![]() ![]() ![]() The comparative words- ‘as’ and ‘like’-are sacrificed while the quality is transferred straight to the object.Į.g. It is sometimes described as a compressed simile because of the writer’s desire to save words. METAPHOR A metaphor is an indirect comparison between two different things with a common attribute. Although any literary author could use them and some do, they are of the poetic origin. Most English poets wrote sonnets-Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, Byron, Wordsworth, Rossetti, etc.ġ Discuss ‘poetry’ as a genre of literature.īelow are some of the popular poetic devices often used, not only by poets but also by prose writers and playwrights. Most known sonnets have rhyme schemes, although different sonneteers employ different types of rhyme schemes. A sonnet has a well-defined subject, often focused on one idea, thought or feeling. ![]() However, it is not always that a sonnet is marked by any physical division. Sonnet: It is a fourteen-line poem divided into the octave (8 lines) and the sestet (6 lines). Examples of lyrical poetry in a modern sense include, William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’ and Kofi Awoonor’s ‘Songs of Sorrow’, etc. All he needs to do is to get stimulated by what he observes, say a flower or a bee at work, and as a consequence expresses his thought and emotions about that, and possibly draws conclusions. Nor does the lyrical poet need to narrate a story. But these days, it neither needs to be sung nor recited with a lyre. Lyrical Poetry: It was originally a poem meant to be sung to the accompaniment of a musical instrument called the lyre. Narrative Poetry: It is a poem which tells a story (e.g.) Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, Chaucer’s ‘Canterbury Tales’, Wordsworth’s ‘Solitary Reaper’, etc. It is important to note that all manner of poems, for convenience, are grouped under three broad kinds. Poems can be classified on the basis of content, style and structure. Poetry is also seen as a spontaneous over-flow of powerful emotions and feelings in tranquility by deploring rich diction. This is the freedom to change the system and rules of a language in order to achieve a particular effect. And this liberty or freedom with language-use by a poet is called Poetic License. From the above, it becomes necessary to note that a poet is literally permitted to use language the way it pleases him/her. This use is expressed in a manner of language application which attracts attention to it, especially when words are found or used in unusual places or settings. This is because it is the sum total of the use of certain devices such as rhyme, rhythm, metre, figure of speech, stanza, subject matter, the poet’s feeling, his/her attitude to the subject matter, etc. Poetry is a form of writing stimulated by emotion and expressing a deep feeling that may be very difficult to explain in literary form. ![]()
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