PART 4

Conclusion:

What is poetry?

poetry is a literary genre that communicates experience in the most condensed form. Poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. It consists largely of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that is felt by its user and audience to differ from ordinary prose.

Kinds of poetry?

Ballad; lyric; narrative poem; epic; sonnet; ode; elegy; pastoral; blank verse and free verse.

Homework:

1. Find 5 to 8 poems online and read them carefully. Talk with your groupmates about their themes and discuss whether the statements below are true.

a. Rhymed writings are poetry.

b. Poetry is always beautiful.

2. Read the book after class and find the kinds or types of each genre.