- Outline of poetry
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The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry:
Poetry – a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning.
Contents
Types of poetry
Common poetic forms
Periods, styles and movements
For movements see List of poetry groups and movements
- Automatic poetry
- Black Mountain
- Chanson de geste
- Classical Chinese poetry
- Concrete poetry
- Cowboy poetry
- Digital poetry
- Ecopoetry
- Epitaph
- Erasure poetry
- Fable
- Flarf
- Found poetry
- Haptic Poetry
- Imagism
- Libel
- Limerick poetry
- Lyric poetry
- Metaphysical poetry
- Medieval poetry
- Minnesinger
- The Movement
- Narrative poetry
- Objectivist
- Occasional poetry
- Odes and Elegies
- Parnassian
- Pastoral
- Performance poetry
- Poetry slam
- Post-modernist
- Romanticism
- San Francisco Renaissance
- Sound poetry
- Symbolism
- Troubadour
- Trouvère
- Visual poetry
History of poetry
Main article: History of poetryElements of poetry
Main article: Meter (poetry)- Accents
- Couplets – a pair of lines of meter in poetry. It usually consists of two lines that rhyme and have the same meter. While traditionally couplets rhyme, not all do.
- Elision
- Feet
- Intonation
- Meter
- Moras
- Prosody
- Rhythm
- Scansion
- Stanzas
- Syllables
- Caesura
Methods of creating rhythm
- See also Parallelism, inflection, intonation, foot
Scanning meter
Main article: Systems of scansion- spondee – two stressed syllables together
- iamb – unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
- trochee – one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
- dactyl – one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
- anapest – two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable
The number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows:
- dimeter – two feet
- trimeter – three feet
- tetrameter – four feet
- pentameter – five feet
- hexameter – six feet
- heptameter – seven feet
- octameter – eight feet
Common metrical patterns
Main article: Meter (poetry)- Iambic pentameter
- Example: Paradise Lost,[1] by John Milton
- Dactylic hexameter
- Iambic tetrameter
- Examples:
- To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell
- Eugene Onegin,[3] by Aleksandr Pushkin
- Examples:
- Trochaic octameter
- Example: The Raven,[4] by Edgar Allan Poe
- Anapestic tetrameter
- Examples:
- The Hunting of the Snark,[5] by Lewis Carroll
- Don Juan,[6] by Lord Byron
- Examples:
- Alexandrine – also known as iambic hexameter.
- Example: Phèdre,[7] by Jean Racine
Rhyme, alliteration and assonance
- Alliteration
- Alliterative verse
- Assonance
- Consonance
- Internal rhyme
- Rhyme
Rhyming schemes
Main article: Rhyme schemeStanzas and verse paragraphs
Main article: stanza- 2-line stanza: couplet or distich
- 3-line stanza: triplet or tercet
- 4-line stanza: quatrain
- 5-line stanza: quintain or cinquain)
- 6-line stanza: sestet
- 8-line stanza: octet
Poetic diction
Main article: Poetic dictionPoetics
Famous poets and their poems
Main articles: List of poets and List of poems- Anna Akhmatova
- Maya Angelou
- Ludovico Ariosto
- W. H. Auden
- Li Bai (李白)
- Basho (芭蕉松尾）
- William Blake
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Samuel Coleridge
- Dante
- Kamala Das
- Emily Dickinson
- John Donne
- Rita Dove
- John Dryden
- T. S. Eliot
- Ferdowsi
- Robert Frost
- Homer
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Horace
- Alfred Edward Housman
- Omar Kayyam
- John Keats
- Jan Kochanowski
- Ignacy Krasicki
- Mikhail Lermontov (Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов)
- John Milton
- Ovid
- Petrarch
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Raven
- Alexander Pope
- Ezra Pound
- Alexander Pushkin (Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Пу́шкин)
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Jalal ad-Din Rumi
- Shel Silverstein
- William Shakespeare
- Edmund Spenser
- Philip Sidney
- Tasso
- Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
- Walt Whitman
- William Wordsworth
- Virgil
- William Butler Yeats
See also
References
- ^ Two versions of Paradise Lost are freely available on-line from Project Guttenberg, Project Gutenberg text version 1 and Project Gutenberg text version 2
- ^ The original text, as translated by Samuel Butler, is available at Wikisource.s:The Iliad
- ^ The full text is available online both in Russian [1] and as translated into English by Charles Johnston.[2] Please see the pages on Eugene Onegin and on Nabokov's Notes on Prosody and the references on those pages for discussion of the problems of translation and of the differences between Russian and English iambic tetrameter.
- ^ The full text of "The Raven" is available at Wikisource s:The Raven (Poe)
- ^ The full text of "The Hunting of the Snark" is available at Wikisource.s:The Hunting of the Snark
- ^ The full text of Don Juan is available on-line
- ^ See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation,
External links
- Poems on Demand, Modern poetry
- Poetry Out Loud List of Poems
- Learning for a Cause, a non-profit educational organization that publishes the poetry and fiction of young writers under the age of eighteen.
- Poetry Collection, Poetry submitted by various poets.
- Poetry archives
- Love is Lonely
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