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) All good verses are like impromptus made at

leisure 2.)Composed poetry like a dancer working at the barre, continually exercising the power of imagining, like a muscle that demanded flexing and stretching. 3.)Explaining how you write poetry its like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife. 4.) He [the poet] approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poets pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification 5.) Like science, poetry must fix its thought in

 6.)Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem

must ride on its own melting. 7.) Like marijuana smoke are poets verses. 8.) Poems are like people there are not many authentic ones around. 9.) The poet is like the prince of the clouds who rides the tempest exiled on the ground, amidst boos and insults, his giants wings prevent his walking. 10.) Poetry is like light. 11.) Poetry is like painting; one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

 12.)Poetry is like spray blown by some

wind from a heaving sea, or like sparks blown from a smouldering fire: a cry which the violence of circumstances wrings from some poor fellow . 13.) Poets are conductors of the senses of men, as teachers and preachers are the insulators. The simile is taken from a prose poem entitled As You Say (not without sadness), Poets Dont See They Feel It contains another simile which sheds light on the poet as one who strips away insulation: He pulls at the seams [of insulation] like a boy whose trousers are cutting him in half. 14.) Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

 15.) Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping

a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. 16.) Rhymes you as fast as a sailor will swear. The simile is from a poem honoring John Skelton. 17.) They [poets] are honored and ignored like famous dead Presidents . 18.) To try to read a poem with the eyes of the first reader who read it is like trying to see a landscape without the atmosphere that clothes it . 19.) To write a lyric is like having a fit, you cant have one when you wish you could and you cant help having it when it comes itself. 20.) Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

 The Major Categories...

Descriptive Poetry As the name suggests, descriptive poems are centered around the object of interest and they serve a didactic purpose. Descriptive poems compel the reader to visualize the object, place or person of interest as pictured by the poet himself. An Example: Smoke ~ Henry David Thoreau Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark without song, and messenger of dawn Circling above the hamlets as they nest; Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts; By night star-veiling, and by day Darkening the light and blotting out the sun; Go thou my incense upward from this hearth, And ask the gods to pardon this clear flame.

 Reflective Poetry

Reflective poems contain some explicit or implicit generalization about life, by the poet. Simply put, it is a mere reflection of the state of mind of the poet put forth in a poetic manner. An Example: Human Seasons ~ John Keats FOUR Seasons fill the measure of the year; There are four seasons in the mind of man: He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear Takes in all beauty with an easy span: He has his Summer, when luxuriously Spring's honey'd cud of youthful thought he loves To ruminate, and by such dreaming high Is nearest unto heaven: quiet coves His soul has in its Autumn, when his wings He furleth close; contented so to look On mists in idleness - to let fair things Pass by unheeded as a threshold brook. He has his Winter too of pale misfeature, Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

 Narrative Poetry

The poet narrates a story through the use of poetic diction. It is considered to be one of the oldest form of poetry and it often focuses on the pros and cons of life. An Example: The Charge of the Light Brigade ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death, Rode the six hundred. 'Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns' he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. (an incerpt from the poem 'The Charge of the Light Brigade')

 The Types of Poetry

Lyric Poetry A lyric is a short poem which has the characteristics of a song. It pertains to a single mood or feeling and is more personal in nature. An example: A Red Red Rose ~ Robert Burns My love is like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June : My love is like the melody That's sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass, So deep in love am I : And I will love thee still, my dear, Till a' the seas gang dry. (an incerpt from the poem 'A Red Red Rose')

 Sonnet

A sonnet is a relatively short poem consisting of merely fourteen lines. It is known to follow a strict pattern of rhyme. It is divided into two parts - the octave and the concluding sestet.This separation marks the end or break in thought. It is further classified into Petrarchan, Shakespearean and Miltonic sonnets. An example: Sonnet 116 ~ Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come: Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

 Elegy

The tone of this type of poem is often set in melancholy and is known to be a funeral song. Most of the elegies are pastoral in nature that is, it is the lament of a poet mourning the loss of another fellow poet. An example: Lycidas ~ John Milton Yet once more, O ye Laurels, and once more Ye Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-sear, I com to pluck your Berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: (an incerpt from the poem 'Lycidas')

 Ode

This type of poem is a direct address to a particular person or a thing. It is relatively elaborate in its structure. It is divided into three parts namely, the strophe, antistrophe and the epode. Odes have a serious overtone, with the strophe and the antistrophe looking at the subject from conflicting perspectives, while the epode tries to resolve the underlying issues. An example: Ode on a Grecian Urn ~ John Keats Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? (an incerpt from the poem 'Ode on a Grecian Urn')

 Ballad

A ballad is a type of a narrative poem which deals with a heroic theme. A ballad has musical quality and it has a set theme and fixed metrical form. The modern ballads have taken on the form of single spirited poems with short stanzas that narrate a popular story graphically. An example: The Walrus and the Carpenter ~ Lewis Carroll The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night. The moon was shining sulkily, Because she thought the sun Had got no business to be there After the day was done-"It's very rude of him," she said, "To come and spoil the fun!" (an incerpt from the poem 'The Walrus and The Carpenter')

Epic
It is a heroic poem that deals with the ethos of the period. There are two types of epic, one that is concerned with growth while the other with art. Epics are generally grander in their portrayal of the style and their theme. It is an account of the life and works of a heroic or mythological person. An example: Paradise Lost ~ Milton Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime. (an incerpt of the 'Invocation' from 'Paradise Lost')

 Limericks

A limerick is a humorous or a nonsensical poem consisting of a stanza made up of five lines. It is a folk form and is essentially transgressive and bordering on obscene. An example: There was a Young Lady of Lucca ~ Edward Lear There was a Young Lady of Lucca, Whose lovers completely forsook her; She ran up a tree, And said, 'Fiddle-de-dee!' Which embarassed the people of Lucca.

REFERENCE! !!

 Reference is a relation between objects in which one object

designates, or acts as a means by which to connect to or link to, another object. The first object in this relation is said to refer to the second object. The second object the one to which the first object refers is called the referent of the first object. The term reference is used in many spheres of human knowledge, adopting shades of meaning particular to the contexts in which it is used. References can take on many forms, including: a thought, a sensory perception that is audible (onomatopoeia), visual (text), olfactory, or tactile, emotional state, relationship with other,[1]spacetime coordinate, symbolic or alpha-numeric, a physical object or an energy projection; but, other concrete and abstract contexts exist as methods of defining references within the scope of the various fields that require an origin, point of departure, or an original form. This includes methods that intentionally hide the reference from some observers, as in cryptography. The following sections give specific usages of reference in different subjects.

PRESENTATI ON IN ENGLISH!!!!

PRESENTED BY :

ANDREI ROMANO
ERICKSON

ESCARLAN JEROME PUNZAL ALGEM CABANERO