Study Guide for Exam One Definitions: • Ballade • A narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain. • From the book: A verse form consisting of: usually three stanzas followed by a four-line envoi. The last line of the first stanza establishes a refrain, which is repeated, or subtly varied, as the last line of each stanza. • Blank Verse • A verse form using unrhymed iambic pentameter lines. Blank verse has no stanzas, but is broken up into uneven units determined by sense rather than form. (WORDSWORTH!) • Lyric Poem • A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines • From the book: Initially meaning a song, refers to a short poetic form without the restriction of meter. Personal emotion is given by a voice in the first person over a narrative sequence. • Classic • Primarily describes the works of either Greek or Roman antiquity. • Elegy • A genre in classical literature with denotes loss, especially the death of a loved person. • Hexameter • A line of verse with six syllable stresses. • Ode • A lyric poem in anELEVATED, HIGH STYLEoften addressed to a natural force, a person, or an abstract quality. Pindaric Ode • Made up of stanzas of unequal length. Horatian Ode • Stanzas of equal length. • Pastoral • A genre in which the poem is set among shepherds , making often refined allusions to other apparently unconnected subjects from the potentially idyllic world of highly literary to illiterate shepherds. • Quatrain • A stanza of four lines. ABBA, ABAB, ABCB • Rhyme Royal • A stanza of seveniambic pentameterlines, rhyming ABABBCC •Spenserian Stanza
• Developed by Spenser for theFaerie Queene,nine iambic lines, the first eight arepentameters, followed by ahexameter. The rhyme scheme is ABABBCBCC Wordsworth: Preface, p. 292 • "I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."- Wordsworth's definition of poetry. • Three versions of the same work, published three different times • Ordinary language used so his work would last throughout time • Wrote a lot about peasants, children, outcasts, criminals, and mad women. "Michael" is just a mere shepherd. • Seeing through the senses, keeping humans morally alive and sensitive. •Ordinary things made extraordinary
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