Poetry in a Speech Class

When I was younger, I tried to make my own dialogues, and expressing myself I wrote a child's poem about creation. I remember I pleased and surprised my English teacher in high school when I delivered my own poem during a speech exam. My classmates got poems they read from books and other reference texts, while I read my own composition. I was the only student in the class with a thick face to impose on everyone, "Please listen, I've got a poem for all!"

Around the world, poets will not stop writing poems and sing their hymns because poetry is made out of life. According to Eliot and Wordsworth it is something recollected in tranquility. I knew poetry should magnify things. Truly, it should make things bigger and vivid and tangible in words.

Here are lines from Ars Poetica by Archibald Machleish

A poem should be equal to:
Not true

For all the history of grief
An empty doorway and a maple leaf

For love
The leaning grasses and two lights above the sea -

A poem should not mean
But be.

II. Check out the following poetry words:

1. metrical literature - A metrical literature is having a regular arrangement of accents.

A= metrical literature
B= imaginative literature
A+B=Poetry

2. prosaic means ordinary, like prose (plain language). It is the language of reason.

"The definition of a good prose is proper words in their proper places." (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

3. imagination - Imagination is a creation of the mind. It is thinking to create or forming pictures in the mind; the imagination of a writer

4. Scrooge- Scrooge is any dingy or stingy person. The old miser in Charles Dickens story, "A Christmas Carol."

5. succor - Succor means assistance or any person or thing that relieves (especially British, succor).

6.epic - An epic is a long narrative poem which is communal in character (...race), rather than those of individual. The style is marked by dignity and sublimity. The same meter is used throughout, and the theme is the same action of unusual interest.

In an epic unity is achieved by concentration on the main character.

7. sonnet - A sonnet can be an Italian or Petrarchan Sonnet with an octave ( 8 lines), a sestet (6 lines).

English or Shakespearean sonnet is divided into 3 quatrains, with a rhyming couplet.

In both types the normal measure is iambic pentameter (14 lines).

8. octave - An octave is a group of eight; first eight lines of a sonnet; a group of 8 lines of poetry; in music the series of tones GABCDEFG

9. elegy - An elegy is a poem of lamentation. As a rule an elegy is less spontaneous than the true lyric. Like the ode, is often elaborate in style and death is sometimes the sole theme.

10. lyric - This can apply to all classes of poetry. Its chief characteristic is its emotional quality or intensity.

The lyric says that the poetic way of the heart follows powerful feelings of brief duration. The lyric as an artistic expression of emotion is short. According to Paul Landis "It has been called the quintessence of momentary mood into words".