Question

I want to prepare an assignment on five different form of poems. give the meaning of specific type and the name of poet related to the same zone. write a different poems of the given zone poems

Answer 1

Types of Poetry Examples

Examples Highlight the Poetic Types

Each type of poetry is characterized by its own style. By understanding the various styles, you are better able to learn the variances between each of the different types.

HAIKU POEMS

The Old Pond by Matshuo Basho is an example of a haiku:

“The old pond-- a frog jumps in, sound of water.”

Truth in Advertising by Yahia Lababidi is another example of a haiku:

“Morning epiphany, applicable to love and life, in haiku-like purity.”

FREE VERSE POEMS

Because free verse poems are the least well defined, there are numerous examples of free verse poems.

This excerpt from Little Father by Li-Young Lee is another example of free verse poetry:

I buried my father in my heart.

Now he grows in me, my strange son,

My little root who won’t drink milk,

Little pale foot sunk in unheard-of night,

Little clock spring newly wet

In the fire,little grape, parent to the future

Wine, a son the fruit of his own son,

Little father I ransom with my life.

CINQUAIN

A cinquain is a five-line poem inspired by Japanese haiku's. There are many different variations of cinquains.

TreeStrong,

TallSwaying,

swinging,

sighing

Memories of summer Oak

EPIC POEMS

An epic is a long and narrative poem that normally tells a story about a hero or an adventure. Epics can be oral stories or can be poems in written form.  The Illiad and the Odyssey are examples of famous epic poems, as is The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

By the shore of Gitchie Gumee,

By the shining Big-Sea-Water,

At the doorway of his wigwam,

In the pleasant Summer morning,

Hiawatha stood and waited.

BALLAD POEMS

ballad poetry is often based on a legend or a folk tale. Ballad poems may take the form of songs and may contain a moral or a lesson.

The Mermaid by Unknown author

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.

SONNETS

The poems of William Shakespeare provide excellent types of poetry examples for sonnets.

Sonnet 116 by 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.

Shakespeare was not the only source of sonnets.

Sonnet of Demeter - An Italian Sonnet

Oh the pirate stars, they have no mercy!

Masquerading as hope they tell their lies;

Only the young can hear their lullabies.

But I am barren and I am thirsty

Since she has gone. No hope is there for me.

I will roam and curse this earth and these skies--

Death from life which Zeus sovereign denies.

My heart's ill shall the whole world's illness be

Till she is returned-- my daughter, my blood--

From the dark hand of Hades to my care.

With my tears these mortals shall know a flood

To show Poseidon's realm desert and bare.

No myrtle shall flower, no cypress bud

Till the gods release her...and my despair.