Commission Higher Education

Daraga Community College

Salvacion, Daraga, Albay

Course: MC English 2
Course title: Strategies and techniques that foster the reading- writing connection
Topic: Poetry writing
Discussant: Cristian Latoga
Professor: Dr. Salve R. Keh
Year/Block: III B22
Term: 1 Semester
Day/Time:

Poetry

•Derived from L. "poema", which means, "composition in verse"

•A composition, usually in verse, characterized by imaginative language and thoughts
•A piece of writing that usually has figurative language and that is written in separate
lines that often have a repeated rhythm and sometimes rhyme
•A piece of writing in striking language or showing imagination or beauty of thought,
which may or may not be in metre

Greatest Poets in the World

1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616

Sonnet 18

Except:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too short hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dim'd.
And every fair from sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd:...

Poetry vs. Poem

▷Poetry is the use of words and language to evoke a writer's feelings and thoughts,
while a poem is the arrangement of these words

▷Poetry is the process of creating literary piece using metaphor, symbols and ambiguity,
while a poem is the result of this process

▷Poetry is a literary form, whereas a poem is a written piece of work

▷Poetry is an artform, whereas a poem is composed work

▷Poetry is a literary art of writing poem, while a poem is the fundamental unit of poetry
▷Poetry is collected work, while a poem is individual work

▷Poetry is secondary imagination, whereas a poem is primary imagination

Elements of Poetry

1. Mood-reader's feelings
2. Tone- author's feelings toward poem subject
3. Symbolism- when something represents or stands for something else
4. Meter- the rhythm or beat established by poem
5. Rhyme -words have the same ending sound
6. Figurative language-simile, metaphor. hyperbole, idiom, personification, etc.
7. Connotation- suggesting of a meaning by a word, apart from the thing it explicitly
names or describes
8. Denotation- a direct specific meaning as distinct from an implied or associated idea
9. Repetition-author repeats a word, line, or phrase for
10. Alliteration-words have the same beginning sound

Different Types of Poetry

1. Villanelle

>A chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes

>It consists typically of five tercets and quatrain
>The first and third lines of the opening tercet recur/repeat alternately at the end of the
other tercets and together as the last two lines of a quatrain
>Tercet is a unit or group of three lines of verse
>Quatrain is a four-line poem or verse

2. Terza Rima

>Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri

>The first and third lines rhyming with one another
>The second lines rhyming with the first and third of the following tercet
>The series ends with a line that rhymes with the second line of the last stanza
>The rhyme scheme is aba, bcb, cdc... yzy, z

3. Sestina

>a lyrical fixed form consisting of six stanzas of 6-line

>Usually unrhymed stanzas
>The end words of the first stanza recur as:
1. end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order (end word
pattern) and
2. as the middle and end words of the three
verses of the concluding tercet
Envoi (a.k.a. "tornado.)

> A concluding seventh stanza has three lines called "envoi" (a.k.a. "tomada")
>Must include the remaining three end words, BDF, in the course of the three lines so
that all six recurring words appear in the final three lines

4. Senryu

>a 3-line unrhymed Japanese poem structurally similar to haiku but treating human
nature usually in an ironic or satiric vein

5. Rondeau

>a fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds

>consisting usually of lines 15 lines, each of which contains eight and 10 syllables
>the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as a refrain that will be
repeated in the last line of the second and third stanzas

6. Burlesque

>a literary or dramatic work that seeks to ridicule by means of grotesque exaggeration
or comic imitation

7. Lambic Pentameter

> a metrical foot in which an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable

Example:
Sonnet 64
By: William Shakespeare

Importance of Poetry in Teaching-Learning Process

>Poetry helps us know each other and build a community

>When read aloud, poetry is rhythm and music and sounds and beats
>Poetry opens venues for speaking and listening
>Poetry has space for English language learners
>Poetry builds resilience in kids and adults; it fosters socio-emotional learning