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Citizen: An American Lyric is a 2014 book-length poem and a series of lyric essays by American poet Claudia Rankine. Citizen stretches the conventions of traditional lyric poetry by interweaving several forms of text and media into a collective portrait of racial relations in the United States.
Ezra Pound distinguished three aspects of poetry: melopoeia, phanopoeia, and logopoeia. Melopoeia [ edit ] Melopoeia or melopeia is when words are "charged" beyond their normal meaning with some musical property which further directs its meaning, [1] inducing emotional correlations by sound and rhythm of the speech.
Poems are created out of poetic devices via a composite of: structural, grammatical, rhythmic, metrical, verbal, and visual elements. They are essential tools that a poet uses to create rhythm, enhance a poem's meaning, or intensify a mood or feeling.
Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings. Any particular instance of poetry is called a poem and is written by a poet.
Examples of use Poetry. Poets can call attention to certain words in a line of poetry by using alliteration. They can also use alliteration to create a pleasant, rhythmic effect. In the following poetic lines, notice how alliteration is used to emphasize words and to create rhythm:
By the time of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and others, the term had come to mean "serious meditative poem": Elegy is a form of poetry natural to the reflective mind. It may treat of any subject, but it must treat of no subject for itself; but always and exclusively with reference to the poet.
Greek lyric is the body of lyric poetry written in dialects of Ancient Greek . It is primarily associated with the early 7th to the early 5th centuries BC, sometimes called the "Lyric Age of Greece", [1] but continued to be written into the Hellenistic and Imperial periods.
Narrative poems include all epic poetry, and the various types of "lay", most ballads, and some idylls, as well as many poems not falling into a distinct type. Some narrative poetry takes the form of a novel in verse. An example of this is The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning.
Iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter ( / aɪˌæmbɪk pɛnˈtæmɪtər / eye-AM-bik pen-TAM-it-ər) is a type of metric line used in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line. Rhythm is measured in small groups of syllables called "feet".
Outline of poetry. The following outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to poetry: Poetry – a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities, in addition to, or instead of, its apparent meaning .