ELEMENTS OF POETRY

HUSHILI ACHUMI
 WHAT IS POETRY?
 Greek word ‘poiesis’ meaning ‘making’.
FIRST  Uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities

THING of language.
 Dramatic, lyrical and narrative.
S  Haiku: 3 line poem with 5 7 5 syllable

FIRST!! pattern.

! An old silent pond.

A frog jumps into the pond,

Splash! Silence again.

 THE HUMAN BRAIN!

OKAY LET’S
GET A
TEENY BIT LEFT BRAIN: Logic and
Reality.
RIGHT BRAIN: Creativity and
Emotions
SCIENTIFIC
!!! POETRY REQUIRES creativity, emotion, artistic quality and
logic.

SO THE MISCONCEPTION OF IT BEING ONLY ARTISTIC IS

BUSTED!!!!
 SO
• Basic elements that bring imagery and emotion to
HOW CAN WE poetry, stories or dramas:

CREATE A POEM???
 FORM
 SOUND DEVICES
 FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE
 MOOD/TONE
 THEME
FORM!!! Right let’s talk about FORMATION!!!
(no…I ain’t talking about the
Beyonce one :-p )

 Appearance- Divided into lines.

Group of lines = Stanzas.
Couplet, Tercet, Quatrain, Cinquain,
Sestet, Septet and Octave.
SOUND DEVICES!!!

 RHYME Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? A

 RHYME SCHEME Thou art more lovely and more temperate: B
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, A
 RHYTHM
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date; B
 ALLITERATION Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, C
 REPETITION And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; D
And every fair from fair sometime declines, C
 REFRAIN
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d; D
 ONAMATOPOEIA But thy eternal summer shall not fade, E
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; F
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, E
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: F
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, G
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. G
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  METAPHOR- DOES NOT use ‘as’ or ‘like’.
 SIMILE- USES ‘as’ and ‘like’.

FIGURATIVE  HYPERBOLE- exaggeration for the sake of emphasis.

LANGUAGE!!!  PERSONIFICATION- giving HUMAN like characteristics.
 SYMBOLISM- SIGNIFIES something other than what it LITERALLY means.

Imagery: words
appealing to
a reader's senses of light,
touch, taste and smell.

Figures of speech create

pictures by making
comparisons.

LET’S LOOK INTO IT!

MOOD/TONE!!! Barren branches pierce the sky,
Chattering in the shivering breeze. What is the mood?
Feelings the poet wishes to
portray and indicates the poets The clouds hold captive,
view towards the subject. Rays of the gloomy sunshine.
Blades of grass brown and tattered
SAY, LET’S LISTEN TO
A From frost’s sharp fingernails. What is the tone?

MOODY POET! Winter squeezes the last breath

Out of all that once thrived.
 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.

THEME!!! Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

All the king’s horses and men
Central (lesson) and main Couldn’t put Humpty Dumpty together again.
idea (the plot) of the
poem.
IT IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT!!!

ALRIGHTY! LET’S
FLEX THOSE
GREY MATTERS (remember that
brain slide hmmm?) NOW!!!
DAFFODILS
by William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and
hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the
trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the
breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending
line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly
dance.
The waves beside them danced,
but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in
glee:
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed-and-gazed but little
thought
What wealth the show to me had
brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure
fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
 REFERENCE LIST
• http://www.osymigrant.org/ROMpoetryFormSyllablesMoodandTone.pdf

• http://www.stimoop.com

• Scholes.R.1959, Elements of Poetry.

• http://www.scholastic.com