Project in English 4

Submitted by:
Ian Daniel Boc

Submitted to: Mrs. Jheinena Cimafranca Clarin

Types of Poetry 1. Ballad - A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain.
Ballata 5
That which befalls me in my Lady's presence
Bars explanation intellectual.
I seem to see a lady wonderful
Spring forth between her lips, one whom no sense
Can fully tell the mind of,and one whence
Another, in beauty, springeth marvelous,
From whom a star goes forth and speaketh thus:
'Now my salvation is gone forth from thee.

2. Epic - is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation. Crooked Spines by Kevin Robey

Useless waste of space
These tainted dreams of mine
Burning in this place
These crooked spines of mine

I used my sleeve for make believe
Wore it proud to show you how
Deceive your mind so you can see
These broken dreams I’m breathing now

Believe me please I’m so strung out
Replay these words when I am gone
I want to shout and end this drought
Famine of smiles, this is the dawn

Sweet release don’t fail me now
Take me from this blinding rain
Give me resolve only faith allows
To hold the reigns of runaway trains

Can’t bow down to the blinding force
Of my demise down this lonely trail
Where self-defeat’s the ending source
Of misplaced love sown in my sails

Dead end roads are found here every day
My troubled mind; a study of extremes
Fake a laugh when the skies are grey
I’ll close my eyes, and dream another dream

3. Conceit - is a figure of speech in which two vastly different objects are likened together with the help of similes or metaphors. It develops a comparison which is exceedingly unlikely but is, nonetheless, intellectually imaginative.

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne

If they be two, they are two so As stiff
Twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’ other do.

And though it in the center sit,
Yet, when the other far doth roam,
It leans, and hearkens after it,
And grows erect, as that comes home

4. Elegy - a sad poem or song : a poem or song that expresses sorrow for someone who is dead.

O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitma

My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor'd safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

5. Epitaph - a brief poem or other writing in praise of a deceased person.

The End Day by Gary Fields

At the day of tribulations'
Reckless deeds and end
Of time
Your consternation
Beguiles' me
And is relative to me
Fore
The Lord is He
Yet,
The maker of mammon
Hath made his bound
Of inequity
Amidst
The trove and treasure
Of the unholy
Which the unholy of thee
Shall never resist 6. Haiku - is an unrhymed, syllabic form adapted from the Japanese: three lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables. Because it is so brief, a haiku is necessarily imagistic, concrete and pithy, juxtaposing two images in a very few words to create a single crystalline idea.

Basho Matsuo

An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight— a worm digs silently into the chestnut.

Lightning flash— what I thought were faces are plumes of pampas grass.

7. Limerick - a kind of humorous verse of five lines, in which the first, second, and fifth lines rhyme with each other, and the third and fourth lines, which are shorter, form a rhymed couplet.

There was an Old Man of Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, called Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.

8. Ode - a lyric poem typically of elaborate or irregular metrical form and expressive of exalted or enthusiastic emotion.

Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

9. Sonnet - have a two-part thematic structure, containing a problem and solution, or a question and answer, or a proposition and reinterpretation within their 14 lines and a volta or “turn” between the two parts.

La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri

And now (for I must rid my name of ruth)
Behooves me speak the truth
Touching thy cruelty and wickedness:
Not that they be not known; but ne'ertheless
I would give hate more stress
With them that feed on love in every sooth.

Out of this world thou hast driven courtesy,
And virtue, dearly prized in womanhood;
And out of youth’s gay mood
The lovely lightness is quite gone through thee.

10. Tanka - a Japanese poem consisting of 31 syllables in 5 lines, with 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 in the others.

A SAD HOLIDAY

Doesn't Christmastime mean presents, carols and cheers?
But for one it won't be a jolly Holiday pondering her breast cancer.