Types of Poetry

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Types of Poetry

• English II
• Spring 2006

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Narrative Poetry

• definitiontells a story
• meter rhyme helped entertainers audiences
• principal form of entertainment

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Narrative Poetry EPIC

• definitionlong poem celebrating societys hero
• larger than life
• there are a number of famous epics

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Narrative Poem BALLAD

• definitionrelatively short poem originally meant
  for singing
• folk/popular balladswritten by common people
• mostly tragic sensational
• exists today
• literary balladswritten by known writers
• differ from folk ballads
• ballad stanzas
• four line stanza with 2nd and 4th lines rhyming
• 1st 3rd lines contain four heavily accented
  syllables 2nd 4th lines contain three

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Dramatic Poetry

• definitionpresents one or more characters
  speaking, usually to each other, but sometimes to
  themselves or the audience
• many characteristics of a play

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Dramatic Poetry DRAMATIC DIALOGUE

• definitionspecial kind of dramatic poem
• one character speaks to one or more characters
  whose responses are not given
• speaker reveals his/her deepest thoughts and
  feelings
• dramatic dialogue is like hearing one side of a
  telephone conversationyou must imagine the other
  end

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Lyric Poetry

• purpose is to express poets personal thoughts
  and/or feelings
• term lyric is derived from Greek lyrikos
• often is rich in musical devices
• two popular types
• sonnet14 rhymed lines written in iambic
  pentameter
• elegyexpresses mourning for the dead

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Other Vocabulary

• dialecta regional vocabulary and regional way of
  speaking