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Poetry
Poetry is piece of literature written by a poet in meter or verse expressing
various emotions which are expressed by the use of variety of different
techniques including metaphors, similes and onomatopoeia which are
explained in the above definitions and different examples. The emphasis on
the aesthetics of language and the use of different techniques such as
repetition, meter and rhyme are what are commonly used to distinguish
poetry from prose and explained in the above examples. Prose can be defined
as ordinary speech or writing without any metrical structure. Poems often
make heavy use of imagery and words association to quickly convey emotions.
Poetry in English and other modern European languages often use different
rhyme schemes and these techniques is most often seen in children's poems
such as Nursery Rhymes making them easy to remember. Other examples of
different types of poetry which use rhyme are limericks. Poets make use of
sound in different types of poetry by employing different kinds of techniques
called Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance and Euphony..
Types of poetry
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There are many types of poetry. Some common types are:-
Acrostic poetry
Elegy poetry
Epic poetry
Fable poetry
Lyric poetry
Narrative poetry
Light poetry
Speculative poetry

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Acrostic poetry
An acrostic is a poem or other form of writing in
which the first letter, syllable or word of each line,
paragraph or other recurring feature in the text
spells out a word or a message. As a form of
constrained writing, an acrostic can be used as a
mnemonic device to aid memory retrieval. Acrostics
are common in medieval literature, where they
usually serve to highlight the name of the poet or his
patron, or to make a prayer to a saint.. The Middle
High German poet Rudolf von Ems for example
Lewis Carroll

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opens all his great works with an acrostic of his
name, and his world chronicle marks the beginning
of each age with an acrostic of the key figure.
Some famous Acrostic poems:-
 A boat beneath a sunny sky – by lewis carroll
 Behold ,o god! – by William Browne
 Brodie castle – by James McIntyre
 Above the poets station –by Stephen strik
Elegy poetry
The Greek term elegeia originally referred to any
verse written in elegiac couplets and covering a wide
Thomas Gray

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range of subject matter (death, love, war). The term
also included epitaphs, sad and mournful songs, and
commemorative verses. The Latin elegy of ancient
Roman literature was most often erotic or
mythological in nature. Because of its structural
potential for rhetorical effects, the elegiac couplet
was also used by both Greek and Roman poets for
witty, humorous, and satiric subject matter.
Some elegypoems:-
 Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
 the Élégie, Op. 10, by Jules Massenet
 Elegy For Jane ,by Theodore Roethke
Epic poetry

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An epic poem, epic, epos is a lengthy narrative poem,
ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing
details of heroic deeds and events significant to a
culture or nation. The earliest works of Western
literature were fundamentally an oral poetic form.
These works form the basis of the epic genre in
Western literature. Nearly all Western epic (including
Virgil's Aeneid and Dante's Divine Comedy) self-
consciously presents itself as a continuation of the
tradition begun by these poems. Another type of epic
Robert Southey

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poetry is epyllion , which is a brief narrative poem
with a romantic or mythological theme.
Some epic poems:-
 The Taleof Kiều by Nguyễn Du (1800?)
 Thalabathe Destroyer by Robert Southey (1801)
 Madoc by Robert Southey (1805)
Fable poetry
Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in
prose or verse, that features animals, mythical
creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of
nature that are anthropomorphized (given human
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qualities, such as the ability to speak human
language) and that illustrates or leads to a particular
moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be
added explicitly as a pithy maxim. A fable differs
from a parable in that the latter excludes animals,
plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature as
actors that assume speech or other powers of
humankind.
Some famous fable poems:-
 Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
 Fairy Tales (1837) by Hans Christian Andersen
 Fables for Our Time (1940) by James Thurber
 99 Fables (1960) by William March
Lyric poetry

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Lyric poetry is a formal type of poetry which
expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically
spoken in the first person. The term derives from a
form of Ancient Greek literature, the lyric, which was
defined by its musical accompaniment, usually on a
stringed instrument known as a lyre. The term owes
its importance in literary theory to the division
developed by Aristotle between three broad
categories of poetry: lyrical, dramatic and epic.
Some famous lyric poems are:-
 Annabel lee – by edgar allan poe
 I wandered lonely as a cloud – by William wordsworth
William Wordsworth

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 A noiseless patient spider –by Walt Whitman
 The tiger – by William Blake
Narrative poetry
Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story,
often making use of the voices of a narrator and
characters as well; the entire story is usually written
in metered verse. Narrative poems do not have to
follow rhythmic patterns. The poems that make up
this genre may be short or long, and the story it
relates to may be complex. It is normally dramatic,
Lord Byron

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with objectives, diverse characters, and meter. Some
narrative poetry takes the forms of a novel in verse
shorter narrative poems are often similar in style to
the short story. Sometimes these short narratives are
collected into interrelated groups.
Some famous narrative poems:-
 Don Juan by Lord Byron
 The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats
 The Hunting of the Snark byLewisCarroll
 Lamia byJohn Keats
Light poetry
John Wilmot

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Light poetry, or light verse, is poetry that attempts to
be humorous. Poems considered "light" are usually
brief, and can be on a frivolous or serious subject,
and often feature word play, including puns,
adventurous rhyme and heavy alliteration. Typically,
light verse in English is formal verse, although a few
free verse poets, such as Billy Collins, have excelled
at light verse outside the formal verse tradition.
While light poetry is sometimes condemned as
doggerel, or thought of as poetry composed casually,
humor often makes a serious point in a subtle or
subversive way. Many of the most renowned
"serious" poets, such as Horace, Swift, Pope and
Auden, have also excelled at light verse.
Some famous light poems:-
 Obit dcccxxxiii – poem by lord Alfred Tennyson
 My light thou art – poem by lord john Wilmot
 Light breaks where no sun shines – poem by Dylan Thomas
 Light shining out of darkness – poem by William Cowper
Speculative poetry

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Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focuses on
fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is
also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is
distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized
by its subject matter, rather than by the poetry's form.
Suzette Haden Elgin defined the genre as "about a reality
that is in some way different from the existing reality. Due
to the similarity of subject matter, it is often published by
the same markets that publish short stories and novellas of
science fiction, fantasy and horror, and many authors write
both in speculative fiction and speculative poetry. The field
has one major award, the Rhysling Award, given annually to
a poem of more than fifty lines and to a sub-fifty lines
poem by the US-based Science Fiction Poetry Association.

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Some speculativepoems:-
 The Merry-Go-Round Inside By Ludden,Robert 
 GOLD By samuel,evrod 
 Forgetting the world outside the tent By Valbusa,Aaron 