1.What is Poetry?

It's the oldest form of literature. It's like music because it createsbeautiful sounds with words when expressing ideas and feelings.A poem is made up of blocks of lines called (stanza).

Stanza

One of the divisions of a poem, composed of two or more linesusually characterized by a common pattern of meter, rhyme, and

number of lines. Every poem is divided into stanzas. Stanzaconsists of two or more lines and it usually covers on item or idea.

2.Elements of Poetry

There are several elements which make up a good poem. In brief,they are described below.

a) Rhythm: This is the music made by the statements of thepoem, which includes the syllables in the lines. The best method ofunderstanding this is to read the poem aloud

b) Meter: This is the basic structural make-up of the poem.Do the syllables match with each other? Every line in the poemmust adhere to this structure

c) Rhyme: A poem may or may not have a rhyme. When youwrite poetry that has rhyme, it means that the last words of thelines match with each other in some form.

Ex." I am busy" said the sea" I am busy think of me "

d) Imagery:

most figures of speech cast up in your mind. These picturescreated are called images

e). Figurative Language :

Simile : Comparison of one thing to another using " like or as "

Ex:- I wandered lonely as a cloud./Love is like a fire.

Personification :To regard a thing or animal as a person.

Ex:- " Iam busy" said the sea.The poet personifies the sea and makes it talk.

Metaphor :The use of words to indicate something different fromthe literal meaning .A figure of speech that implies comparison between two unlikeentities.

Ex:- all the world is a stage. / days eye / sweet bird of life

Theme: This is what the poem is all about. The theme of thepoem is the central idea that the poet wants to convey. It can be astory, or a thought, or a description of something or someone anything which is what the poem is all about.

Techniques or musical devices

Alliteration: The repetition of the first consonant sounds at thebeginning of words.

Ex. " With the wonderful water "The (w) is repeated three times.

" Iam busy" said the sea.

Assonance: The repetition of vowel sounds,(free as a breeze)(High as a kite)

he repetition of final consonant sounds, as inTconsonance.ofke," "a strotand sweet," "shordsand endds," "ostand last"fir

.cklu

. The combination of assonance and consonance is rhyme.Rhyme is the repetition of the accented vowel sound and allsucceeding sounds.

Contrast :The use of the opposite words to make the meaningclear .

small.and I am sogreat,You are so- Ex:

,thereand blowinghere"Blowingand everywhere.downandUp

Rhyme Scheme

The arrangement of rhymes in a poem or stanza.

weepBid me to weep, and I will;seeWhile I have eyes to

keepAnd having none, and yet I will.theeA heart to weep for

Patterns of Traditional Poems:

Ballad : is a long singing poem that tells a story (usually of loveor adventure.

Free Verse has no identifiable meter, although the lines mayhave a rhyme-scheme.

Lyric is a poem of emotional intensity and expresses powerfulfeelings.

Sonnet is a fourteen line poem.