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Concetti Chiave

  • Poetry is the oldest form of literature, originating as an oral art with rhythm and music, making it easy to memorize and pass down through generations.
  • The basic structural units of poetry include the line, stanza, and canto, with stanzas varying in length from couplets to octaves.
  • Main kinds of poetry include narrative and epic, dramatic, satiric, and lyric, each serving different storytelling and expressive purposes.
  • Fixed forms of poetry, such as the elegy, ballad, sonnet, and ode, each have unique characteristics and thematic focuses.
  • Important poetic elements include sound devices like assonance and alliteration, and language devices such as simile, metaphor, and personification.

Indice

  1. Origini della poesia
  2. Struttura e forme della poesia
  3. Tipi principali di poesia
  4. Elementi importanti nella poesia

Origini della poesia

Poetry is the first literary genre, because the first Anglo-Saxon literary works were passed on from generation to generation orally, and poetry, with its rhythm and musical qualities, was easier to learn by heart.

Poetry was born as an oral art generally accompanied by dancing and music and, as said before, is the oldest form of literature.

Typically people used it to express the most remarkable events in their lives or to convey the feelings associated with them.

Struttura e forme della poesia

The structural units of Poetry are:

_the Line (the basic unit);

_the Stanza (a section of a poem which consists of several lines);

_the Canto or Book.

Stanzas can be different:

_two lines: Couplet;

_three lines: Tercet;

_four lines: Quatrain;

_five lines: Sestet;

_eight lines: Octave.

A complete Poem may consist of only two lines, while Narrative Poems may extend over thousands of lines.

Tipi principali di poesia

The Main Kinds of Poetry are Narrative and Epic, Dramatic, Satiric, and Lyric.

Narrative and Epic, Dramatic and Satiric Poetry tell a story in verse and may express a

moral commentary.

Lyric Poems are generally very short and are used in almost every age.

Some fixed forms are:

_the Elegy, which combines natural setting with poetic lamentation or speculation o

death;

_the Ballad, used to express basic human emotions;

as love and hate or fear and wonder at physical and supernatural Worlds;

_the Sonnet;

_the Ode, a quite long and complex Poem that consists in the celebration of an abstract concept.

Elementi importanti nella poesia

-Important Elements in Poetry-

The Important Elements in Poetry are three: the Sound, the Visual Layout and the Language.

Assonance: the repetition of the same vowel sound;

Alliteration: the repetition of the same initial consonant sound in consecutive words;

Repetition (or Refrain): the repetition of phrases or lines, maybe in order to create a musical effect.

Onomatopoeia: a word whose sound illustrates its meaning;

Enjambment (or Run-on-line): the breaking of a phrase in two lines;

Rhythm and Stress: Rhythm is the organization of the Stress in a line;

Metre and Feet: Metre is the basic rhythmic structure of a verse; Metre is measured in Feet, a sequence of syllable types;

Rhyme: the last word of two or more lines has the same ending sound.

Simile: comparison between two things, through the use of “like”, “as”, “than” or “resembles”. The function of a Simile are: to convey a more vivid idea of the scene or object, to make the meaning easier to understand, to introduce an element of surprise, to create an emotional response in the reader.

Metaphor: describes something as if it were something else, without connective words such as “like” or “as”.

The “Tenor” is the subject of the Metaphor, the “Vehicle” is what the subject is compared to and the “Common Ground” is the analogy between them.

Personification: attributes the characteristics of a living being to abstract things or to inanimate objects. It can be recognised by the use of the capital letter, of possessive adjectives, and of verbs referring to human actions.

Symbol: is any thing, person, place, place or action that has a literal meaning and also stands for something else.

Allegory: combines different symbols into a totality.

Oxymoron: combination of two contradictory things.

Hyperbole: exaggeration of something (quantity, quality, etc..).

Litotes: contrary of Hyperbole, it’s a rhetorical understatement in which is used the negative of the opposite meaning.

Domande da interrogazione

  1. ¿Cuál es el origen de la poesía según el texto?
  2. La poesía es el primer género literario, nacido como un arte oral acompañado de música y danza, y es la forma más antigua de literatura.

  3. ¿Cuáles son las unidades estructurales básicas de la poesía?
  4. Las unidades estructurales básicas de la poesía son la línea, la estrofa y el canto o libro.

  5. ¿Qué tipos principales de poesía se mencionan en el texto?
  6. Los tipos principales de poesía mencionados son la narrativa y épica, dramática, satírica y lírica.

  7. ¿Cuáles son algunas formas fijas de poesía destacadas en el texto?
  8. Algunas formas fijas de poesía son la elegía, la balada, el soneto y la oda.

  9. ¿Qué dispositivos de sonido se utilizan en la poesía según el texto?
  10. Los dispositivos de sonido incluyen la asonancia, aliteración, repetición, onomatopeya, encabalgamiento, ritmo y estrés, metro y pies, y rima.

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