1, WHAT IS POETRY
Poetry is a literary work that contains rhythm, lyrics, rhymes, and rhythm in each line.
2. WHAT ARE GENRES OF ENGLISH POETRY
A.Narrative poetry ( tell a story )
LAUT
Laut apa yang hendak kau tunjukan padaku Laut yang berangin sepoy menguray rambutku Laut berombak kecil berkejaran sepanjang waktu Laut berombak besar yang menghantam karang Laut dengan pengunjung yang ramai Atau hanya Laut dengan air tenang?
( Nisa Nadya Silmy )
B. Dramatic Poetry (has elements related closely to the drama)
C. Lyrical Poetry ( Express Feeling & Emotion)
Go, Lovely Rose” by Edmund Waller
“Go, lovely Rose-
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that’s young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.”
3. What are genres of Indonesian Poetry?
A. old poetry is poetry that is physically bound by the rules of creation (Mantra, Pantun, Syair, soleka)
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Kalau pulang jangan lupa berlabuh
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B. New poetry (is poetry that no longer has an attachment to writing rules like old poetry. It can be said that new poetry has a free writing style, both on lines, syllables, and rhymes.) namely ballads, hymns, ode, epigram, romance , alegi, satire, distikon, quatrains, sectets, sonnet octaves.
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