Classica

l Poetry
Poetry- Beautiful words in beautiful order
Prose- combination of words in order
Poetry Prose
Poetry pays attention to rhyme Prose doesn’t pays attention to
and rhythm; they are the rhyme and rhythm.
essential components in a poem.
Ideas are written in sentences; Ideas are written in lines; lines are
sentences are grouped into grouped into stanzas.
paragraphs.
It can be sung. It can’t be sung.

Poetry
 It is one of the oldest genre in literary history.
Poetry is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and rhythmic qualities
of language to evoke meaning. Factors such as rhyme, rhythm, metric
syllables, etc. are taken into account to create poetry. Poetry is normally
used to express something in an artistic and aesthetic way.

Prose
Prose is a major form of literature; both fiction and nonfiction are
included in prose. Novels, novellas, short stories, biographies,
autobiographies, memoirs, essays, travel books, academic essays,
thesauruses, textbooks, etc. are all written in prose.

Classicism
Classic- Outstanding nature
 Any work of outstanding nature.
 Period of time that is considered from ancient Greek.

Chaucer Pope
Classical poetry

Thus Classicism can be defined as

1) Roman----Greek, Greek----Latin
2) Work of outstanding nature
3) Established and Recognized value

Genres of Poetry
 Figures of Speech

Figures of speech basically deal with the vehicles which primarily make the
expression of language more beautiful and effective. The author in poetry, using
these devices; metaphors, images, symbols, personification, etc. can deliver the
message indirectly to the readers.
Gautam (2014) points out, “A figure of speech is a way of saying something
other than the literal way. It adds extra dimensions to language and reveals one
thing by relating it to something else”.
In the words of Gray (2008, p. 120) “Any form of expression or grammar which
deviates from the plainest expression of meaning is designated a figure of
speech”.
Representative figures of speech
Some of the representative types of figures of speech have been introduced.

Simile 
A simile compares two things by saying they are “like” each other; the subject
IS LIKE the object.

A Red, Red Rose

By Robert Burns

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

  That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
  That’s sweetly played in tune………

Metaphor
A metaphor compares one to another by saying one thing is another. 
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that states one thing is another
in order to help explain an idea or show hidden similarities. Unlike a simile that
uses "like" or "as" (you shine like the sun!), a metaphor does not use these two
words. For example, in a famous line from Romeo and Juliet, Romeo proclaims,
"Juliet is the sun." She isn't like or as the sun, she is the sun.

Personification: Giving a non-human, inanimate object the qualities of a person

(human attributes and feeling) is personification.
Example

. Ten thousand I saw at a glance, Tossing their hands in sprightly dance. (William
Wordsworth in Daffodils)
Irony: The difference between what is told and what is done is irony
It is the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite
of the literal meaning.
Example
 Walking into an empty theater and asking, “it’s too crowded”
 Describing someone who says foolish things a “genius”