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POETRY

Some basic information

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TWO TYPES OF POEMS

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TWO TYPES OF POEMS

Narrative Poem

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TWO TYPES OF POEMS

Narrative Poem

Lyric Poem

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NARRATIVE POEM

Main function is to tell a story

The Odyssey

The Iliad

Beowulf

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LYRIC POEM

Expresses vivid thoughts and feelings

Ode to a particular topic or person

Personal poetry

Love poems

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IMPORTANT TO NOTE~

Some poems contain both lyric and narrative

elements

See-saw effect Continuum

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CONVENTIONS OF POETRY

(remember that conventions are common devices

used in literature or art.)

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CONVENTIONS OF POETRY

Musical devices

o Alliteration

o Repetition

o Rhyme

o Rhythm

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CONVENTIONS OF POETRY

Figurative language

Simile

Metaphor

Personification

Creative comparisons

Unexpected descriptions

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HOPE IS THE THING WITH

FEATHERS

BY EMILY DICKINSON"Hope" is the thing with feathers

That perches in the soul

And sings the tune without the words

And never stopsat all

And sweetestin the Galeis heard

And sore must be the storm

That could abash the little Bird

That kept so many warm

I've heard it in the chillest land

And on the strangest Sea

Yet, never, in Extremity,

It asked a crumbofMe.