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Literary Genres: 1-Poetry and Poetic Forms
Literary Genres: 1-Poetry and Poetic Forms
D.Elegy: A poem that laments the death of a particular person .e.g Milton’s Lycidas and Shelley’s Adonais.
E. Free Verse:
Free Verse cont. “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
Upon
a red wheel
Barrowg
lazed with rain
Water
beside the white
chickens
F. Haiku :is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables
(5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all. Haiku is usually written in the present tense and focuses on nature.i.e.
i.e. warm soup in a bowl
letters of the alphabet
hang on the teaspoon