Poetry has become an avenue for aspiring poets to put their emotions into words in a creative manner. Immersing yourself into the creative pool of poetry provides a specific framework concerning how these different kinds of poems that will see fit to your passion and strengths.
Ballad
Ballads don’t just belong to the wide variety of song genres, it can also fall under the poetry category. Similar to any literary content, ballad commonly unfolds a story in an innate metaphorical and enigmatic. It embodies a refrain that repeats in intervals as you read through the stanzas. Two great examples of remarkable work of ballads are Hilaire Belloc’s Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa and Tu Fu’s Ballad of the Army Carts.
Elegy
While some poetries may vary in a structural or of distinct patterns, Elegy is an emotionally driven poetry that particulars to an emotion of grief or plaintive lyric. It is often recited or sung in funerals as an expression of sorrow through a loved one’s death or lamentation over a tragic event. One famous elegy is John Milton’s Lycidas dedicated to the death of his friend.
Free Verse
While the majority are acquainted with poems following a rhythmic pattern, free verse rule out this criterion, providing more liberty for writers to employ a different taste of creativity in writing poems. The only point poets should factor in is its assonance or the words that start with the same sound. Check out a modernist theme of free verse in T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock— a declaration of his search for love in an uncertain world.
Haiku
This somehow ensembles free verse. It rules out the rhyme scheme pattern, only that a specific number of syllables must be followed at all times. Haiku is derived from Japanese literature that expresses emotions or allegories that denote nature’s beauty and vividness. Famous Haikus of all time include The Old Pond by Matsuo Bashō, A World of Dew by Kobayashi Issa, etc.
Imagery
Doesn’t imagery work in all types of a poem? Yes, it does. While the fact remains how imagery plays an important factor in crafting an ensemble of the poet’s emotion or rough draft, there’s also a poetry form that highlights on painting a picture on to the readers’ mind to spark off its senses. Imagery-based poems are considered written by Imagists like Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell.
This only yet covers a few of the broad spectrum of poetry. What do you think will make a match to your likes and wants in writing? Just like the aspiring poet Camilo Zuniga, his remarkable collections of poems in Feelings on Paper is yet to establish its legacy in the field of poetry, how about you? Make your poetry come to life!