POETRY TERMS 4 Lyric Poem Any short poem
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POETRY TERMS 4
Lyric Poem ■ Any short poem that presents a single speaker who expresses thoughts and feelings ■ Used to/could have a musical accompaniment ■ Sonnets and odes are lyric poems ■ “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. ”
Couplets ■ A two-line stanza ■ Two lines that have the same end rhyme ■ Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. ■ My cat, she likes to chase a mouse, Especially one that’s in the house.
Conceits ■ Make unusual and unlikely comparisons between two things, it allows readers to look at things in a new way. ■ Conceits, on the other hand, surprise and shock the readers by making farfetched comparisons. (Unlike the predictability of metaphors and similes) ■ John Donne is the man when it comes to conceits. “The Flea”, “The Good-morrow”, “The Bait”, and “A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning” ■ “If they be two, they are two so As stiff Twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fix’d foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’ other do… Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, ”
Extended Metaphor ■ An implied comparison carried throughout a stanza or an entire poem. (It’s extended longer than a line) ■ “Hope is the thing with feathers”-- Emily Dickinson has compared “hope” to the “little bird” ■ “All the world’s a stage” -Shakespeare has remarkably compared “earth” to a “stage” in the extract mentioned above. ■ “It is the East, and Juliet is the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon…”-Shakespeare has compared “Juliet” the “sun”.
