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• Poetry is the oldest of the arts.
• Poetry is the earliest literature of the ancient peoples, such as Egyptian and the Sumerians.
• Poetry appeals to our imagination.
• Poetry is a type of writing that uses language to express imaginative and emotional qualities instead of or in addition to meaning.
• Poetry is a collection of words that express an emotion or idea.
• Poetry requires creativity, emotion, an artistic quality and logic.
• Lyric poetry is usually melodious, which expresses feelings or emotions.
• Most lyric poetry are about death or love, emotional responses to the beauty or the elemental forces of nature.
• Spring and Fall: To a young child is written by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
• Examples of lyric poetry are Sonnet, Ode, and Elegy.
• Sonnet is a type of lyric poetry that is defined by form.
• Sonnet have fourteen lines and rhyme scheme of abab cdcd efef gg.
• Sonnet have have 10 syllables each line (iambic pentameter)
• Monometer : One Foot
• Dimeter : Two Feet
• Trimeter : Three Feet
• Tetrameter : Four Feet
• Pentanmeter : Five Feet
• Hexameter : Six Feet
• Heptameter : Seven Feet
• Octameter : Eight Feet
• Iambic ( 1 unstressed + 1 stressed ) = daDUM
• Trochaic ( 1 stressed + 1 unstressed) = DUMda
• Anapestic ( 2 unstressed + 1 stressed ) = dadaDUM
• Dactylic ( 1 stressed + 2 unstressed ) = DUMdada
• Spondaic ( all syllables are equal ) = DUMDUM or dada
• Sonnet 18 is written by William Shakespeare
• The Silken Tent is written by Robert Frost
• There are 154 sonnet made by William Shakespeare
• Ode is a formal poem having a complex stanza pattern and it is addressed to an object or an idea.
• Ode to Winter written by Thomas Campbell
• Elegy is a poem that expresses mourning someone's death.
• Elegy is solemn and dignified.
• Elegy for Jane eritten by Theodore Roethke
• Narrative poetry presents an idea, paints a picture, or expesses an emotion. It tells a story in poetic form.
• Get Up & Bar The Door written by Anonymous
• Haiku is a traditional conerstone of Japanese poetry with no set of rhyme scheme, but a specific shape.
• Haiku poems are often explorations of the natural world, but they can be anything you like.
• Haiku has a 5 7 5 pattern
• Tanka is a Japanese poetry that follows a syllable pattern of 5 7 5 7 7