Participants will leave with tools necessary for identifying the modes of other kinds of texts. In addition to familiarizing participants with various forms of poetry, I will introduce them to key terms in poetic analysis, such as meter, stanza, and form. Participants will learn how to identify the modes of poetry by reading examples from classic and contemporary poets discuss what kind of effect these modes have on readers and analyze how different types of poems are used to express specific ideas about life and love. We will also study how different types of poems are used to express specific ideas about life and love. In this workshop, we will define and read examples of the four main forms of poetry (lyric, narrative, argument, and description). It is a weekly feature that professes our love for anything that is presented in a numbered or bulleted form, paving the way for a happy weekend.Identifying the modes of poetry is an underutilized approach of determining why they please (or do not satisfy) the reader. Which poems do you love the best? Do share your favourites!įriday L isticles‘, are running into their second month. If you can keep your head when all about you There is no comprehensive description of the guiding principles that a man ought to follow than in If by Rudyard Kipling. Character as in Ethics, the principles that we live by. This narrative poem is recited by Tweedledee and Tweedledum to the protagonist Alice, in the book, Through the Looking Glass.Ħ. There is personification of these characters and the nonsense verses are fun. And yet, written for children, The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Caroll, the absurd and the impossible happen through the story of a walrus, a carpenter and oysters. Much of poetry is like that to the readers especially when the verses are profound. Absurdity, the implausible and the incomprehensible. It underscores acceptance self acceptance, acceptance of others and knowledge that should be shared.ĥ. This poem, Masks by Shel Silverstein, written for children, has a profound message for adults as well. Love, appreciation and acceptance are what we crave for. Acceptance, what we as humans need the most. Read the poem with another two epigrams here.Ĥ. Kennedy, in just three lines, the poet talks of travel, friends and pomposity. In the little epigram, To Someone Who Insisted I look Up Someone by X. Pretension, the thing we do when we try to come up to others expectations and the norms set by society. Simply, gently, the poet reminds us of the clock that is ticking away.ģ. It hints at the regret men have as they dream and never get down to doing the things that they dream of. Dog Days by Derek Mahon examines the ways we live our lives, how days seem never ending and yet the years fly by. Time can be fickle, it can be on our side and it can slip away while we wonder what happened. Transcience, as depicted by time, the great healer, the quicksilver entity, the unit that we use to measure our lives. I love thee to the level of everyday’s Most quiet need, by sun and candle light.Ģ. The spectrum of love that the poem covers is amazing and is described so maturely. It is about the beloved and yet it transcends a person. This sonnet is about the quality of love, the sublime heights and the unfathomable depths of feeling. In How do I love thee, let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the poet talks of love in many different ways. Love, the emotion that makes the world go round. Here are some of the poems that I love for the moods they evoke.ġ. There are so many emotions and moods that the poetic form expresses, bringing us closer to the deeper feelings within.
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