List of basic poetry topics

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Poetry is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its ostensible meaning.

The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry:

Poetry Portal

Contents

[edit] Essence of poetry

Main article: Poetry

[edit] Types of poetry

[edit] Common poetic forms

Sonnet - Jintishi - Villanelle - Tanka - Ode - Ghazal - Haiku

[edit] Periods, styles and movements

For movements see List of poetry groups and movements.

Automatic poetry - Black Mountain - Chanson de geste - Concrete poetry - Cowboy poetry - Digital poetry - Epitaph - Erasure poetry - Fable - Found poetry - Haptic Poetry - Imagism - Libel - Limerick poetry - Lyric poetry - Metaphysical poetry - Medieval poetry - Minnesinger - The Movement - Narrative poetry - Objectivist - Occasional verse - Odes and Elegies - Parnassian - Pastoral - Performance poetry - Poetry slam - Post-modernist - Romanticism - San Francisco Renaissance - Sound poetry - Symbolism - Troubadour - Trouvère - Visual poetry - Painted Poems

[edit] History of poetry

Main article: History of poetry
Painted poems

[edit] Basic elements of poetry

Main article: Meter (poetry)
Accents - Couplets - Elision - Feet - Intonation - Meter - Moras - Prosody - Rhythm - Scansion - Stanzas - Syllables - Caesura

[edit] Methods of creating rhythm

Main articles: Timing (linguistics), tone (linguistics), and pitch accent
See also Parallelism, inflection, intonation, foot

[edit] Scanning meter

Main articles: Scansion and Systems of scansion
  • spondee — two stressed syllables together
  • iamb — unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable
  • trochee — one stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable
  • dactyl — one stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables
  • anapest — two unstressed syllables followed by one stressed syllable

The number of metrical feet in a line are described in Greek terminology as follows:

[edit] Common metrical patterns

Main article: Meter (poetry)

[edit] Rhyme, alliteration and assonance

Alliteration - Alliterative verse - Assonance - Consonance - Internal rhyme - Rhyme

[edit] Rhyming schemes

Main article: Rhyme scheme
Chant royal - Ottava rima - Rubaiyat

[edit] Stanzas and verse paragraphs

Main article: stanza

[edit] Poetic diction

Main article: Poetic diction

[edit] Poetics

Main article: Poetics

[edit] Famous poems and poets

Main article: List of poets

[edit] Poetry lists

Main article: Glossary of poetry terms

[edit] References

  1. ^ Two versions of Paradise Lost are freely available on-line from Project Guttenberg, Project Gutenberg text version 1 and Project Gutenberg text version 2.
  2. ^ The original text, as translated by Samuel Butler, is available at Wikisource.[1]
  3. ^ The full text is available online both in Russian[2] and as translated into English by Charles Johnston.[3] Please see the pages on Eugene Onegin and on Nabokov's Notes on Prosody and the references on those pages for discussion of the problems of translation and of the differences between Russian and English iambic tetrameter.
  4. ^ The full text of "The Raven" is available at Wikisource[4].
  5. ^ The full text of "The Hunting of the Snark" is available at Wikisource.[5]
  6. ^ The full text of Don Juan is available on-line.[6]
  7. ^ See the Text of the play in French as well as an English translation, Phaedra, available at Project Gutenberg.

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