Types of personal poetry

 Name: rathod harshita 

Major-5 english 

Semester- 3

               ASSIGNMENT

TYPES OF PERAONAL POETRY 

1. LYRIC POETRY

● Definition: Personal poetry focused on expressing the poet’s own

emotions and experiences.

● Forms:

○ Convivial or Festive Lyrics: Celebrate social events and joy.

○ Love Lyrics: Explore various aspects of love, including joy,longing, and sorrow.

○ Patriotic Lyrics: Express national pride or reflect on the poet’s relationship with their country.

○ Religious Lyrics: Deal with spiritual themes and religious

experiences.

○ Other Personal Themes: Include personal reflections, grief, and Joy.

Characteristics:

● Emotion: Should convey genuine feelings that resonate with the reader.

● Sincerity: Must express emotions convincingly.

● Language and Imagery: Should be beautiful, vivid, and appropriate for the subject.

● Brevity and Condensation: Effective lyrics are often concise and avoidver-elaboration, which can diminish impact.

2. COMMUNAL (GROUP) POETRY

● Definition: Poetry reflecting the feelings of a group or community rathert han an individual.

● Historical Context: Early poetry often expressed collective sentiments of clans or groups, like Hebrew lyrical poetry.

● Modern Examples: Hymns and patriotic lyrics.

● Group-Consciousness: Even modern poetry can reflect collective feelings, such as during times of widespread social or political upheaval (e.g., Byron's works during the revolutionary age).

3. MEDITATIVE AND PHILOSOPHIC POETRY

● Definition: Poetry that involves deep thought and reflection, often

combining emotional expression with philosophical or intellectual content.

● Characteristics:

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○ Thought Quality: The value and coherence of the ideas presented are crucial.

○ Example: Pope's Essay on Man is criticized for being more a treatise than a true poem due to its philosophical inconsis

4. DIDACTIC POETRY

● Definition: Poetry intended to teach or convey moral or philosophical lessons, often presented through storytelling or allegory.

● Forms: Narrative poems that use story elements to convey abstract ideas.

● Examples: Tennyson’s Palace of Art and Vision of Sin.

● characteristics

○Instructional: The primary goal is to educate the reader on a specific subject, truth, or moral lesson. 

○Informative: It can provide information on a vast array of topics, including science, art, philosophy, and religion. 

○Memorable: By using verse, this poetry can serve as a memorable and engaging way to learn and retain information. 

○Allegorical: It often employs allegories, symbolism, and clear structures to make complex ideas more accessible. 

5. ODE

● Definition: A formal, often lengthy lyric poem that is elevated in style and typically addresses a dignified subject.

● Characteristics:

○ Dignified or Exalted: Deals with serious themes and has an elevated tone.

○ Structure: Can be regular or irregular; may follow classical forms or be more modern.

○ Examples: Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, Wordsworth’s Ode on the intimations of Immortality.

6. ELEGY 

● Definition: A lyric poem expressing mourning and sorrow, often for someone who has died.

● Characteristics:

○ Sincerity: Requires genuine emotion and avoids any hint of artificiality.

○ Examples: David’s Lament for Saul and Jonathan, Tennyson’s Break, Break, Break.

7.GREEK ELEGY

Greek elegy is a type of poetry that was originally written for oral delivery atsocial gatherings, such as banquets and drinking parties. The term elegeion comes from the Greek word elegos, which means "funeral lament".

●Key Characteristics:

○Meter: The elegiac couplet (a dactylic hexameter followed by a dactylic pentameter).

○Subjects: Varied from public matters (wars, politics) to personal themes (lamentations, festive pleasures).

8.DRAMATIC POETRY

Dramatic poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story or portrays a situation through the words and actions of characters, rather than through a narrator. It is typically written in verse and intended for performance, and includes forms like plays, soliloquies, and dramatic monologues. This genre emerged in ancient Greece and uses poetic language to create emotional impact and reveal character motivations.

 

●Key characteristics

○Narrative and action: It uses a sequence of events or actions to develop a complete story.

○Characters: It features well-developed characters with their own distinct voices, personalities, and conflicts.

○Dialogue and monologues: It relies on dialogue between characters, or longer speeches such as soliloquies (speaking one's thoughts aloud to oneself) and dramatic monologues (a speech addressed to another character or to the audience).

○Verse form: It is written in verse, often using a meter and rhyme to create a rhythmic, musical effect that enhances emotional impact.

○Performance-oriented: While it can be read, it is fundamentally meant to be performed or recited aloud. 

9. NARRATIVE POETRY

Narrative poetry is a form of poetry that tells a story, with a clear beginning, middle, and end, and includes elements like plot, characters, setting, and conflict. It differs from prose by being written in verse and often uses poetic devices such as rhyme, meter, and rhythm. Examples range from short ballads to long epics, and its roots are in oral traditions meant to be easily remembered. 

●Key characteristics

○Tells a story: Like prose, narrative poetry has a plot with a beginning, middle, and end.

○Includes story elements: It features characters, a setting, conflict, and a resolution.

○Written in verse: The story is told using poetic structure, meter, and rhythm.

○Uses poetic devices: These poems often employ rhyme and other poetic devices to enhance the storytelling and make them memorable.

○Narrative voice: A narrator or speaker tells the story, sometimes using dialogue to present events and character interactions. 

10.EPIC POETRY

Epic poetry is a long, narrative poem chronicling the extraordinary, often superhuman, deeds of a heroic figure whose actions are significant to their culture. 

●Key Characteristics

○Lengthy narrative:Epic poems are book-length works that tell a story. 

○Heroic subject:The story centers on an extraordinary hero whose actions have broad cultural significance. 

○Supernatural elements:Divine figures, gods, or other supernatural forces often play a significant role in the plot. 

○Elevated style:Epics are written in a formal and elevated tone to match the grandeur of the subject matter. 

○Oral tradition:Many of the earliest epics grew out of oral storytelling, passed down by bards.