Elementsofpoetry.ppt

Elements of Poetry What is poetry? Poetry is the artistic expression of the human thoughts and feelings in rhythmical, and emotional language. Compared with prose, it lays more stress on rhythm, imagery, emotion, and imagination. As its language is rhythmical, its sound is highly musical. We may say, “No rhythm, no poetry”, no matter the rhythm of poetry is traditional as in metric style or “natural” as in free verse. What is poetry? So the poet must write carefully and reflectively in order to find words that not only fulfills the demands of meter and rhyme, but also expresses the meaning in a manner that complements the imagery and tone of the rest of the poem. This careful use of language is the most significant difference between ordinary prose and poetry. What is poetry? The ordinary prose writer neatly builds an argument using words the way a mason builds a house using bricks; the poet is an artisan who creates a fieldstone hearth-each stone or each word is turned over, examined, and often laid aside until it can be placed where its shape, weight, and color will contribute to the strength and beauty of the whole. Prose, according to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is “words in their best order”, and poetry is “the best words in their best order”. What is poetry? The reader’s chief delight in reading poetry comes from his response to its musical effect, which derives from many metrical patterns represented in conventional iambic feet or from repetitions and parallel phrasing shown in free verse and from other elements of poetry. Elements of Poetry Prosody Verse Forms Poetic Genres and Kinds Poetic Diction and Poetic License Rhetorical Devices Prosody Prosody is the study of sound and rhythm in poetry. metre（格律）: In listening to the human voice we can always hear that some words and syllables are stressed and that others unstressed. When the stressed recurs at quite regular intervals — that is, when the rhythm has a pattern — the result is meter.