Sound
of Poetry
The
sound of poetry generally refers to
the linguistic quality which determines
a certain rhythms in poetry. It is the
distinctive qualities or features which
distinguishes poetry from other forms
of literature. It has its following
parts.
a) Syllables
b) Foot
c) Meter
a) Syllables: - As syllables is the
combination of vowel and consonant sound.
A word can have many syllables but are
syllable is always equals to one vowel
and one consonant sound. Generally it
is considered that one syllable equal
to one vowel. For example life.
b) Foot: - A foot is the combination
of stressed and unstressed syllables.
For example my life.
c) Meter: - Meter in the poetry is often
determined by syllables and foot. Generally
one foot is regarded to be one meter.
There are two types of meter.
I. Numerical
One foot- Monometer
Two feet- Diameter
Three feet- Trimeter
Four feet- Tetrameter
Five feet- Pentameter
Six feet- Hexameter
Seven feet- Heptameter
Eight feet- Octameter
Nine feet- Semi decameter
Ten feet- Decameter
II. Traditional
The Iambic~/
The Trochee /~
The Dectyle /~ ~
The Anapest ~ ~ /
Allegory:
Allegory is a parallel story. If a single
word or expression has an abstract and
general meaning, it is called a symbol;
but if the whole ‘story’ of a drama,
story or poem has a symbolic meaning
throughout, it is called an allegory.
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Alliteration:
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant
sounds. The repeated consonants normally
occur at the beginning of words or in
stressed syllables.
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Allusion:
An allusion in a literary text is a
reference to a personal place or event
or to another literary work or passage.
It does not have clear identification,
that is, it does not tell directly what
it stands for.
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Animation:
Animation is giving life to non-living
objects. If a poet treats a lifeless
concrete thing as having life, awareness,
will-power, thought, emotion, etc, that
is called animation.
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Ballad:originally
a kind of folk song; also sung with
music; now recorded in writing, and
also regarded as literature/ poetry.
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Blank
verse:
Blank verse refers to the poetic lines
that use iambic pentameter without rhyming.
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Classical
Poetry:The
classical or neo-classical poets of
the eighteenth century had had made
poetry more social than personal, more
intellectual than emotional and imaginative,
more rule-based than spontaneous.
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Conceit:
The conceit is a striking metaphor.
It is so original and unconventional
that it not only strikes the reader
into attention, but sometimes shocks
them, being even objectionable or absurd
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Elegy:
The elegy was originally the form of
poetry on the subject of sadness, especially
‘complaints about love’.
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Epic:
One the oldest of the poetic forms,
the epic is a long narrative poem, majestic
both in theme and style, dealing with
legendary or historical events of national
or universal significance, involving
action of broad sweep and grandeur.
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Epic
Simile:
The epic simile is a figurative
device first popularized by Homer in
his epics. It is a comparison that may
be as long as a dozen lines.
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Heroic
couplet:
Heroic couplet is a pair of lines with
iambic pentameter; the lines must also
rhyme together.
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Iambic
pentameter:
Iambic pentameter means ‘five iambic
feet in a line’. ‘Iambic’ means a unit
of rhythm with two syllables where the
first is not stressed (U) and the second
is stressed (S).
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Image:
An image is considered to be a picture
created in the mind by words. Generally
images are divided as visual images
and abstract images.
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