Poems

Poems

Ballads

BALLAD

Definition: tells a story that often about love

Example:
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.

Significance:  It's like a song that use simple words that usually a sad story of love

Free Verse

FREE VERSE

Definition: it's a term of styles of poetry that is not rhyme.

Example: Spoken--a word implicit.
To believe everything
You say--how can
I give you what I am not given?
But I do--
I would, and I will.
And I let you
Keep pieces of me
Locked, keyed to you
Secretly--only I
Can no longer
Be sure of finding them--
You will tell me,
I or you
Right or wrong.

Significance: Free verse makes it easier to write poems and it is fun to write since there are no rules.

Narrative

NARRATIVE

Definition: poetry that tells a story.

Example:

There was three kings into the east,
Three kings both great and high,
And they hae sworn a solemn oath
John Barleycorn should die.

Sinificance: narrative poem is more interesting that narrative essay. It helps children to understand the stories better and also better than reading a page that full of words.

Imagery

IMAGERY

Definition: to pull the readers' attention by make them imagine the pictures or sense it.

Example: the picture.

Significance: Imagery makes poems more interesting and it helps readers to understand the poems easier by the 5 senses.

Line

LINE

Definition: a line of words in a poem

Example:

You may not understand,
Why I do what I do.
But you never criticized,
You just helped my through.

Significance: Lines break poems into different stanza (like 4-5 lines is equal to one stanza)

Stanza

STANZA
Definition: paragraphs (usually four or more) which create a poem.

Example:
Whenever you're sad,
or feeling blue,                  ===>>>> STANZA
Just call on me.
I'll be here for you.

Whenever you're happy,
or feeling sad,
Just call on me.
You are going to be glad that you had.


Significance: Stanza makes the poem looks simple and easier to read. It also makes the poem more interesting

Rhyme

RHYME
Definition: two or more words having the same last syllable sound


Example:
Broken dams and fading memories
Nights in blue with lights and sound
Something moving in the distance
Kill it when it comes around.

Significance: rhyme in poems for children makes it fun to read aloud to young students, and can sometimes makes adult poems interesting.

Symbol

SYMBOL
Definition: an object or something that represents somethng else


Significance: symbol is like pictures that help you to see and understand the poems.

Example: 

Tone

TONE
Definition: the tone is the sound of the poem when read

Example:

Significance: Tone can also helps you to understand the poems, because the way we read can show the feeling and the meaning of the poems

Metaphor

METAPHOR
Definition:  directly comparing two things with each other; no connection words

Example: Our friend George is just a big baby.

Significance: It's more challenging to read than simile because it gets readers thinking what it actually means

Speaker

SPEAKER 
Definition:  a person who speaks in front of people
Example:   "i have a dream that one day..." (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Significance: We need to read aloud to understand the poems along with the expressions/feelings it contains

Personification

PERSONIFICATION
Definition: Objects being described with human personalities
Example: The stars danced playfully in the moonlit sky.
Significance: People use personification to make poems more interesting or to attract readers attention.

Simile

SIMILE
Definition: compare two things with each other using connecting words (like or as).
Example:
Friends are like chocolate cake
You can never have too many.
Chocolate cake is like heaven
Always amazing you with each taste or feeling.
Chocolate cake is like life with so many different pieces.
Chocolate cake is like happiness, you can never get enough of it.”
Significance: It is important to use simile because it helps we as teenagers or children to understand the poem easier.

Poetry

Definition: form of literary art in which feelings can be expressed or to tell a story.

Example: 
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.

Significance:  Reading poetry makes you to think of the words and what is the meaning of that poetry. You can look at form of the poem (like how the poem looks like) to understand the meaning of it. Writing poetry can make you be more creative while expressed your feelings and to tell your own  thoughts.