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| Poem of praise or blame; could also be an encomium for one's beloved |
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| Poem in which characters brag about their exploits; found often in oral lit like ballads and epics (such as Beowulf). |
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| Pastoral writing dealing with rural life in a formal and fanciful manner. |
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Section or division of a long poem.
Originally meant a part of a narrative poem meant to be sung at one time by a minstrel. |
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Carmen Figuratum
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Shaped verse
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Figure or Pattern poem |
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Written so that the form of the printed words suggests the subject matter.
Ex. mOon or bOsOm |
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| Combines dance and poetry |
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Poems designed to complement each other.
Ex. Milton's "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained"
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Lyric poem from Middle Ages and Renaissance; laments the unresponsiveness of a poet's mistress, bemoans his unhappy lot, regrets the sorry state of the world.
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Exploits the graphic, visual aspect of writing.
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| Painful display of private, personal emotions. |
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| Represents usually one side of a conversation, involves satire |
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| Attempts to do in verse what this type of painter does on a canvas, taking the elements of an experience, fragmenting them and arranging them in a meaningful new synthesis. |
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| Elizabethan mode defined defined by Louis Martz as a "rapid sequence of analogies." |
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| Poetry meant to teach a lesson. |
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| Rude verse. Poorly executed attempt at poetry. |
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| Poem using dialogue, monologue (elements of the theater) |
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| Originated in Jamaica around 1975 with words improvised to a background of recorded music. |
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| One of a group of lines printed stepwise across and down a page. |
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| Formal poem setting forth meditations on death or another solemn theme. |
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| Poetry written for special occasions, primarily for the enjoyment and the edification of its audience. |
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| Poem written to celebrate a wedding. |
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| Poem about farming and rustic life. |
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Short, descriptive, narrative, pastoral.
From the pov of a civilized, artificial society looking through a window over green meadows. |
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| Poem expressing grief--more intense and more personal than a complaint. |
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| Song or short narrative poem |
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| Brief poem creating a single, unified impression. Marked by imagination, melody and emotion. Concerns thoughts and feelings. |
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| Dramatic form used to express lyric themes |
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| Poetry written to be accompanied by the lyre or flute. |
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Poem telling a story
ex. epics, ballads, romances |
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| Poem about shepherds or rustic life. |
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| Uses pastoral imagery to express grief at the loss of an important person. |
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| A medieval dialogue in which a shepherdess is wooed by a man of higher social rank. |
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| Short introductory poem prefixed to a long poem. |
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| Poem with both margins justified. |
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| Poem in which succeeding rhyme words have inital sounds or letters pared away: charm, then harm, then arm |
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Has a certain number of syllables/line and the same number of lines/stanza.
Ex. 12 lines with 12 syllables each. |
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| Poetry in which the "fundamental subject is some particular landscape." |
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| lyrical poem, song or ballad. A short poem of equal stanzas and an envoy of fewer lines than the stanza. |
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| poetry free from conceptualized statement or moral preachment; or those portions of a poem remaining after such materials as can be paraphrased adequately in prose are removed. |
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| in Greek means "selection" and was applied to various kinds of poems. It is a formal pastoral poem with these elements: the singing match, the rustic dialogue, two "rude swains" engaged in banter, the dirge or lament for a dead shepherd, the love-lay, a shepherd singing a song of courtship, and the eulogy. |
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| a trope, meaning a "swerving away," describes the inaugural gesture of a typical "strong" post-Enlightenment lyric |
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| work of 17th century poets who were revolting against the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry, in particular the Petrarchan conceit. Used simple diction and imagery from common, rough speech. |
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| certain kinds of metaphysical poetry of the 16th and 17th centuries that yoke religious meditation with Renaissance poetic techniques, usually dealing with memorable moments of self-knowledge and of union with some transcendent reality. |
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| poem lighthearted in tone; graceful, melodious and polished in manner; artfully showing Latin classical influences; sometimes licentious (racey) and cynical or epigrammatic and witty |
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| poem in praise of a living person, object, or event but not a god; delivered before a special audience |
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| Japanese poem stating in three lines of 5,7,5 syllables, a clear picture designed to arouse a distinct emotion and suggest a specific spiritual insight. |
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| Same form as a haiku, 17 syllables arranged in lines of 5,7,5, but a different spirit, relying on humor or satire rather than conventions related to certain seasons |
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Japanese poem with 31 syllables, arranged in five lines, each of 7 syllables, except the first and third, which are of 5 syllables, so...
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