Poetry

Its Nature and Elements

Creative Writing
By: Roberto DC. Manuel
Poetry
is the art of rhythmical composition, written or
spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful,
imaginative, or elevated thoughts. (dictionary.com)

is writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative

awareness of experience in language chosen and
arranged to create a specific emotional response
through meaning, sound, and rhythm. (Merriam-
Webster)
 Poetry is when an
emotion has found its
thought and the thought
has found words.
Elements of Poetry
 Essential Elements

Subject Theme Moral

The idea or concept of the
The topic of the A practical lesson about
author expressed in a
poem. right and wrong conduct
concise statement. It
contained in the narrative.
concretizes the abstract idea
the writer wants to impart.
 Essential Elements

Persona Symbolism
The speaker of a poem. This A person, a place, a thing, or an
is a character taken on by a experience that represents
poet to speak in a first- something else.
person poem
 Essential Elements

Tone Mood Language

The attitude of the The feeling that the author Diction, imageries,
writer toward his creates in a literary work; figurative language,
subject synonymous with syntax
atmosphere.
 Sound Devices
Rhyme and Rhythm

Rhyme
refers to the presence of words that have identical or similar final sounds; the
reccurence of the same final sounds result in what is known as rhyme pattern
such as aabb (star-are-high-sky), abab (star-high-are-sky),
or abba (star-high-sky-are)
 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Internal Rhyme -exists

within a line.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door…
 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Terminal/End Rhyme -exists

at the end of the line

“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Perfect/Exact rhyme -words having identical final

sounds

rhyme - time
sound - round
final - fatal
 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Approximate/imperfect rhyme-words having similar or

approximate
final sounds
rhyme - thine
sound - count
final - fable
 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Eye rhyme-words having the same final letters with

differing
sounds.

come- home
Joan - loan
comb - tomb
 Sound Devices
Rhyme

Single/Masculine, Double/Feminine, Triple

high - sky
children - brethren
beautiful - wonderful; outrageous - courageous
 Sound Devices
Rhyme and Rhythm

Rhythm

refers to the regular succession of accented and unaccented

syllables in a line; associated with the metrical feet.
Thank You