FEEL THE EMOTIONS

3 MAIN ELEMENTS
OF POETRY
What is Poetry?

It is the use of words and language to

evoke a writer's feelings and thoughts.
3 MAIN ELEMENTS OF POETRY

SENSE
SOUND
POETIC STRUCTURE
 Sense
 Refers to the meaning poetry conveys.
 Poetry speaks to the senses. It uses a lot
of images that relate to sense impressions.
SENSE ORGAN DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES

Visual - sense of sight eyes size, shpe, color pink raisins

Auditory - sense of ears loud, noisy, silent rustling leaves
sound
Olfactory - sense of nose fragrant, fresh, acrid pungent air
smell
Gustatory - smell of tongue sweet, creamy, hot succulent flesh
taste
Tactile - sense of skin texture, fine, rough smooth skin
touch
 SOUND
 Poetry sound different. Aside from using as one of the
five sense, poetry still employs a lot of sounds devices.
Some of the sounds devices are the following.
SOUND DEVICE MEANING EXAMPLE
Alliteration repetition of initial Far from the farm
consonant sounds Sing some songs
Assonance repetition of vowel sounds Oh my? why should I?
Man ban the scam
Anaphor repetition of beginning Sing to me your love
word, phrase Sing my lovely muse
End Rhyme repetition of line ending The song we sing
sounns High hopes will bring
Onomatopoeia use of words whose sound The buzz of bees
makes you think of their Roaring thunder
meaning
 STRUCTURE
• Poetry looks different from prose. Poems are written
in a lines and stanza. The structure gives the shape of
a poem.
Poetic Structure Meaning Example
Verse a name for a line poetry monometer,dimeter,
written in meter trimeter, tetrameter,
pentameter, haxameter,
heptameter
Stanza a division of a poem named couplet, quatrain, sestet,
for the number of lines it septet, octave
contains
Direction: Kindly write a short poem consist of 4
lines, any topic will do.

Example:
A pretty good day
A pretty new friend
Headache in the start
Surprises in the end
Direction: Write an example for each given sounds device.

1. Alliteration
2. Assonance
3. Onomatopoeia
4. Anaphor
5. End Rhyme