Scarica Descrizione Poetry- inglese e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! POETRY The poetry is characterized by a special use of language in which verse, sound and images play an essential role. It is an ancient form of expression used to transmit cultural information or to tell stories and myths. The first poems were recited or sung and therefore easier to memorize. They were initially composed during the show and were subject to high changes. subsequently poetry became written and printed and layout became very important. During the cultural evolution of society, poetry underwent a series of changes, becoming more personal and intimate. It was used to talk about love, death, to create pathos, to convey a vision of life or simply to tell stories. The fundamental elements have not changed: poetry, however, creates imagination, an emotional response, contains the meaning in a limited length, is based on meter on rhyme and makes use of language accentuated by images. The rhyme is the identify of sound in the final syllables of words and it is found at the end of the line and creates a pattern, called a rhyme scheme, expressed with the letters of the alphabet. About the layout, the poem is structured in lines, each one begins with a capital letter and they are grouped into stanzas. The lines can be of different lengths or the same and, rhyming or not, the meter can be constant or vary. The trophic forms can be determined by the number of lines: -the couplet: a pair of rhyming lines; -the tercet: stanza of three lines. -the quatrain: the grouping of four lines is one of the most common, and is also the form of the ballad. Its most common rhyme scheme is ABBA, AABB, ABAB; -the sextet: six-line stanza; -the seven-line stanza: when it is made up of lines of ten syllables rhyming ABABBCC it is called 'real rhyme'; -the octave: stanza of eight lines; -Free verse: when the verse does not follow the conventions of the meter but is often very rhythmic. Poetry will be defined as a composition of words set to music, in fact what distinguishes it from prose is its dependence on sound. Rhythm is the beat created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables whose combination gives a sense of movement designed to attract the ear as well as reinforce the meaning. Enjambment consists of grammatical continuation from one line to another. It affects the rhythm because it creates an idea of tension and speed in proceeding. It can also serve to highlight or connect words, emphasizing ideas or creating associations of concepts.
