LITERATURE

and POETRY
 LITERATURE
 Comes from the Latin word “LITERA” means “an
acquaintance with letters”.
 It is a body of work, either written, oral, or visual,
containing imaginative language that realistically
portrays thoughts, emotion, and experience of
human condition.
 A product of particular culture that concretizes
man’s array of values , emotions, actions and idea.
 LITERARY
STANDARDS
LITERARY
STANDARDS
 UNIVERSALITY
 ARTISTRY
 INTELLECTUAL VALUE
 SUGGESTIVENESS
 SPIRITUAL VALUE
 PERMANENCE
 STYLE
WHAT IS
POETRY
POETRY
 Literature that evokes a
concentrated imaginative
awareness of experience or a
specific emotional response
through language chosen and
arranged for its meaning,
sound, and rhythm.
TYPES OF
POETRY
1. LYRICAL POETRY

 Is a short poem which has the

characteristics of a song.
 It pertain to a single mood or feeling
and is more personal in nature.
LYRICAL POETRY - SONNET

 It is relatively short poem consisting of

merely fourteen lines. It is known to
follow a strict pattern of rhyme.
LYRICAL - ELEGY
 This is a lyric poem which expresses lament and
mourning of the dead, feeling of grief and melancholy.

Examples:
“Fugue of Death” – Paul Celan
“O Captain! My Captain!” – Walt Whitman
“To An Athlete Dying Young” – Alfred Edward
Housman
“Friend,” – Jean Valentine
“Elegy Written in A Country Churchyard” –
Thomas Grey
LYRICAL - ODE

 This is a poem of nobeling the feelings,

expressed with dignity and praises for some
persons, objects, events or ideas.
2. NARRATIVE

 Has special appeal.

 Describes event in a vivid
way, using some of the
elements as short stories,
plot characters and
dialogue.
NARRATIVE - EPIC

 A long story and narrative

poem that normally tells
a story about a hero or an
adventure.
 5 Greatest examples of epic poem

 1. Beowulf by Anonymous
 2. Metamorphose by Ovid
 3. The Odyssey by Homer
 4. Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
 5. The lliad by Homer
NARRATIVE - BALLAD

 It also tell story, and like

epic poems, however,
ballad poetry is often based
on a legend or a folk tale.
NARRATIVE - SOCIAL

 This either purely comic or

tragic and pictures the life
of today.
3. DRAMATIC POETRY

 Has element related closely

to drama.
 It uses dramatic technique
and may unfold story.
DRAMATIC POETRY – Dramatic
Monologue

 This is combination of a
drama and poetry.
DRAMATIC POETRY – Soliloquy

 The thoughts and emotions

are heard by the author
and the audience as well.
DRAMATIC POETRY – Character
Sketch

 This is a poem which the

writers is concerned less
with the elements of story.
4. SPECIAL TYPES OF POEMS

 HAIKU
 CINQUAIN
 FREE VERSE
 NAME POEM
SPECIAL TYPES OF POEMS - HAIKU

 It consist of three lines that

generally do not rhyme. The
line should have five,
seven, and five syllables in
them.
BASHo’s “ Old Pond”

Fu-ru-i-ke-ya
Ka-wa-zu-to-bi-ko-mu
Mi-zu-no-o-to

Old pond …
A frog leaps in
Water’s sound
SPECIAL TYPES OF POEMS -
CINQUAIN
 There are many different
variations of cinquain
including American cinquians,
didactic cinquains, reverse
cinquians, butterfly cinquians
and crown cinquians.
SPECIAL TYPES OF POEMS – FREE
VERSE
 A loosest type of poem.
 It consists as a many lines
as the writer wants and
either rhyme or not and has
no fixed metrical pattern.
5. Name poem

 A descriptive type of poetry

belong to descriptive that
use an adjective to describe
a person that begins with
each letter of that person’s
name.
 CARLA
 C is for Creative, always a joy
 A is for Adventurous and sparkling curiosity
 R is for Resourceful, nothing is impossible
 L is for Laughter , like an angel’s song
 A is for Active, cheerful and bright