'Poetry'

'Poetry'

Ballads are traditionally a song that tells a story. The ballad was originally an oral verse form that were sung or recited and transmitted from performer to performer without being written down. Ballads are characteristically compressed, dramatic, and objective in their narrative style. There are many variations to The ballad form, most consisting of quatrains (made up of lines of three or four metrical feet) in a simple rhyme scheme.

Ballad stanza

The most common pattern of ballad makers consists of four lines rhymed abcb, in which the first and third lines have four metrical feet and the second and fourth lines have three feet(4,3,4,3).

Broadside ballads - Poems printed on a single sheet of paper, often set to traditional tunes. Most broadside ballads (which originated in the sixteenth century) were an early form of verse journalism, cheap to print, and widely circulated, often they were humorous or pathetic accounts of sensational news event.

Satiric poetry - Poetry that blends criticism with humour to convey a message. Satire characteristically uses irony to make its point and usually, its tone is one of detached amusement, withering contempt and implied superiority. * /Rhythm - The pattern of stresses and pauses in a poem - a fixed and recurring rhythm in a poem is called a meter.

Tone - The attitude towards a subject conveyed in a literary work. No single stylist device creates tone; it is the net result of the various elements an author brings to creating the works, feeling and manner. Tone may be playful, sarcastic, ironic, sad, solemn, or any other possible attitude. A writer’s tone plays an important role in establishing the reader’s relationship to the characters or ideas presented in a literary work.

Poetic Magic - The act of composition occurs in a sort of trance, distinguishable from dream only because the critical faculties are not dormant, but on the contrary, are more acute than normal.

'Poets compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not the sequence of the metronome.' E Pounds

'a deep seated belief in miracle poem is something that penetrates for an instant in o the unconscious.' R Bly 'reduced to its simplest and most essential form the poem is a song. Song is neither discourse nor explanation.' O Paz

'Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings' Wordsworth

'musical thought' T Carlye

'a way of remembering tat it would impoverish us to forget' G Hopkins

' the clear expression of mixed feeling' W Auden

'hundreds of things coming together at the right moment' E Bishop

Yeats on Writing -

'The poet of essences and pure ideas must seek in the half-lights that glimmer form symbol to symbol as if to the ends of the earth, all that the epic and dramatic poet finds of mystery and shadow in the accidental circumstances of life.Anyone who has any experiences of any mystic state of the soul knows how there float up in the mind profound symbols. Our little memories are but a part of some great Memory that renews the world and men’s thoughts age after age and that our thoughts are not as we suppose, the deep, but a little foam upon the deep.’