Poetry
QueSPER Research Plan Poetry Work Plan Note-taking Worksheets
Some Types of Poetry
Rhyme and Verse
- Simple rhymes and rhythms
- Often comic, surprising, or sentimental
- Examples: Poems by Mother Goose, Robert Louis Stevenson, Shel Silverstein
- Often short
Narrative Poetry (includes ballads, epic poetry)
- Tells a story
- Uses poetic language
- Examples: Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Service, Vachel Lindsay
Descriptive Poetry
- Describes a place, event, person, idea
- Uses poetic language
- Examples: Poems by Walter Dean Meyers, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes
Lyric Poetry
- Focuses on emotion and feeling
- Examples: Poems by William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes
Concrete Poetry
- Uses the placement of words to image the subject of the poem
- Uses poetic language
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