Little sampaguita

With the wondering eye

Did a tiny fairy
Drop you where you lie?

In the witching hour

Of the tropic night
Did the careless
moonbeam
Leave you in its flight?
P O E T R Y
{ F. K. Dumalay
 Literary work in metrical form; verse

A literary piece that formulates a

concentrated imaginative awareness of
experience in language chosen and
arranged to create a specific emotional
response through meaning, sound, and
rhythm

Poetry
Stanza
A unit of lines grouped together
These are usually of the same

length and follow the same pattern

of meter and rhyme.

Elements of P o e t r y
Stanza
Couplets

Tercets

Alternating
Quatrains
Enveloped

Elements of P o e t r y
Tone/
Mood
the attitude of the narrator or
writer, subject matter, characters or
events which comes from the
poems syntax and vocabulary.

Elements of P o e t r y
 Imagery
Mental images about a poems
subject
Representations which appeal to

the five senses: sight, taste, touch,

sound, and smell

Elements of P o e t r y
 Refrain

The repetition of one or more

phrases or lines at certain intervals,
usually at the end of each stanza

Elements of P o e t r y
 Repetition

A word or phrase repeated within a

line or stanza

Elements of P o e t r y
 Repetition

Humpty Dumpty
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;
All the King's horses and all the King's
men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

Elements of P o e t r y
 Rhyme

The repetition of the same or

similar sounds at the end of two
ore more words often at the end of
the lines

Elements of P o e t r y
 Theme

the central idea, or the thought

behind what the poet wants to
convey

Elements of P o e t r y
 Symbolism

Anything that conveys feelings,

thoughts and ideas and enables
readers to look at things in a
different light.

Elements of P o e t r y
 Symbolism

sleep dreams

water seasons

Elements of P o e t r y
 Symbolism
animals
snakes and guns
forests natural cycles

Elements of P o e t r y
 Symbolism
animals
snakes and guns
forests natural cycles

Elements of P o e t r y
And hold secret a bird's flowering.

It must be slender as a bell

And it must hold fire as well.

It must have the wisdom of bows

And it must kneel like a rose.

It must be able to hear

The luminance of dove and deer.

It must be able to hide

Love is gentle, love is quiet
Like any distant star
Love is beauty, love is music
Soothing as night winds are.

Love is patient and unselfish,

Divine, true, neutral, fair
Love is ageless and immortal,
Lost love is just somewhere.

And the heart that love abandons,

Nurses a tender scar;
Softly stabbing, and yet sweetly
Soothing as night winds are.