Example:
Friday, May 13, 2011
Types of Poetry: Lyric
Definition: Expresses the feelings/thoughts of the poet
Example:
Love Lyric
Guitar strings strummed
The drum sticks beating
And the vocalist singing
A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love
Going falsetto
And three notes lower
His girlfriend in the front row
Lifts her hands up high in the air
As he sings a love lyric
While the band plays the notes
A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love
Example:
Love Lyric
Guitar strings strummed
The drum sticks beating
And the vocalist singing
A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love
Going falsetto
And three notes lower
His girlfriend in the front row
Lifts her hands up high in the air
As he sings a love lyric
While the band plays the notes
A love lyric to his beloved one
A love lyric for all star-crossed lovers
A love lyric to true love
Types of poetry: Epic
Definition: A poem that tells a story about heroes/hero.
Example:
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
Forth he fared at the fated moment,
loving clansmen, as late he charged them,
while wielded words the winsome Scyld,
the leader beloved who long had ruled….
Example:
LO, praise of the prowess of people-kings
of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,
we have heard, and what honor the athelings won!
Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes,
from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore,
awing the earls. Since erst he lay
friendless, a foundling, fate repaid him:
for he waxed under welkin, in wealth he throve,
till before him the folk, both far and near,
who house by the whale-path, heard his mandate,
gave him gifts: a good king he!
To him an heir was afterward born,
a son in his halls, whom heaven sent
to favor the folk, feeling their woe
that erst they had lacked an earl for leader
so long a while; the Lord endowed him,
the Wielder of Wonder, with world's renown.
Famed was this Beowulf: far flew the boast of him,
son of Scyld, in the Scandian lands.
So becomes it a youth to quit him well
with his father's friends, by fee and gift,
that to aid him, aged, in after days,
come warriors willing, should war draw nigh,
liegemen loyal: by lauded deeds
shall an earl have honor in every clan.
Forth he fared at the fated moment,
sturdy Scyld to the shelter of God.
Then they bore him over to ocean's billow,loving clansmen, as late he charged them,
while wielded words the winsome Scyld,
the leader beloved who long had ruled….
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