POETRY

Eng. Edu.
Nuning Wahyu, M. TESOL.
DEFINITION

A type of writing that uses

language to express imaginative
and emotional qualities instead
of or in addition to meaning.

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SKILLS NEEDED
• Poetry requires creativity
• Poetry requires emotion
• Poetry requires an artistic quality
• Poetry requires logic.

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PURPOSE

To express ideas, feelings and

emotions.

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Elements of Poetry: Lines and Stanzas

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Lines
Lines of poems are often organized
into stanzas which are denominated by the
number of lines included. Thus a collection of
two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines
a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, and
so on.

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Stanzas
In poetry, a stanza is used to describe the main building
block of a poem. It is a unit of poetry composed of lines
that relate to a similar thought or topic—like a paragraph
in prose or a verse in a song.

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Example

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Time to Practice

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Looking Away
Once there was
a young man
Who toured the world
Year after year
To marvel
At places and people
He had never seen

Until one day

Getting old
He walked back
And learn
The splendor
Of home
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Analyze the poem using these questions as guidelines

• What are the potential topics for the poem?

• How does travel help one rethinking home?

• Does one get wiser when they are older?

• Have you ever found yourself re-evaluating

a past experience (a place, a person, an event)

and see it in a different light?

• What happened that made you do so?

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