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Revision as of 16:24, 15 November 2007
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- For a more comprehensive list, see the Glossary of poetry terms.
Poetry is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its ostensible meaning. Basic topics in poetry include:
Essence of poetry
Types of poetry
Common poetic forms
Periods, styles and movements
For movements see List of poetry groups and movements.
- Automatic poetry
- Black Mountain
- Chanson de geste
- Concrete poetry
- Cowboy poetry
- Digital poetry
- Epitaph
- Erasure poetry
- Fable
- Found poetry
- Haptic Poetry
- Imagism
- Libel
- Limerick poetry
- Lyric poetry
- Metaphysical poetry
- Medieval poetry
- Minnesinger
- The Movement
- Narrative poetry
- Objectivist
- Odes and Elegies
- Parnassian
- Pastoral
- Performance poetry
- Poetry slam
- Post-modernist
- Romanticism
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Sound poetry
- Symbolism
- Troubadour
- Trouvère
- Visual poetry
History of poetry
Basic elements of poetry
- Accents
- Couplets
- Elision
- Feet
- Intonation
- Meter
- Moras
- Prosody
- Rhythm
- Scansion
- Stanzas
- Syllables
- Caesura
Methods of creating rhythm
- See also Parallelism, inflection, intonation, foot
Scanning meter
- 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 syllable
The 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 feet
Common metrical patterns
- Iambic pentameter (John Milton, Paradise Lost[1])
- Dactylic hexameter (Homer, Iliad;[2] Ovid, The Metamorphoses)
- Iambic tetrameter (Andrew Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress")
- Iambic tetrameter (Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin)[3]
- Trochaic octameter (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven")[4]
- Anapestic tetrameter (Lewis Carroll, "The Hunting of the Snark";[5] Lord Byron, Don Juan)[6]
- Alexandrine, also known as iambic hexameter (Jean Racine, Phèdre)[7]
Rhyme, alliteration and assonance
Rhyming schemes
Stanzas and verse paragraphs
- 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
Poetic diction
- Rhetorical device
- Simile
- Metaphor
- Irony
- Surrealism
- Catachresis
- Allegory
- Allusion
- Imagery
- Symbolism
- Refrain
Famous poems and poets
- William Shakespeare
- Basho (芭蕉松尾）
- Li Bai (李白)
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Alexander Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин)
- Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов)
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Robert Frost
- Ignacy Krasicki, Fables and Parables
- Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
- Shel Silverstein
- Ferdowsi, "Shahnameh"
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
Poetry lists
References
- ^ 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.[1]
- ^ The full text is available online both in Russian[2] and as translated into English by Charles Johnston.[3] 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[4].
- ^ The full text of "The Hunting of the Snark" is available at Wikisource.[5]
- ^ The full text of Don Juan is available on-line.[6]
- ^ See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation,
External links
Poetry at Wikipedia's sister projects
Definitions from Wiktionary
Media from Commons
News from Wikinews
Quotations from Wikiquote
Texts from Wikisource
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Resources from Wikiversity
- Poetry Out Loud List of Poems
- Learning for a Cause, a non-profit educational organization that publishes the poetry and fiction of young writers under the age of eighteen.
- Poetry archives