POETRY

POETRY

Poetry can be defined as follows:

Poetry is a composition that evokes emotions and imagination by the use of vivid, intense Language usually arranged in a pattern of words or lines with a regular repeated accent or stress.

 Poetry is a composition that is characterized by special use of Language and rhythm, rhymes, imagery, metaphor, symbol, onomatopoeia, meter and various repetitions.

Poetry is the writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experiences, chosen and arranged in a particular pattern to create specific emotional response through its meaning, sound and rhythm.

Poetry is a literary genre that uses Language in a special way by employing a lot of figurative expressions.  Poetry is a literary genre that in line and metrical form which is sharper in figurative Language use and very economical in the amount of words used compared to other genres.

Poetry is a way of expressing feelings, emotions, ideas and other things that we experience, using Language characterized by imagery and rhythmical sounds.

DEVICES USED IN POETRY

1. Stanza

2. Verse

3. Refrain

4. Rhyme

5. Rhyming pattern/ rhyming scheme

6. Tone

7. Mood

8. Voice

9. Persona

10. Poet

POETIC DEVICES These are features that define poetry (poems) or are devices used to show how the poem is constructed. There are three poetic devices;

i.                    SENSE DEVICES is termed as the sense because it brings image to the mind of the reader of the poem. This involves all devices that create the picture in the mind of the reader or o an individual when reading a poem. All figurative or imagery languages are called sense devices these include;

                                I.            Hyperbole,

                             II.            Understatement/litotes,

                          III.            Allusion,

                          IV.            Irony,

                             V.            Metaphor,

                          VI.            Simile,

STRUCTURAL DEVICES These are devices that determine the structure of the poem, showing how the poem is formed or structure. For instance

v  Repetition

v  Stanza

v  Verse

v  Polysyndeton

v  Asyndeton

ii.                  SOUND DEVICES These are devices that detect sound in the poem, the make the poem to be sung

v  Alliteration

v  Assonance

v  Consonance

v  Onomatopoeia, etc

FEATURES OF POETRY

·         Poetry is imaginative

·         It is rhythmical or metrical in form

·         It is reflective/reflects experiences

·         It is rich in figures of speech or figurative Language

·         It arouses emotions

·         It implies the use of lines/verses in stanza

·         It uses repetitive sounds, especially similar sounds like anadiplosis and parallelism

·         Implies poetic license i.e. allows grammatical errors

·         It uses concentrated/condensed Language or it is very economical in the amount of words