TYPES OF POETRY

TYPES OF POETRY

• Dramatic
• Lyric
• Narrative
 DRAMATIC POETRY

• Uses characters and discourse to tell a story

or depict a situation.
• This includes dramatic verse in plays like
Shakespeare’s works or those written by
Robert Browning of Alfred Tennyson.
 DRAMATIC POETRY

• Has elements related closely to the drama.

• It uses a dramatic technique and may unfold a
story.
• It emphasize the character rather than the narrative.
 DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE

• This is a combination of drama and poetry.

• It presents some line or speech of single character in a particular but
complicated situation and sometimes in a dilemma
• Soliloquy - The speaker of the poem or the character in a play delivers a passage. The
thoughts and emotions are heard by the author and the audience as well.
• Oration - This Is a formal address elevated in tone and usually delivered on some
notable occasion.
• Character Sketch - This is a poem which the writer is concerned less with the elements
of story. - He presents his observations and comments to a particular individual.
 LYRIC POETRY

• The most frequently occurring in modern poetry

• Concerned primarily with the expression of thought and
feeling.
• It includes poems from complex meditation to playful wit
• Includes poetic forms of ode and elegy.
 NARRATIVE POETRY

• Considered to be the oldest form with its roots in the oral

bardic tradition.
• Features of traditional ballads such as regular meter,
repetition and alliteration become aids to memorization
 SPECIAL TYPES OF POETRY

• Nursery rhymes • Elegy

• Limerick • Ode
• Sonnet • Free verse
• Haiku • Concrete poetry
• Renga • Ballad
• Cinquians • Nonsense verse
 DRAMATIC POETRY

• Has elements that closely relate it to drama, either

because it is written in some kind of dramatic
form, or uses a dramatic technique
• May also suggest a story, but there is more
emphasis on character rather than on the narrative
 FORMS OF DRAMATIC POETRY

• 1. Dramatic Monologue
• 2. Soliloquy
• 3. Character Sketch
 DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE

• It is a combination of drama and poetry

• Presents the speech of a single character “in a specific situation at a critical
moment”
• The speaker addresses one or more persons who are present and who are
listening to the speaker, but remain silent
• The speaker’s personality and character, his relationship to others, his sense of
values and attitudes towards life are indirectly gleaned from his monologue 
 SOLILOQUY

• A passage spoken by a speaker in a poem or a character in a play

• No one present to hear the speaker
• The thoughts expressed, the emotions displayed, and the revelations made,
freely and without inhibition, give deep insights into the character
• Used in poetic dramas to enrich and vivify characterization
• Inform the audience about other developments in the play
 CHARACTER SKETCH

• A poem in which “the writer is concerned less with matters of story, complete
or implied, than he is with arousing sympathy, antagonism, or merely interest
for an individual”
• Poet – serves as observer and commentator
• Incorporates the element of suspense, conflict, or tension 
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