2. LYRIC POETRY
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.
3. SONNET
The name sonnet derives from the
Italian word sonneto which means
little song.
Is a relatively short poem consisting
of merely 14 lines. It is known to
follow a strict pattern of rhyme.
Classifies in Petrarchan,
Shakespearean, and Miltonic
sonnets.
4. 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-fixèd mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring 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.
5. 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.
6. LYCIDAS
by: John Milton
Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more
Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere,
I come 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.
7. A Free Verse poem is…
A poem that is written freely with
rhythm but no rhyme.
8. ODE
This is a poem of nobling feeling,
expressed with dignity and praises for
some persons, objects, events or
ideas.
It 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
Type of poetry 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.
12. 5 GREATEST EXAMPLES OF EPIC
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.
13. METAMORPHOSES BY
OVID
this is a narrative poem in
fifteen books that describes
the creation of history of the
world.
14. 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.
15. EPIC OF GILGAMESH BY
ANONYMOUS
-this is an epic poem from
Ancient Mesopotamia
and is among the earliest
known works for literary
fiction.
16. THE ILIAD BY HOMER
-oldest extant work of
literature in the Ancient Greek
language, making it the first
work of European literature
17. A Ballad poem is…
A poem that is written as a song and
often has a refrain or chorus.
It also tells a story, like epic poems
however, ballad poetry is often based
on legend or a folk tale.
18. THE MERMAID
by Unknown
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
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26. An Acrostic Poem is…
A poem where the first letter of each
line spells a word that can be read
vertically.
27. A Limerick poem is…
A five line silly poem that has lines
1,2, and 5 rhyming and lines 3 and 4
rhyming.
28. A Haiku Poem is…
A three line Japanese poem about
nature with the first line containing 5
syllables, the second line 7 syllables,
and the third line 5 syllables.
29. Why Type of Poem is this?
There was an old man of Nantucket,
Who kept all his cash in a bucket;
But his daughter, named Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket- Nantucket
Written By: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Acrostic
Free Verse
Ballad
Limerick
Haiku
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32. Biography of Lisa Fisher
Born and raised in Muskegon MI
Jr. at Western Michigan University
Minoring in Elementary Education,
Language Arts, and Mathematics.
