Poetry through the Ages Poetic forms in Elizabethan, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Poetry.

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Poetry through the Ages Poetic forms in Elizabethan, Romantic, Victorian, and Modernist Poetry

History of Poetry from the Greek word poesis, which means “making,” or “creating.” Originally composed and shared orally; often set to music Commonalities with folktales Beowulf first known recorded English (old English) poem

Genres of Poetry Ballad: to be sung/recited; physical courage and love; about common people Sonnet: Italian/Petrarchan and English/Shakespearian; 14 lines (ending with rhyming couplet). abab cdcd efef gg Blank Verse: unrhymed but in iambic pentameter ( ĕé) Free Verse: does not follow set rhyme, meter, rhythm Lyric: often set to melody; focus on personal emotion

Poetry Timeline Elizabethan: Romantics: Victorians: Modernist: Post-modernist: 1980-

Elizabethan poetry Queen Elizabeth 1 st reigned from Bloody time in English history William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, Edmund Spenser most popular Sonnets, blank verse, narrative poems

Romantics Focus on: Libertariansim Nature and the sublime Alternate sources of truth and beauty The supernatural Popular Poets William Wordsworth, William Blake, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Victorian Focus on: Hope vs. Uncertainty Science vs. Spirituality The Rise of Women Popular Poets: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Browning, the Brönte sisters, Matthew Arnold, Christina Rosetti, Lord Alfred Tennyson

Modernist Focus on: Imagism Free verse Fundamental Spirituality Destruction and Darkness Self-reflection on art Popular poets: T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Emily Dickinson, e.e. cummings