What is There to Know About Poetry

Introduction

This is for anyone that wants to know anything and everything about poetry. If you enjoy reading poetry and like learning about it. This will tell what you need to do to have a good poem and what makes poetry the way it is.  

 

Task

There is a lot that goes behind a good poem. Poetry has a lot of meanings to it. It puts words together that fit well and makes a story out of them. It tells a story but not in the same way a book does. It's a short story, that is made up of words that flow together with each other. 

When writing your own poetry there are 10 thinks you need to remember to do. 

To make your own poem you can visit: https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/

It will help you generate your own poem and help you put the words that you have thought up on paper. It will help you get a feel for writing them. 

Process

Rhythm: is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe

Line: A unit of meaning, a measure of attention. The line is a way of framing poetry.

Iambic pentameter: A five-stress, roughly 10 syllable line. 

Stanza: The natural unit of the lyric: a group or sequence of lines arranged in a pattern.

Metaphor: A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another.

Simile: The explicit comparison of one thing to another, using the word as or like.

Sonnet: A poem of fourteen lines using any of a number of formal rhyme schemes.

Epigram: Is a short, witty poem or pointed saying.

Rhyme: Correspondence of sound between words or the endings of words.

Poem: A made thing, a verbal construct, an event in language. 

These are the 10 things you need to remember when, either writing poetry or reading it. When reading it and it has almost all 10 of the these definitions then the poetry is legit and was written the right way. 

Evaluation

Different type of Poems 

Ballad 

Blank Verse 

Free Verse 

Epic 

Lyric 

Sonnet 

Tanka 

Here are some of the greatest poetry book of all time. 

Shakespeare's Sonnets  By: William Shakespeares 

The Raven and Other Poems  By: Edgar Allan Poe 

The Complete Poems  By: John Keats 

Songs of Innocence and of Experience  By: William Blake 

Paradise Lost  By: John Milton

Four Quartets  By: T.S. Quartets 

The Canterbury Tales  By: Geoffrey Chaucer 

The Cantos  By: Ezra Pound 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Read through all those poetry books and see if you can tell if they have the 10 things that come with a successful poem. 

To make your own poem you can visit: https://www.poem-generator.org.uk/

It will help you generate your own poem and help you put the words that you have thought up on paper. It will help you get a feel for writing them. 

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Jack Rawlings 

Ivy Tech Educ 233 

November 27, 2017