The document outlines various types of poetry including lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry, with examples such as sonnets, elegies, and odes. Each type is characterized by specific structures, themes, and styles, highlighting their distinct qualities and purposes. Notable examples and excerpts from classical poems illustrate these categories, emphasizing the diversity and richness of poetic expression.

1. Types of poetry

2. LYRIC Narrative dramatic
Special
types
TYPES OF POETRY
SONNET
elegy
ode
epic
Ballad
Social
Dramatic
monologur
soliloquy
Character
sketch
oration
Haiku
Cinquain
Limeck
Name poem

3. Lyric poem
 is a short poem which has the
characteristics of a song
 It pertains to a single mood or feeling
and is more personal in nature.

4. SONNET
 The Name sonnet derives from Italian word
sonneto which means little song.
 is a relatively short poem consisting of merely
fourteen lines. It is known to follow a strict
pattern of rhyme.
 Classified into Petrarchan, Shakespearean,
Spenserian and Miltonic sonnets.

5. Sonnet 116
by William Shakespeare
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.
Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no! it is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

6. Elegy
 This is a lyric poem which expresses
lament and mourning of the dead,
feeling of grief and melancholy.
 The theme of this poem is death.

7. Lycidas
By John Milton
Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more
Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-sear,
I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude,
And with forc'd fingers rude,
Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.
Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear,
Compels me to disturb your season due:
For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime.

8. Ode
 This is apoem of nobling feeling, expressed
with dignity and praises for some persons,
objects, events or ideas.
 It is exalted in tone and formal in structure and
content.

9. Ode on a Grecian Urn
By John Keats
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:
What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape
Of deities or mortals, or of both,
In Tempe or the dales of Arcady?
What men or gods are these? What maidens loth?
What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape?
What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?

10. Narrative poetry
 Types of poet that narrates a story through
the use of poetic diction either real or
imaginary
 Narrative poem has special appeal.
 This form of poetry describes events in a
vivid way, using some of the elements as
short stories, plot characters and dialogue.

11. Epic
 This is a long and narrative poem that normally
tells a story about a hero or an adventure.
 Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in
written form.
1. Popular or ancient poetry is usually without
definite author and slow in the development.
2. Modern epic poetry has a definite author.

12. 5 Greatest examples of epic poem
 Beowulf by Anonymous - This is an Old English language heroic epic
poem of anonymous authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex
manuscript from between the 8th to the 11th century and relates events
described as having occurred in what is now Denmark and Sweden.
 Metamorphoses by Ovid - This is a narrative poem in fifteen books that
describes the creation and history of the world.
 The Odyssey by Homer - The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer’s Iliad
and mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus and his long journey
home to Ithaca following the fall of Troy.
 Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous - This is an epic poem from Ancient
Mesopotamia and is among the earliest known works of literary fiction.
 The Iliad by Homer - oldest extant work of literature in the ancient
Greek language, making it the first work of European literature.

13. Ballad poems
 It also tell a story, like epic poems however,
ballad poetry is often based on a legend or a
folk tale.
 Most ballads are written in four-six stanzas
and has a regular rhythms and rhyme
schemes.
 A ballad often features a refrain-a regular
repeated line or group of lines.

14. The Mermaid
by Unknown author
Oh the ocean waves 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.

15. Social poem
 This is either purely comic or tragic
and pictures the life of today.
 It may aim to bring changes in social
conditions.

16. Dramatic poetry
 Has elements related closely to the drama.
 It uses a dramatic technique and may unfold
a story.
 It emphasize the character rather than the
narrative.

17. Dramatic monologue
 This is a combination of drama and
poetry.
 It presents some line or speech of
single character in a particular but
complicated situation and sometimes
in a dilemma

18. Soliloquy
 The speaker of the poem or the
character in a play delivers a passage.
 The thoughts and emotions are heard
by the author and the audience as well.

19. Oration
 This Is a formal address elevated in
tone and usually delivered on some
notable occasion.

20. Character Sketch
 This is a poem which the writeris
concerned less with the elements of
story.
 He presents his observations and
comments to a particular individual.

21. Special Types
of poems

22. Haiku
 Special type of poetry which originated
from Japan.
 It’s the shortest type of poem and, often,
the most difficult to understand.
 It consists of three lines that generally do
not rhyme.The lines should have five,
seven, and five syllables in them.

23.  The best-known Japanese
haiku is Bash 's "old pond":
ō
fu-ru-i-ke ya (5)
ka-wa-zu to-bi-ko-mu (7)
mi-zu no o-to (5)
Translated
old pond . . .
a frog leaps in
water’s sound

24. Free Verse
 A loosest type of poem.
 It can consists as many lines as the
writer wants and either rhyme or not
and has no fixed metrical pattern.
 This type of poem openly called as
“Poem with no rules.”

25. Feelings, Now
by Katherine Foreman
Some kind of attraction that is neither
Animal, vegetable, nor mineral, a power not
Solar, fusion, or magnetic
And it is all in my head that
I could see into his
And find myself sitting there.