Definition: Poems that wrote about someone who past away
Example:
On September the nineteenth 1586 in London Tower
When the bloom of his young life was decaying like a flower
Dying in the cool winds of the early Fall
In words his tragic life he did recall.
Significant: Elegy show an express sadness and resprect for the lost one.
Definition: Speaker is when the poem’s narrator personal expression and feeling are revealed.
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Significant: Speakers help the reader to have an emotions or a feelings of the poets. And that will make the reader have a stronger perspective of the poems.
The teapot sang as the water boiled
The ice cubes cackled in their glass
the teacups chattered to one another.
While the chairs were passing gas
The gravy gurgled merrily
As the oil danced in a pan.
Oh my dinnertime chorus
What a lovely, lovely clan!
Significance: personification helps the reader to visual object as a human.
Definition: A comparision that use connected words like: "As or like"
Examples:
“Twinkle, twinkle little star,How I wonder what you are Up above the world so high,Like a diamond in the sky.”
Significance: Similes are used to decribe things and make the poems can be visulize. While reading simile poems, we can imagine like a lion being a rabbit. Or the moon being a coin in the sky.
Definition: is a comparision but do not use connected words like: "as or like"
Examples: Mr. Blake is the heart of the basketball team.
Significance: Metaphor makes the reader to visualize what is happening.
We can also think in a strong perspective if the poems include metaphor.
Usually metaphor include in children books
Definition: Use of senses so that the reader can have a visual of what going on by using descriptive language
Example:
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells
Significance: Imagery helps you to visualize and have a better view towards poem. Imagine an image also helps in create mood and tone which contribute the meaning.
Definition: is a type of literature that express your feelings through rhythm and style.
Example:
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Significance: Poetry is not just an ordernary literature. Poetry can also be use to express your feeling, you can always get a feelings after reading a poems