Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a great example of an elegy Written by Thomas Gray the poem is 128 lines and it ends with an epitaph Epitaph Short poem intended as an inscription on a grave can serve as a brief elegy ID: 681054
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Elegy
Melancholy poem lamenting the death of the poem’s subject. Elegies often end with consoling messages.
“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a great example of an elegy. Written by Thomas Gray, the poem is 128 lines, and it ends with an “epitaph.” Slide2
Epitaph
Short poem intended as an inscription on a grave – can serve as a brief “elegy.”
“Upon
a Child That
Died” by
Robert Herrick
Here she lies, a pretty bud,
Lately made of flesh and blood,
Who as soon fell fast asleep
As her little eyes did peep.
Give her
strewings
, but not stir
The earth that lightly covers her.Slide3
Ode
Formal, ceremonious poem
Addresses & celebrates a person, place, object, idea, image or emotion
Stanza form variesSlide4
America, you ode for reality!
Give back the people you took.
Let the sun shine again
on the four corners of the worldyou thought of first but do notown, or keep like a convenience.People are your own word, youinvented that locus and term.Here, you said and say, iswhere we are. Give backwhat we are, these people you made,us, and nowhere but you to be.
“America” by Robert
CreeleySlide5
Hymn
A poem praising God or the divine. Hymns are often sung.
Julia Ward Howe’s “Battle Hymn of the Republic” is a famous example. Slide6
Sonnet
14-line poem; “sonnet” means “little song”
There are many types of sonnets, but the most famous is the English or Shakespearean Sonnet:
One stanza of three quatrains Ends with a couplet Rhyme scheme is: ABABCDCDEFEFGG The rhyme scheme can vary a bitSlide7
“America” by
Claude McKay
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth.Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,Giving me strength erect against her hate,Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,I stand within her walls with not a shredOf terror, malice, not a word of jeer.Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,And see her might and granite wonders there,Beneath the touch of Time’s unerring hand,Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.Slide8
Ballad
Popular poems, narratives (tell a story), began as an oral tradition. Ballads do have a rhyme scheme.
Edgar Allan Poe’s “Annabel Lee” is a ballad.Slide9
Villanelle
French verse form
Six stanzas
First five stanzas have three linesLast stanza is a quatrain (four lines)Includes a refrainHas a specific rhyme schemeSee examples:Slide10
The
art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.
—Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident
the art of losing’s not too hard to master
though it may look like (
Write it!) like disaster.
“One Art”
by
Elizabeth BishopSlide11
They
are all gone away,
The House is shut and still,
There is nothing more to say.Through broken walls and gray The winds blow bleak and shrill:They are all gone away.Nor is there one to-day To speak them good or ill:There is nothing more to say.Why is it then we stray Around the sunken sill?They are all gone away,And our poor fancy-play For them is wasted skill:There is nothing more to say.There is ruin and decay
In the House on the Hill:
They are all gone away,
There is nothing more to say.
“The House on the Hill”
by Edwin Arlington RobinsonSlide12
Japanese
Forms
Haiku
Three un-rhyming linesLine 1 is 5 syllablesLine 2 is 7 syllablesLine 3 is 5 syllablesOn a branchfloating downrivera cricket, singing. by Kobayashi Issa (translated by Jane
Hirshfield
)Slide13
Japanese
Forms
Tanka
Five lines with 31 syllables in all:5 syllables7 syllables5 syllables7 syllables7 syllablesSlide14
FOR SATORI
In the spring of joy,
when even the mud chuckles,
my soul runs rabid,snaps at its own bleeding heels, and barks: “What is happiness?”SOMBER GIRLShe never saw firefrom heaven or hotly fought with God; but her eyessmolder for Hiroshimaand the cold death of Buddha.
Two Tanka
by Philip
Appleman