Englands pleasant pastures seen
"And did the Countenance Divine,"
Shine forth upon our clouded hills?
"And was Jerusalem builded here,"
Among these dark Satanic Mills?
William Blake
4. The most popular
Ballads tell a story and ballad form is the four-
are considered a form of line stanza in which the
narrative poetry. They first and third lines are
are often used in songs written in iambic
and have a very musical tetrameter (four iambs)
quality to them. and the second and
fourth are written in
iambic trimeter (three
iambs), with a rhyme
scheme of ABAB (the
third line doesn’t
necessarily have to
rhyme with A)
5. THE BALLAD OF THE
CARS REMEMBER:
"Now this is the price of a stirrup-cup,"
The kneeling doctor said.
Ballads tell a story just like
And syne he bade them take him up, ballerinas do.
For he saw that the man was dead.
They took him up, and they laid him down
( And, oh, he did not stir ),
And they had him into the nearest town
To wait the Coroner.
They drew the dead-cloth over the face,
They closed the doors upon,
And the cars that were parked in the market-
place
Made talk of it anon.
Rudyard Kipling
6. Couplets are any two lines working as a unit,
they may comprise a single stanza or may be
part of a larger stanza.
Most couplets rhyme (aa), but they do not have
to.
Heroic Couplet- two lines of iambic
pentameter, also the last two lines of the
English sonnet.
Alexandrine Couplet- an alexandrine couplet is
two rhymed lines iambic hexameter.
7. HEROIC
O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream
My great example, as it is my theme!
Though deep yet clear, though gentle yet not
dull;
Strong without rage, without o'erflowing full.
-From Cooper’s Hill by John Denham
Remember:
Couplets as couples.
8. Shakespearean Petrarchan
Has fourteen lines Has Fourteen lines
and is written in and is written in
iambic pentameter iambic pentameter
Three quatrains and a Composed of an
couplet octave and a sestet
Rhyme scheme is Rhyme scheme is
abab, cdcd, efef, gg abbaabba, cdecde or
cdcdcd
9. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? In what bright realm, what sphere of radiant
thought
Thou art more lovely and more Did Nature find the model whence she drew
temperate: That delicate dazzling image where we view
Rough winds do shake the darling buds Here on this earth what she in heaven
wrought?
of May, What fountain-haunting nymph, what dryad,
And summer's lease hath all too short a sought
date: In groves, such golden tresses ever threw
Upon the gust? What heart such virtues
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven knew?—
shines Though her chief virtue with my death is
and often is his gold complexion frought.
He looks in vain for heavenly beauty, he
dimmed; Who never looked upon her perfect eyes,
And every fair from fair sometimes The vivid blue orbs turning brilliantly –
declines, He does not know how Love yields and
denies;
By chance or nature's changing course He only knows, who knows how sweetly she
untrimmed; Can talk and laugh, the sweetness of her sighs.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade, - Translation of Petrarch, Sonnet 159
Nor lose possession of that fair thou
ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in
his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou
grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can
10. an elaborately Remember:
structured poem Extraodedinary
praising or glorifying
an event or
individual, describing
nature intellectually
as well as emotionally
11. In December, the knife
sinks
unabated, into living flesh,
the tomato red
viscera
invades a cool
the kitchen, sun,
it enters at lunchtime, profound,
inexhaustible,
takes populates the salads
its ease of Chile,
happily, it is wed
on countertops, to the clear onion,
among glasses, and to celebrate the union
butter dishes, we
pour
blue saltcellars. oil,
It sheds - Excerpt from Ode to
its own light, Tomatoes
By Pablo Neruda
benign majesty.
Unfortunately, we
must
murder it:
12. Free verse requires no Free is Free!
meter, rhyme. Or
other poetic
techniques.
13. BUTTERFLY
I am a Butterfly.
I am one of the most beautiful insects
of the world.
I eat nectar, but
I don't harm the flowers.
I have many enemies.
I wander through the forests playing
with all my butterfly friends.
Their names are; Hippy, Dippy, Hopi,
and Floppy.
I can't forget my best friends.
Poppy and Moppy.
But do you know who really are my
best friends?
Could you try to guess?
I think you might have a good idea.
YOU!
I like how you like to be you and not
somebody who you aren't.
14. NARRATIVE
narrative poem is one that tells a story. It follows a similar structure as that for a
short story or novel. There is a beginning, a middle and an end, as well as the
usual literary devices such as character and plot.
usually contains a series of rhyming couplets (ABAB). It can also contain any of
the usual literary devices: alliteration, assonance, consonance, repetition, and
so on
Remember:
Narrator tells a story
15. Ex. Narrative poem
Here is an excerpt from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.”
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak
and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping,
suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently
rapping, rapping at my chamber door.`'Tis some visitor,'
I muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -Only this,
and nothing more
16. A lyric poem is a relatively short, non-narrative poem that expresses
emotions or personal feelings. A lyric can be an ode or even a sonnet, but
does not have to be set to music.
The lyric poet addresses the reader directly, portraying his or her own
feeling, state of mind, and perceptions.
Remember :
song lyrics demonstrate emotion
17. To an Athlete Dying Young
by A. E. Housman
The time you won your town the race
We chaired you through the market-place;
Man and boy stood cheering by,
And home we brought you shoulder-high.
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town
18. Metaphysical poems are lyrical poems usually containing intense meditations,
characterized by striking use of wit, irony, and play on words. Underneath the formal
structure is the underlying structure of the poet's argument.
Often depicts struggle between opposites
May feature short, aggressive meters
Less concerned with expressing feeling than with analyzing it, Metaphysical poetry is
marked by bold and ingenious conceits
(e.g., metaphors drawing sometimes forced parallels between apparently dissimilar
ideas or things), complex and subtle thought, frequent use of paradox, and a dramatic
directness of language
Remember: “physical”
demonstrating conflicts or arguments
19. THE FLEA.
by John Donne
MARK but this flea, and mark in this,
How little that which thou deniest me is ;
It suck'd me first, and now sucks thee,
And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
Thou know'st that this cannot be said
A sin, nor shame, nor loss of maidenhead ;
Yet this enjoys before it woo,
And pamper'd swells with one blood made of
two.
20. LIMERICK POEM
A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are
often funny or nonsensical.
The last words of the first, second, and fifth lines
all rhyme with each other. The rhyme scheme is
AABBA.
Example: rhythm stick
21. EXAMPLE
There once was a young girl named Jill.
Who was scared by the sight of a drill.
She brushed every day
So her dentist would say,
“Your teeth are so perfect; no bill.”
22. A dramatic monologue is a literary form,
usually a poem, in which you have one
person, speaking to an audience or "thinking
aloud," who is clearly a character and not the
poet.
Prologue: an introduction to a play or poem.
drama: an episode that is turbulent or highly
emotional.
23. He didn’t move; the digging still went on;
Men stooped and shoveled; someone gave a grunt,
And moaned and died with agony in the sludge.
Then the long hiss of shells lifted and stopped.
He stared into the gloom; a rocket curved,
And rifles rattled angrily on the left
Down by the wood, and there was noise of bombs.
Then the damned English loomed in scrambling haste
Out of the dark and struggled through the wire,
And there was shouts and curses; someone screamed
And men began to blunder down the trench
Without their rifles. It was time to go:
He grabbed his coat; stood up, gulping some bread;
Then clutched his head and fell.
I found him there
In the gray morning when the place was held.
His face was in the mud; one arm flung out
As when he crumpled up; his sturdy legs
Were bent towards his trunk; heels to the sky.
24. An elegy poem is a poem that is written
on the occasion of or about someone's
death.
an elaborately formal lyric poem
lamenting the death of a friend or public
figure
Remember: elegy is like empty. Sorrow.
25. Joachims Du Bellay's "Elegy on His Cat”
I have not lost my rings, my purse,
My gold, my gems-my loss is worse,
One that the stoutest heart must move.
My pet, my joy, my little love,
My tiny kitten, my Belaud,
I lost, alas, three days ago
26. Blank verse is a verse that does not rhyme, but it still has a regular
meter.
Blank Verse is Poetry that is written in unrhymed iambic pentameter
'Iambic pentameter' simply means that each normal line has ten
syllables, five of them stressed, and that the rhythm is biased towards a
pattern in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed one.
Remember:
It’s blank,
can’t think of rhyme.
27. The Ball Poem
by
John Berryman
What is the boy now, who has lost his ball,
What, what is he to do? I saw it go
Merrily bouncing, down the street, and then
Merrily over-there it is in the water!
