FORMS OF

POETRY
FORMS OF POETRY
 LYRIC POETRY
 NARRATIVE
POETRY
DRAMATIC POETRY
LYRIC POETRY
• Is singing short and
simple with an
accompaniment of a
lyre that expresses
emotions and feelings
of the poet.
TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• FOLKSONGS
 Are short poems that are
tainted with love, hope, joy,
grief, sadness, or sorrow as
common themes.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• SONNETS
 Can be Italian or
Shakespearean with 14
lines illustrating emotions,
feelings and ideas.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• ELEGY
 Demonstrates grief
and melancholy to the
dead.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• ODE
 Express noble yet
dignified emotions with no
definite syllable or lines per
stanza.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• PSALMS (DALIT)
 Illustrates praise songs
of God as well as the
Virgin Mary.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• SONG (AWIT)
 Contains twelve syllables
accompanied by guitar or
banduria in a slow tempo.
 TYPES OF LYRICAL POETRY

• CORRIDOS
 Show eight syllables
which is spoken to
synchronize a martial tap.
 NARRATIVE
POETRY
• Tells the significant
events in life or that of
make- believe. Epic,
metrical tale, and ballad
comprise the narative
verse.
TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETRY

• EPIC
 Demonstrates heroism of
gods and the fantastic. It is
often circuitous and is an
unending tale.
TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETRY

• METRICAL TALE
 Can be a ballad or a
metrical romance
revealing love and
supernatural stories.
TYPES OF NARRATIVE POETRY

• BALLADS
 Display the shortest and the
simplest poems accompanied by a
dance that will narrate any of the
themes such as war, sea humor,
moral, mystical or historical.
 DRAMATIC
POETRY
• Is written for the
theater which can be
often lyrical and
provides dramatic
dialogue.
TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY

• COMEDY
 Provides amusing
and happy endings.
TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY
• MELODRAMA
 Covers musical plays with an
opera on it that will link to
misfortune. There is sadness
in the tale but the main
character has a happy fate
towards the end.
TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY
• TRAGEDY
 Invokes pleasure among
the audience where the
hero struggles meeting his
or her misfortune.
TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY
• FARCE
 Is an exaggerated and
extravagant comedy
where characters are like
caricatures and quite
absurd.
TYPES OF DRAMATIC POETRY
• SOCIAL POEMS
 Can be comic or tragic
whose goal is to bring
social changes in the
community.
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