Poetry can be described as all of the following things:
One of the arts – as an art form, poetry is an outlet of human expression, that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture. Poetry is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse.
A form of literature – literature is composition, that is, written or oral work such as books, stories, and poems.
Fine art – in Western European academic traditions, fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics, distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function. The word "fine" here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question, but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons.
Types of poetryedit
Common poetic formsedit
Epic – lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics, the earliest works of Western literature, were fundamentally an oral poetic form. These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature.
Sonnet – poetic form which originated in Italy; Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention.
Jintishi – literally "Modern Poetry", was actually composed from the 5th century onwards and is considered to have been fully developed by the early Tang dynasty. The works were principally written in five- and seven-character lines and involve constrained tone patterns, intended to balance the four tones of Middle Chinese within each couplet.
Villanelle – nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form.
Tanka – a classical Japanese poem, composed in Japanese (rather than Chinese, as with kanshi)
Ode – a poem written in praise of a person (e.g. Psyche), thing (e.g. a Grecian urn), or event
Ghazal – an Arabic poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain, each line in the same meter
Haiku – a poem, normally in Japanese but also in other languages (particularly English), normally with 17 syllables arranged as 5 + 7 + 5
Free verse - an open form of poetry which does not use consistent meter patterns or rhyme, tending to follow the rhythm of natural speech
History of poetry – the earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung, such as in the form of hymns (such as the work of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna), and employed as a way of remembering oral history, genealogy, and law. Many of the poems surviving from the ancient world are recorded prayers, or stories about religious subject matter, but they also include historical accounts, instructions for everyday activities, love songs, and fiction.
Couplets – a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do.
^Two versions of Paradise Lost are freely available on-line from Project Guttenberg, Project Gutenberg text version 1 and Project Gutenberg text version 2
^The original text, as translated by Samuel Butler, is available at Wikisource.s:The Iliad
^The full text is available online both in Russian [1] and as translated into English by Charles Johnston.[2] Please see the pages on Eugene Onegin and on Nabokov's Notes on Prosody and the references on those pages for discussion of the problems of translation and of the differences between Russian and English iambic tetrameter.
^The full text of "The Raven" is available at Wikisource s:The Raven (Poe)
^The full text of "The Hunting of the Snark" is available at Wikisource.s:The Hunting of the Snark
^The full text of Don Juan is available on-line 2006-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
^See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation,
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry Poetry a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to or instead of its apparent meaning Contents 1 What type of thing is poetry 2 Types of poetry 2 1 Common poetic forms 2 2 Periods styles and movements 3 History of poetry 4 Elements of poetry 4 1 Methods of creating rhythm 4 2 Scanning meter 4 3 Common metrical patterns 4 4 Rhyme alliteration and assonance 4 4 1 Rhyming schemes 4 5 Stanzas and verse paragraphs 4 6 Poetic diction 4 7 Poetics 5 Some famous poets and their poems 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External linksWhat type of thing is poetry editPoetry can be described as all of the following things One of the arts as an art form poetry is an outlet of human expression that is usually influenced by culture and which in turn helps to change culture Poetry is a physical manifestation of the internal human creative impulse A form of literature literature is composition that is written or oral work such as books stories and poems Fine art in Western European academic traditions fine art is art developed primarily for aesthetics distinguishing it from applied art that also has to serve some practical function The word fine here does not so much denote the quality of the artwork in question but the purity of the discipline according to traditional Western European canons Types of poetry editCommon poetic forms edit Epic lengthy narrative poem ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation Milman Parry and Albert Lord have argued that the Homeric epics the earliest works of Western literature were fundamentally an oral poetic form These works form the basis of the epic genre in Western literature Sonnet poetic form which originated in Italy Giacomo Da Lentini is credited with its invention Jintishi literally Modern Poetry was actually composed from the 5th century onwards and is considered to have been fully developed by the early Tang dynasty The works were principally written in five and seven character lines and involve constrained tone patterns intended to balance the four tones of Middle Chinese within each couplet Villanelle nineteen line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza which includes both repeated lines The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form Tanka a classical Japanese poem composed in Japanese rather than Chinese as with kanshi Ode a poem written in praise of a person e g Psyche thing e g a Grecian urn or event Ghazal an Arabic poetic form with rhyming couplets and a refrain each line in the same meter Haiku a poem normally in Japanese but also in other languages particularly English normally with 17 syllables arranged as 5 7 5 Free verse an open form of poetry which does not use consistent meter patterns or rhyme tending to follow the rhythm of natural speechPeriods styles and movements edit For movements see List of poetry groups and movements Augustan poetry poetry written during the reign of Caesar Augustus as Emperor of Rome particularly Virgil Horace and Ovid Automatic poetry Surrealist poetry written using the automatic method Black Mountain postmodern American poetry written in the mid 20th century in Black Mountain College in North Carolina Chanson de geste Classical Chinese poetry Concrete poetry Cowboy poetry Digital poetry Epitaph Fable Found poetry Haptic poetry Imagism Libel Limerick poetry Lyric poetry Metaphysical poetry Medieval poetry Microstory Minnesinger Modern Chinese poetry Modernist poetry The Movement Narrative poetry Objectivist Occasional poetry Odes and elegies Parable Parnassian Pastoral Performance poetry Post modernist Prose poetry Romanticism San Francisco Renaissance Sound poetry Symbolism Troubadour Trouvere Visual poetryHistory of poetry editHistory of poetry the earliest poetry is believed to have been recited or sung such as in the form of hymns such as the work of Sumerian priestess Enheduanna and employed as a way of remembering oral history genealogy and law Many of the poems surviving from the ancient world are recorded prayers or stories about religious subject matter but they also include historical accounts instructions for everyday activities love songs and fiction List of years in poetryElements of poetry editMain article Meter poetry Accents Caesura Couplets a pair of lines of meter in poetry It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter While traditionally couplets rhyme not all do Elision Foot Intonation Meter Mora Prosody Rhythm Scansion Stanza SyllableMethods of creating rhythm edit Main articles Timing linguistics tone linguistics and pitch accent See also Parallelism inflection intonation and foot Scanning meter edit Main article Systems of scansion spondee two stressed syllables together iamb unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable trochee one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable dactyl one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables anapest two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllableThe number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows dimeter two feet trimeter three feet tetrameter four feet pentameter five feet hexameter six feet heptameter seven feet octameter eight feetCommon metrical patterns edit Main article Meter poetry Iambic pentameter Example Paradise Lost 1 by John Milton Dactylic hexameter Examples Iliad 2 by Homer The Metamorphoses by Ovid Iambic tetrameter Examples To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell Eugene Onegin 3 by Aleksandr Pushkin Trochaic octameter Example The Raven 4 by Edgar Allan Poe Anapestic tetrameter Examples The Hunting of the Snark 5 by Lewis Carroll Don Juan 6 by Lord Byron Alexandrine also known as iambic hexameter Example Phedre 7 by Jean RacineRhyme alliteration and assonance edit Alliteration Alliterative verse Assonance Consonance Internal rhyme RhymeRhyming schemes edit Main article Rhyme scheme Chant royal Ottava rima RubaiyatStanzas and verse paragraphs edit Main article stanza 2 line stanza couplet or distich 3 line stanza triplet or tercet 4 line stanza quatrain 5 line stanza quintain or cinquain 6 line stanza sestet 8 line stanza octet verse paragraphPoetic diction edit Main article Poetic diction Poetics edit Main article PoeticsSome famous poets and their poems editMain articles List of poets and List of poems Anna Akhmatova Requiem Maya Angelou On the Pulse of Morning Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso W H Auden Musee des Beaux Arts September 1 1939 Matsuo Bashō Natsu no Tsuki Summer Moon Charles Baudelaire Les Fleurs du Mal William Blake The Chimney Sweeper The Sick Rose London Geoffrey Chaucer The Complaint of Mars Samuel Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Dante Divine Comedy Kamala Das The Descendants Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers Why do I love You Sir Faith is a fine invention John Donne Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Elegy XIX To His Mistress Going to Bed Rita Dove Thomas and Beulah collection John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel Mac Flecknoe T S Eliot The Waste Land Ferdowsi Shahnameh Robert Frost The Road Not Taken Nothing Gold Can Stay Mirza Ghalib Goethe Homer Iliad Odyssey Gerard Manley Hopkins Binsey Poplars Horace Epistles collection Victor Hugo Les Contemplations Alfred Edward Housman To An Athlete Dying Young Omar Khayyam Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Translated Collection John Keats Sleep and Poetry Jan Kochanowski Laments Translated Collection Ignacy Krasicki Fables and Parables Jean de La Fontaine Mikhail Lermontov Boyarin Orsha Li Bai Quiet Night Thought Stephane Mallarme L apres midi d un faune W S Merwin Czeslaw Milosz John Milton Paradise Lost Pablo Neruda Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Collection Ovid Ars Amatoria Collection Petrarch Il Canzoniere Collection Sylvia Plath Lady Lazarus Edgar Allan Poe The Raven Alexander Pope The Rape of the Lock Ezra Pound The Cantos Alexander Pushkin Ruslan and Ludmila Rainer Maria Rilke Duino Elegies Arthur Rimbaud Le Bateau ivre The Drunken Boat Jalal ad Din Rumi Masnavi William Shakespeare Shakespeare s sonnets Shel Silverstein Where the Sidewalk Ends Collection Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene Philip Sidney The Countess of Pembroke s Arcadia Tasso Jerusalem Delivered Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson Break Break Break The Charge of the Light Brigade Tears Idle Tears Francois Villon Virgil Aeneid Derek Walcott Omeros Walt Whitman Song of Myself Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking William Wordsworth The Prelude William Butler Yeats Sailing to Byzantium Swift s Epitaph Translation See also edit nbsp Poetry portalGlossary of poetry terms Glossary of literary termsReferences edit Two versions of Paradise Lost are freely available on line from Project Guttenberg Project Gutenberg text version 1 and Project Gutenberg text version 2 The original text as translated by Samuel Butler is available at Wikisource s The Iliad The full text is available online both in Russian 1 and as translated into English by Charles Johnston 2 Please see the pages on Eugene Onegin and on Nabokov s Notes on Prosody and the references on those pages for discussion of the problems of translation and of the differences between Russian and English iambic tetrameter The full text of The Raven is available at Wikisource s The Raven Poe The full text of The Hunting of the Snark is available at Wikisource s The Hunting of the Snark The full text of Don Juan is available on line Archived 2006 08 21 at the Wayback Machine See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation Phaedra at Project GutenbergFurther reading editRichard Abcarian 15 July 2016 Literature The Human Experience with 2016 MLA Update Bedford St Martin s ISBN 978 1 319 08812 5 External links editPoetry at Wikipedia s sister projects nbsp Definitions from Wiktionary nbsp Media from Commons nbsp News from Wikinews nbsp Quotations from Wikiquote nbsp Texts from Wikisource nbsp Textbooks from Wikibooks nbsp Resources from Wikiversity Poetry Out Loud List of Poems Poetry archives Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Outline of poetry amp oldid 1182627638, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
