What is a Poem?
What is a Poem? A poem is a composition of literary character with subjective meaning both for the one who performs it and for the one who interprets it. Although poetry usually captures nature or aesthetic feeling through the word in verse, it is also possible to find poetry in prose. A poem can express about life and its stages; it can tell a story or honor a person, a deity or something very particular about what surrounds us.
exist poems towards heartbreak, love, sadness, towards a mother, towards a pet that has died, towards nature and towards everything what is part of our environment and that in some way arouses feelings, attracts memories and stimulates the imagination. The poems usually have metaphors, analogies and other rhetorical figures and linguistic procedures that they narrate or mention something in a subtle and indirect way to achieve that aesthetic, ethereal and fluid end that is seeks. Greece and Rome were the first regions where poetry developed, becoming part of life daily life and the most outstanding social events and festivities of times before the era christian.
Index
- parts of the poem
- Types of poetic composition
- types of poetry
- poetry and poem
parts of the poem
A poem evokes an imaginative consciousness that depends on an individual's experience or emotional response. The expression of feelings and ideas of a poem, receives special attention to diction, meaning, rhythm and sound. The verses are measured by syllables. He meter It is the number of syllables per verse that a poem has; then when it is said that two verses have different meters it means that they have different measures. The metrics It is a set of systematic rules relating to the meter of verses and stanzas. That is, the metric refers to three parts: verse, stanza and poem. A verse is the statement that forms the unit of a poem. The set of lines is known as stanza, which usually fits to a measure throughout the entire poem. A stanza is usually made up of 4 lines, which is called a quatrain, but there are two lines. (couplet), of three so-called triplets, of 5 or quintilla, of 6 or sextet, of 8 or leaflets and of 10 verses or spinel. Rhythm refers to the patterns used to emphasize one word over another. Accentuating them creates a fluid and particular rhythm. Poems can also have sound patterns through rhyming or repeated letters in two words next to each other or in the same line that grab attention. (p. eg stain and night, where the set of c and h have a remarkable sound).
Parole
Wind the leaves sing, { the pears dance in the pear tree; } - Verse turn the rose, rose of the wind, not of the rose bush. Clouds and clouds float asleep, algae of the air; all space revolves with them, nobody's force. {Everything is space; the poppy's rod vibrates and a naked one flies in the wind on the back of a wave.} - Verse I am nothing, a body that floats, light, waves; Everything is from the wind and the wind is air, always traveling... Octavio Paz poem.
Types of poetic composition.
Sonnet.
They are 14-line lyric poems that follow a specific pattern of consonant rhyme. Shakespearean sonnets, which are the most common, contain 14 lines, each with 10 syllables, but one sonnet It usually consists of fourteen endcasyllabic verses, grouped into four stanzas and divided into two quatrains and two triplets.
Romance.
They are verses of less than 8 syllables and with assonance rhyme in the even verses.
Romance lay.
It consists of an indeterminate number of verses, generally seven syllables with assonance rhyme in pairs.
Romancillo.
It is made up of an indeterminate number of hexasyllabic verses with rhyme of the even verses in assonance.
heroic romance.
It is made up of verses of eleven syllables (hendecasyllables) and rhymes in assonance only in the even verses.
Silva.
Silva verses are heptasyllabic and hendecasyllabic with free consonant rhyme; that is, the verses may not contain rhymes.
Zéjel.
It is a form of Arabic poetry that follows two different metric systems. The rhyme is consonant.
Song.
The verses are heptasyllables and hendecasyllables called stays, with assonance rhymes.
Madrigal.
The verses are also seven syllables and hendecasyllables with assonance rhymes but the difference is that they focus on love themes.
Letrilla.
They are short compositions with consonant or assonance rhyme (although they are more consonant) and with stanzas that can be rounds or double limericks.
Free verse.
The verses and the rhyme can be of free application. It is close to prose poetry.
types of poetry
epic poetry.
The epic is a narrative genre that involves the living memory of those legendary or fictional characters who became heroes who embody the values of a culture or ethnic group. It encompasses legends, myths, and significant events in history where deities may also be involved. Epic poetry has a long history. Homer, a Greek aedus who lived in the eighth century BC. C., was the author of the first known epic poems: The odyssey and The Iliad, two of the most popular and important works of world literature.
Lyric poetry.
It is the type of poetry that expresses intense feelings or deep and personal reflections of the author, generally accompanied by a musical instrument that was formerly the lyre. It could be said that the lyrical poems were the first “live concerts” where the authors lived closely with the receiving public. It was limited to the aristocracy and only select groups could enjoy it. This type of poetry is usually short and written in the first person to imply that it is about the personal feelings of the creator of the piece. The themes can be love, death, struggle, sadness and other themes that are related to the context of the time. "La Elegía" by William Adolphe Bouguereau and "Madrigal" by Gutierre de Cetina, are examples of lyrical poetry.
dramatic poetry.
Dramatic poetry arose at the end of the 6th century BC. c. when lyrical poetry began to decline. Dramatic poetry was no longer part of the aristocracy, but was performed for an entire community, which little by little he created theatrical spaces to represent it as a form of entertainment and preservation of the culture. The forms of dramatic poetry are: tragedy, comedy and satirical drama. A characteristic of this type of poetry is that it can be expressed in the form of a recital or a song. Plauto, Terence and Seneca were great exponents of dramatic poetry.
Acrostic poetry.
It is a poetic composition in which the initial letters of each verse form a word. It is rarely the last letter of each verse or interspersed and "hidden" letters between the words. The first who dedicated themselves to this genre were the Provencal poets. This represented an entertaining type of poetry and very well accepted by the public, especially by the youngest.
Jitanjaforas poetry.
It is a type of poetry based on invented words or expressions that lack a meaning, but that with the harmoniously ordered phonetic composition, it is possible to give a rhythm and a sound with touch fun. For example, this is a jitanjaforas poem by the Mexican writer Alfonso Reyes: Filiflame alabe cundrealiferous olaluneous wingalveolea jitanjáforalily salumba salifera This type of poem can contain a pure made-up word, or have a combination with significant words. For example: To the varipan, venusa;to the carraclan, acacia;al mirabó, my little female;I am male in the god brama.To the marifrú, the bride;to the lip-kiss, chiffon.Fragment of Parto de palabras, by Juan Morales Rojas.
Poetry and poem.
Although they are closely related, poetry is not the same as poem. A poem, as we have already seen, is the composition literary that meets certain aesthetic requirements, while poetry has various forms of expression; be it with words, with emotions, with movements, through songs, paintings or other forms of art. Poetry tries to impact the imagination or emotions of the recipient.
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- https://kids.britannica.com/kids/article/poetry/353645#252396-toc
- https://www.arts.gov/operation-homecoming/essays-writing/what-poetry
