What is poetry?
Poetry is a word came from ancient Greek word which means I create. According to free online dictionary, it is a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.
People can use poetry to convey emotion or ideas to reader. Poems frequently rely for their effect on imagery, word association and the musical qualities of the language used. Poetry is difficult to be translated to another language since the language used is emphasized on linguistic form rather than its content. The shades and nuances of poetry can cause different reader to interpret a particular piece of poetry differently. There will be no definitive interpretation, only reasonable interpretations.
Nature of poetry
Most of the times, poetry can be differentiated from prose. Poetry is often crated to escape from logical. Poetry is also used to expressed feelings and other emotions in a tight and condensed manner.
Genres in poetry
Some of the genres in poetry.
Narrative: to tell story
Epic: long poems which tell about a heroic or important nature of a culture at that time
Dramatic: written in verse to be spoken or sung
Elegy: melancholy, mournful poetry, especially a lament for the dead or funeral song.
Sound in poetry
Rhythm is the most vital element of sound in poetry. The rhythm of each line is often arranged in a particular meter. Different types of meter play an important part in poetry in different eras.
Form in poetry
Specific type of form was created in different culture. For each forms, the rhyming scheme, meter and many other elements are different according to its form.
Sonnet: 14 lines poetry.
Shi: main type of Classical Chinese poetry
Villanelle: 19 line poem with five triplets and a closing quatrain.
Tanka: unrhymed Japanese poetry.
Haiku: popular form of Japanese poetry
Ode: first developed by poets in writing in ancient Greek.
Ghazal: form of poetry common in Arabic, Urdu, Bengali, Turkish, Persian and Azerbaijani
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