1. Poetry
NUNGKI HERIYATI, S.S., M.A.

2. What is poetry
Poetry is as universal as language and almost as ancient as language.
People have always be more successful at appreciating poetry.
Poetry might be defined as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than does ordinary language

3. Example
If we interested in eagles and want to acquire information about eagles, we may turn to an encyclopedia or a book of natural history. There we find that the family falconidae, to which eagles belong, is characterized by imperforate nostrils, legs of medium length, a hooked bill, the hind toe inserted on the level with the three front ones, and the claws roundly curved and sharp; to the toes that their length is about three feet, the extend of wing seven feet…..

4. The Eagle He claps the crag with crooked hands
Close to the sun in lonely lands
Ringed with the azure world, he stands
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls
Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( )

5. Thus,
Poetry allow us to imaginatively to participate in it. It is means of allowing us, through the imagination, to live more fully, more deeply, more richly, and with greater awareness

6. Elements in poetry Imagery
Definition: representation through language of sense experience. Poetry appeals directly to our sense, of course, through its music and rhythms
The word image perhaps most often suggests a mental picture, something seen in the mind’s eye. Visual image is the kind of imagery that occurs most frequently in poetry.
An image may also represent a sound (auditory imagery), smell (olfactory imagery), a taste (gustatory imagery), touch such as hardness, softness, wetness, or heat or cold (tactile imagery), an intra sensation, such as hunger, thirst, fatigue (organic imagery), or movement or tension in muscle or joints (kinesthetic imagery)
The sharpness and vividness of any image will ordinarily depend on how specific it is and on the poet’s use of effective details. Ex. Hummingbird convey a more definite image than does bird. Ruby-throated humming bird is sharper and more specific.

7. assignment done, I'll have to burn the midnight oil.
2. Figurative Language
Figure of speech is any way of saying something other than the ordinary way. More narrowly, it is defined as a way of saying one thing and meaning another.
Metaphor and Simile are both used as a means of comparing things that are essentially unlike. Example for simile: As smooth as silk, as fast as the wind. Quick like a lightning bolt. Metaphor is an implicit comparison without like or as: You're such an airhead. It's bursting with flavor.
Synecdoche is the use of the part for the whole. Ex. Let me give you a hand.
Hyperbole :Exaggerating statement. Ex. In order to get my
assignment done, I'll have to burn the midnight oil.
Personification : Giving something a human quality. Ex. The sun smiled down on me...The leaves danced in the wind.
Onomatopoeia: A word imitating a real sound (e.g. tick-tock or boom)
allusion: An indirect reference to another work of literature or art

8. 3. Symbol and allegory
A symbol defined as something that means more than what it is.
Ex. Red means brave
American bald eagle is often thought of as the symbol of the United States,
Allegory is considered as an extended metaphor. It is an indirect or passing reference to some event, person, place, or artistic work, the nature and relevance of which is not explained by the writer but relies on the reader's familiarity with what is thus mentioned. The technique of allusion is an economical means of calling upon the history or the literary tradition that author and reader are assumed to share

9. 4. Meter
In the Western poetic tradition, meters are customarily grouped according to a characteristic metrical foot and the number of feet per line.
The most important feet :
Iambus
Anapest
Trochee
Dactyl

10. Meter
Thus, "iambic pentameter" is a meter comprising five feet per line, in which the predominant kind of foot is the "iamb." This metric system originated in ancient Greek poetry, and was used by poets such as Pindar and Sappho, and by the great tragedians of Athens.

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