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PREPARED BY: CRESELDA D. GILIG, LPT

 MODULE NO.3
READING AND WRITING POETRY

LESSON AND COVERAGE

In this module, you will take the following:

Lesson 5: POETRY and its Elements
Lesson 6: Types of Poetry

In this lesson, you will learn to:

- Identify the various elements poetry and it’s specific forms of poetry
Lesson 5

- Know the different types of poetry

Lesson 6

EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOME

To do well in this module, you need to:
1. Identify the elements and specific forms of poetry in the given examples.

LEARNING EXPERIENCES

LEARNING ACTIVITIES SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS

- Answer TASK SHEET NO.3.1 and TASK SHEET NO.3.2

- Read information sheet No.
and submit thru giligcreselda92@gmail.com ,
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- Read information sheet No.
Creative Writing or submit your output on our
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scheduled meeting
 INFORMATION SHEET NO.3.1
POETRY and its Elements

Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek poiesis, “making”) is a form of literature that uses
aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language – such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism,
and metre – to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

THE ELEMENTS OF POETRY

The basic elements of poetry include the speaker, content, theme, shape and form, mood
or tone, imagery, diction, figurative language and sound-effect devices.

1. Speaker.
The poem’s speaker is the person who is addressing the reader. Sometimes, the
speaker is the poet, who addresses the reader directly or another person.

2. Content.
Content is the subject of the poem. It answers the question “what?”

3. Theme.
The theme of the poem is the meaning of the poem – the main idea that the
poet is trying to communicate.

4. Shape and Form.

Basically, the actual shape and form of poems can vary dramatically from poem
to poem. In poetry, you will encounter two forms: structured and free verse.
 5. Mood or Tone.
The mood or tone of a poem is the feeling that the poet creates and that the
reader senses through the poet’s choice of words, rhythm, rhyme, style and structure.

6. Imagery.
Imagery refers to the “pictures” which we perceive with our mind’s eyes, ears,
nose, tongue, skin, and through which we experience the “duplicate world” created by
poetic language.

INFORMATION SHEET NO.3.2

TYPES OF POETRY

TYPES OF POETRY
Poetry can be classified into three types: narrative, lyric, and dramatic poetry.

1. NARRATIVE POETRY
In other words, a narrative poem tells a story, but it does it with poetic flair. Here are
some elements of narrative poetry that are important:
 Character,
 Setting,
 conflict
 Plot
 KINDS OF NARRATIVE POETRY

 Epic. An epic is a long unified narrative poem, recounting in dignified language the
adventures of a warrior, a king or a god, the whole embodying the religious and
philosophical beliefs, the moral code, customs, traditions, manners, attitudes, sciences,
folklore and culture of the people or country from which it came.

 Metrical Romance. A metrical romance recounts the quest undertaken by a single

knight in order to gain a lady’s favor.
 Metrical Tale. A metrical tale is a simple, straightforward story in verse.

 Ballad. A ballad is a narrative poem which is meant to be sung, usually composed in the
ballad stanza.

2. LYRIC POETRY
Lyric poetry is generally considered the most intense genre of poetry, the form that
honors its musical origins.

KINDS OF LYRIC POETRY

Ode. An ode is a dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying
an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than
emotionally.
Elegy. An elegy is a lyric poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or
lamentation, usually for one who has died.
Sonnet. A sonnet is a short poem with fourteen lines, usually written in iambic
pentameter.
Song. A song is a lyric poem which is set to music. All songs have a strong beat created
largely through the 3R’s: rhythm, rhyme, and repetition.
 Simple Lyric. A simple lyric is a short poem expressing the poet’s thought, feeling, or
emotion.

3. DRAMATIC POETRY
Dramatic poetry presents one or more characters speaking, usually to other characters,
but sometimes to themselves or directly to the reader.

KINDS OF DRAMATIC POETRY

 Dramatic Monologue. It is a literary device that is used when a character reveals

his or her innermost thoughts and feelings, those that are hidden throughout
the course of the story line, through a poem or a speech.
 Soliloquy. A soliloquy is the act of speaking while alone, especially when used as
a theatrical device that allows a character’s thoughts and ideas to be conveyed
to the audience.
 TASK SHEET NO.3.1
Name: _______________________________ Score:_______________________
Date answer:________________________ Date check:_________________

TEST I: Multiple Choice

Directions: Read and analyze the questions. Choose and underline the letter of your
answer.

1. This is the subject of the poem

a. form c. speaker
b. content d. imagery
2. It is the feeling created on the poem.
a. theme c. speaker
b. language d. mood
3. This commonly refers to pictures that touches or senses.
a. characters c. theme
b. mood d. imagery
4. This is the poet’s choice of words.
a. diction c. creativity
b. content d. theme
5. One of the three main groups of poetry that tells a series of events through poetic devices.
a. spoken words c. lyric poetry
b. dramatic poetry d. narrative poetry
6. A long unified narrative poem that shows heroic life of the protagonist.
a. epic c. metrical romance
b. fairy tale d. metrical tale
7. It is a dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem praising and glorifying an individual,
commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally.
a. ode c. elegy
b. sonnet c. None of these choices
8. It is a literary device that is used when a character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and
feelings, those that are hidden throughout the course of the story line, through a poem or a
speech.
a. dramatic monologue c. speech choir
b. narrative poetry d. soliloquy
9. This is a lyric poem, written in elegiac couplets, that expresses sorrow or lamentation, usually
for one who has died.
a. song c. sonnet
 b. elegy c. ode
10. The most common role played by the protagonist in an epic.
a. hero c. professor
b. villain d. helper
11. The English Sonnet is developed by Shakespeare.
a. not at all c. true
b. maybe d. false
12. A metric tale is a narrative poem which is meant to be sung, usually composed in stanzas.
a. false c. true
b. maybe d. never
13. It involves a marked difference between what one says or expects and what is actually
meant or what actually happens.
a. irony c. metrical romance
b. imagery d. alliteration
14. This is where lines end in similar sounds.
a. rhyme c. flashback
b. symbolism d. imagery
15. The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables into repeating patterns within lines
a. epic c. rhythm
b. meter d. caesura
16. This is commonly represented by symbols.
a. expressionism c. figurative language
b. imagery d. symbolism
17. This answers the question: “why did I read this?”
a. voice c. repetition
b. intention d. language
18. This always brings bad luck to the hero. Also, it brings the conflict to the entire epic.
a. villain c. heroine
b. fairy d. hero
19. Why do you write poetry?
a. for expression c. for understanding
b. for advertisement d. for compliance
20. This is the most common theme in poetry.
a. love and romance c. congratulatory
b. death d. glorify
 TASK SHEET NO.3.2
Name: _______________________________ Score:_______________________
Date answer:________________________ Date check:_________________

Test I:
Directions:
Identify the elements and specific forms/types of poetry in the given examples.

1. (Joyce Kilmer, Trees)

I think that I shall never see –> A

a poem lovely as a tree…–> A
poems are made by fools like me,–> B
but only God can make a tree.–> B
Elements:
Form/Type:

2. (Alan Ginsberg, Howl)

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,

starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking
for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking…

Elements:
Form/Type:

3. (Basho, A Lovely Sunset)

In the twilight rain,
these brilliant-hued hibiscus –
A lovely sunset

Elements:
Form/Type:
4. (Ō no Yasumaro, While you Decline to Cry )
“While you decline to cry,
high on the mountainside
a single stalk of plume grass wilts.”
Elements:
Form/Type:

5. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha)

“By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited…”
Elements:
Form/Type:

6. (Walt Whitman, After the Sea-Ship)

“After the Sea-Ship—after the whistling winds;
After the white-gray sails, taut to their spars and ropes,
Below, a myriad, myriad waves, hastening, lifting up their necks,
Tending in ceaseless flow toward the track of the ship:
Waves of the ocean, bubbling and gurgling, blithely prying…”
Elements:
Form/Type:

7. (John Keats, La Belle Dame sans Merci)

“O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing …

And this is why I sojourn here

Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is wither’d from the lake,
And no birds sing.”
Elements:
Form/Type: