3. - Deals with emotions as
they are aroused by some
scene, experience,
attachment; often rich in
sentiment and passion;
imaginative.

4. - The language of
the
imagination, almost
entirely figurative, and
also a musical literary
language.

5. Forms:
Couplet
- Two lines of verse
with similar end-
rhymes.

6. - A two-line stanza with both
grammatical structure and
idea complete within itself.
Sample:
More relative than this. The play’s the
thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the
King.

7. Tercet
- A triplet in which
each line ends with
the same rhyme.

8. Sample:
When as in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how
sweetly flows
The liquefaction of her clothes.

9. Quatrain
- A stanza of four
lines.

10. - A complete poem
consisting of four
lines only: any one
of many four-line
stanza forms.

11. - The possible rhyme
schemes vary from an
unrhymed quatrain to
almost any arrangement
of one-rhyme, two-rhyme,
or three-rhyme lines
(abab, aabb,abba, aaba,

12. Diction
- Choice of words is of
great importance in
poetry.

13. - Words or
combinations of words
are painstakingly
chosen by the poet for
their exactness as well
as suggestiveness.

14. - The connotative
value of a word is
particularly
important to the
poet.

15. Tone
- The attitude of the
poet or the persona or
the speaker in the
poem.

16. - The tone of
voice varies
according to the
emotional state
of the speaker.

17. - In order to identify
tone in poetry, one
should be sensitive
to the inner state of
the speaker.

18. The usual themes in
poetry are
love, death, brother
hood, inhumanity, lo
neliness, and joy.

19. Poetry can do the
following:

20. 1. Move an individual to
tears or laughter.
2. Stir the insights of the
readers.
3. Stimulate the
imagination of the
reader.

21. 4.Lift the burden of
a heavy heart.
5.Ease and relax
tension in a
troubled world.

23. - A nondramatic poem that
tells a story or presents a
narrative, whether simple
or complex, long or short.
Epics, ballads, Metrical
romances are among the
many kinds of narrative
poems.

24. a. Metrical Tale:
- A series of events or facts told
or presented based on the
metric system as a standard of
measurement.
- Tendencies of romanticism in its
freedom of technique and its
preference for remote settings as
well as its essential qualities.

25. EDMUND AND HELEN
COME, SIT THEE BY ME, LOVE, AND THOU SHALT HEAR
A TALE MAY WIN A SMILE AND CLAIM A TEAR-
A PLAN AND SIMPLE STORY, TOLD IN RHYME,
AS SANG THE MINSTRELS OF THE OLDEN TIME.
NO IDLE MUSE I'LL NEEDLESSLY INVOKE-
NO PATRON'S AID TO STEER ME FROM THE ROCK
OF COLD NEGLECT ROUND WHICH OBLIVION LIES;
BUT LOVED ONE, I WILL LOOK INTO THINE EYES,
FROM WHICH YOUNG POESY FIRST TOUCHED MY SOUL,

26. AND BADE THE BURNING WORDS IN NUMBERS
ROLL;--
THEY WERE THE LIGHT IN WHICH I LEARNED TO
SING;
AND STILL TO THEE WILL KINDLING FANCY CLING-
GLOW AT THY SMILE, AS WHEN, IN YOUNGER
YEARS,
I'VE SEEN THEE SMILING THROUGH THY MAIDEN
TEARS,
LIKE A FAIR FLOWERET BENT WITH MORNING DEW;
WHILE SUNBEAMS KISSED ITS LEAVES OF
LOVELIEST HUE.

27. b. Epic:
- A story about heroic deeds
of an individual written in
verse.
- - Epics without certain
authorship are called Folk
Epics.

28. Characteristics of an
Epic

29. • HERO - a figure of imposing
stature, of national or
international importance, and
of great history or legendary
significance.
• SETTING - vast, covering
great nations, the world, or the
universe.

30. • SUPERNATURAL FORCES –
gods, angels, and demons –
interest themselves in the action
and intervene from time to time.
• STYLE – sustained elevation and
grand simplicity is used.
• ACTION – consists of deeds of
great valor or requiring
superhuman courage

31. Sample Text:
The Epic of Labaw
Donggon

32. 1
The Birth
Odoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Let us narrate with care
Take note much in detail
All about Labaw Donggon
Who was born in the womb
Of Anggoy Alunsina.

33. BuyungLabawDonggon
Not long after he was
delivered,
Hardly noticed by anyone
Became a mature person,
A sturdy young man.

34. 2
Wooing of
AbyangGinbitinan
Odoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
LabawDongon said
To his respected parents
AbyangAlunsina.

35. “Open, please open
The great wooden chest
Whose heavy cover
Is elaborately carved.

36. Then select from there
Very carefully
My treasured possessions
and
My fine clothes.”

37. - One of the earliest forms of
literature.
- The narration of a story in poetry
form.
- Form of verse to be sung or recited
and characterized by its
presentation of a dramatic or
exciting episode in simple narrative
form.

38. - Essentially a narrative
poem originally intended to
be sung.
- The traditional ballad
consists of four lines with an
abcb rhyme scheme and
may employ a refrain.

39. Characteristics of Ballad:
• The supernatural is likely to
play an important part in
events.
• Physical courage and love
are frequent themes.
• Slight attention is paid to
characterization/description.

40. • Transitions are abrupt.
• Action is largely
developed through
dialogue.
• Tragic situations are
presented with the
utmost simplicity.

41. The Mermaid
by Author Unknown
'Twas Friday morn when we set
sail,
And we had not got far from land,
When the Captain, he spied a
lovely mermaid,
With a comb and a glass in her
hand.

42. Chorus
Oh the ocean waves may roll,
And the stormy winds may blow,
While we poor sailors go skipping
aloft
And the land lubbers lay down
below, below, below
And the land lubbers lay down
below.

43. Then up spoke the Captain
of our gallant ship,
And a jolly old Captain was
he;
"I have a wife in Salem
town,
But tonight a widow she will
be."

45. - A brief subjective poem
strongly marked by
imagination, melody, and
emotion, and creating a
single, unified impression.
- (GREEK) Expression of
the emotion of a single
singer accompanied by a
lyre.

46. - “Choric” – verses that were
the expression of a group and
were sung by a chorus.
- Individual and personal
emotion of the poet still holds.
- Most broadly inclusive of all
the various types of verse.

47. a. Ode:
- A single, unified strain of
exalted lyrical verse, directed
to a single purpose, and
dealing with one theme.
- Connotes certain qualities
of both manner and form.

48. - An elaborate
lyric, expressed in language
dignified, sincere, and
imaginative and intellectual in
tone.
- No definite pattern.
- Each is distinguished by its
subject matter.

49. - The elegy dwells on death
and the sorrow that comes
with the contemplation of loss.
- Addresses an object in lofty
terms.
- More complicated than
most of the lyric types.

50. Sample Text:
Ode to My Angel
Michael Flores
Fly me to your heavenly garden of
peace
With your pure and perfect pallid
wings
Carry me to my fairest hopes and
dreams
And put my feet up on your red rose’s
bed.

51. Bless my mornings with your
comforting touch
And feed me with your
sweetest smiles
I’ll drink your tears to heal my
pains
And live with you forevermore.

52. Guide me to my future
successes
With your eyes so angelic and
divine
Sing your most romantic
melodies
Erase my worries and
perplexities.

53. O my dearly beloved angel
of heavens
Your smell I breathe
awakens me
Embrace me with your
warmest arms
Forever I will live with thee.

54. Song:
- A lyric poem adapted to
musical expression.
- Usually short, simple,
sensuous, emotional – the
most spontaneous lyric
form.

55. Sample Text:
I HAVE BECOME LIGHTER
I have become lighter than a
basket
of beaten cotton in the presence
of so many relatives all heavily
adorned
with double necklaces of gold and
precious beads;

56. heavy earrings of gold hung
like leaves upon their ears;
but I sit in their midst with a
necklace of lasa seeds
interspersed with the
humble seed of the tugitugi

57. and cheap green beads of
glass, adorned with a cross
made of squash shell because I
know not
how to tie properly a string
around my neck,
which is the proper and
decorous thing for a young
woman

58. Sources:
Holman, Hugh, et al.:A Handbook to
Literature.C.Macmillan Publishing
Company.1986
Tomeldan, Yolanda V., Prism: An
Introduction to Literature. National
Bookstore.1986
Senatin, Ruby B.,Centenera, Fe
G.:Introduction to Literature English 104
(Textbook-Workbook).National
Bookstore.2003

59. Prepared by:
Robert Ryan L. Iligan
III-BSE
La Salle College Antipolo