ELEMENTS AND FEATURES OF LYRIC POETRY

Expressing one's emotions.

Highlights the importance of emotional sensitivity.

Mostly about self-expression and is subjective.

Based on human experience and intense emotions.

Exaggerates what really happened for it to be more idealistic.

He lived from 1770 - 1850.

He is an english poet.

He is one of the central figures in romanticism.

Most of his works were inspired by the Lake District.

Also known as Poet of Nature and A Worshipper of Nature.

Was described as works with a heightened sense of emotions ad feelings in the Romantic Period.

A verbal, written art form that uses a heightened sense of language to convey, experience, feeling, or modes of conciousness.

Written in metrical lines.

Follows a very structured form of writing.

No concrete definition.

Means many different things to different people.

You can make a story in narrative form.

Resembles everyday speech.

A straight-forward, ordinary language rather than following a meter or rhythmic pattern like poetry.

What are the 5 Elements of Poetry?

• Alliteration, Stanza, Verse, Rhyme, Mood
• Metaphor, Rhythm, Narrative, Symbolism, Tone
• Structure, Form, Theme, Speaker, Sound Patterns

• Character, Plot, Setting, Conflict, Resolution

How lines in the poem are put together.

Used to identify different kinds of poems.

A kind of verse that does not rely on consistent patterns of rhyme and meter.

A kind of verse that is used in poetry written in unrhymed but metered lines.

Always in iambic pentameter.

A group of lines set off from others.