PART 3

Game Time:

(1) Let the students read the parts of other kinds of poetry, discuss their functions or characteristics with their groups and then answer the questions below as soon as possible:

Q13: What is a lyric? What is the function of it?

A13: Lyric is a genre that covers a variety of sub-genres. Usually, a lyric is short, within fifty or sixty lines. Lyrics treat the thoughts and feelings, usually powerful emotions of the poet or some invented speaker. They adopt various tones, but frequently personal and reflective ones.

Q14: If a poem mainly tells a relatively complete story, what is it called?

A14: A narrative poem.

Q15: If a poem is of great scale and grandiose style about the heroes or deals with noble characters and heroic deeds, what should we call it?

A15: Epic.

(2) Choose several students from each group to fill in the blanks shown on the powerpoint. The first one who have the correct answer will get one point for his or her group.

a. A _____ is a lyric invariably of fourteen lines, usually in iambic pentameter, restricted to a definite rhyme scheme. (sonnet)

There are three prominent types of sonnet, all named after their founders or perfecter.

b. A dignified and elaborately structured lyric poem of some length, praising and glorifying an individual, commemorating an event, or describing nature intellectually rather than emotionally is called _____. (an ode)

c. The word _____ comes from a Greek word meaning “lament”. They can be of any subjects, from love, lamentation to war and politics. They are distinguished from other types of poetry by their metrical form rather than by their subject matters.

A subtype of this genre is the _____ (pastoral elegy) that originated in Greek and Sicilian poetry in the third and second centuries BC. The pastoral elegy has the following characteristics:

1)The setting is pastoral. The poet and the person he mourns are depicted as shepherds.

2)The poem begins by appealing to the Muses and refers to various mythological figures in its progression.

3) Nature takes part in the mourning, more or less.

4) The poet asks the guardians of the dead where they were when death came.

5)The poem describes the procession of mourners.

6) The poem describes the decoration of the bier in a flowery passage.

7)The poem reflects on divine justice and evils of the day.

8)In the end the poem shows hope and joy, expressing the idea that death is the beginning of life.

d. The word _____ (Pastoral) has a Latin etymology, meaning “pertaining to shepherds” and can be applied to works of any literary genre that deal with the simple and unspoiled life of the shepherds or countryside.

In discussing poetry, they are those professing to portray the innocence of shepherd life, according to a specific literary convention.

e. _____ (Blank verse) refers to poems of unrhymed lines, usually written in iambic pentameter. Because the poems are unrhymed, the rhyme scheme is “blank,” hence the name.

f. “_____” (Free verse) is rhymed or unrhymed poetry free from conventional rules of meter. The aesthetic and musical effect of it is achieved through rhythms and cadence of natural speech.