Major Genres in

Textual Studies
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1.7. Metrical Typology
1.8. Automated Analysis of Poetic Texts and the Problem of Verse Meter
1.9. Concrete Character of Poetic Language
1.9.1. Lexical-Thematic Dimension
1.9.2. Visual Dimension
1.9.3. Rhythmic-Acoustic Dimension
1.10. New, Newer and Newest Poetry
1.11. Blood, Bread and Poetry: Gender and Poetics
1.12. Multiformalisms:Form and Contemporary Poetry
1.13. Politics and Poetics
1.14. Content-specific Electronic Writing:John Cayley, Jenny Weight, Ingrid
Ankerson and Maegan Sapnar, Reiner Strasser and M.D. Coverly
1.15. Electronic Experimentation and Language: Peter Finch and Trever Joyce
1.16. Poet's Playground: 'Flarf' Poetry
1.17. Documentation and Poetry: Mark Nowak’s Coal Mountain Elementary
1.18. Textured Information: Joshua Clover and Claudia Rankine
Introduction
POETRY is an art. Like music, painting, and
sculpture, it is a divine art. The poetic principle burns
within those who are gifted by nature with the true and the
ideal.

It is a part of their existence, a part of their being. There

are those who love music and spend their best days in its
study and composition.
The true poet finds delight in the
rhythmical creation of beauty. His
word pictures are paintings, his
ideals are modeled with the care
of a sculptor. He sees beauty in
the tinting of the flowers, the
waving of the grain, the cluster of
the trees, the babbling of the
brooks, the ripple of the rivers, the
rifting of the clouds, and the
twinkling of the stars.
The act, art, or practice of
composing poetic verse is
versification.
The word ‘' verse,’ ' in our
language, means a line of poetry.

A verse may be defined as a succession of articulate sounds, consisting of

words arranged in measured lines, constituting an order of accented and
unaccented syllables, disposed of according to the rules of the species of
poetry which the author intends to compose.
The polite literature of poetry is keeping almost as
many records of heroic events, and the heroes; of
inventions, and the inventors; of art, and the
artists; of social, domestic, religious, and
political life, and the actors —^as her sister prose.
Life's histories of love, adventure, romance,
grief, joy, adversity, hope, and pleasure—all are
woven together and told with unerring skill by a
poet.
Metrical
typology
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➜ Visualized themes
➜ Read the poem a and message
few times conveyed by the
➜ Research on the poem
author’s ➜ Evaluate poems
background parts and structure
➜ Unlock difficult and forms
words
➜ Identify figurative
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Nature and Background of Poetry
➜ Strong, accurate, interesting
➜ literature that evokes a
concentrated imaginative
awareness of experience
or a specific emotional
response through
language chosen and
arranged for its meaning,
sound, and rhythm
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words, well-placed, make the
reader feel the writer's emotion
and intentions. Choosing the
right words—for their meaning,
their connotations, their sounds,
even the look of them, makes a
poem memorable. The words
become guides to the feelings
that lie between the lines.
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➜ Majority of poems

presents ideas figuratively

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Poems create mental images on the readers mind
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Analyze the poem

Metrics and versification in poetry
➜ Meter (metre) a measurement of poetry based
on structural rhythm of a verse
➜ Is broken down into feet

➜ Foot is the basic unit of measurement of a

meter, it is the pattern of

➜ Stressed (accented) ➜ unstressed

(unaccented) syllables
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each poem
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Types of poem (structure)

➜ Sonnets are practically synonymous with
Shakespeare, but there are actually two different kinds
of this famous poetic form. Having originated in 13th
century Italy, the sonnet usually deals with love and has
two common forms: the Petrarchan (named for its
famous practitioner, the poet Petrarch) and the
Shakespearean (also known as the English sonnet).
Each type contains 14 lines but comes with its
own set of rules
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Types of poem (structure)

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