1. POETRY
Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
~W.B. Yeats

3. Four Main Types of Poetry
Narrative
Lyric
Dramatic
Didactic

4. Narrative Poetry Narrative—a poem that tells a story.
Ex.: a ballad or an epic poem

5. Lyric Poetry
Lyric– a short poem expressing the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker
Lyric poems are usually easy to recognize
Lyric poems are often written in first-person
Traditionally, lyric poems have a songlike
immediacy and emotional force
Ex.: “The Red Wheelbarrow”

6. Dramatic Poetry Dramatic—a poem that presents the voice of an
imaginary character or characters
speaking directly, without any
additional narration by the author.
Strictly speaking, it describes any verse written
for the stage, but generally it refers to a poem
written as a speech made by a character
Ex: Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess”

7. Didactic Poetry
Didactic—a kind of poetry written with the purpose of imparting knowledge or teaching a moral lesson.
Ex: “Early to bed, early to rise
makes a man healthy, wealthy,
and wise.” ~Ben Franklin

8. What does good poetry do?
Engages the whole person through senses, emotion, imagination, or intellect.
Employs no excess words, but uses only those that bear their full weight in contributing to the total meaning of the poem.

9. More characteristics of good poetry
The diction, images, and figures of speech are fresh, not trite, except when irony is the purpose.
The “sound” doesn’t clash with its “sense,” or the form with its content.
Images and ideas are so effectively arranged (crafted) that any rearrangement would be harmful to the effectiveness of the poem.

10. ~Author unknown Quotable Quote 2
Poetry is a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language.
~Author unknown

11. Quotable Quote ~Author unknown
The greatness of a poem is in proportion to the range and depth and intensity of experience that it brings to us: its amount of life.
~Author unknown