Competency 2: Identify representative texts and authors from each region (e.g., engage in oral history research with a focus on key personalities from the students’ region/province/ town)
Poetry comes from the Greek word “poiesis,” which translates to “a making or creating.”
It is “a literary skill where the evocative and aesthetic qualities of a language are brought out in place of the language’s plain meaning.”
It is “writing that communicates intensely and intimately through and beyond language, using rhythm, sound, style, and meaning.”
It consists of oral or literary works in which language is used in a manner that its user and audience can feel to differ from ordinary prose.
Narrative Poetry - it is a form of poem that tells a series of events using poetic devices.
Lyric Poetry - any fairly short poem consisting of the utterance by a single speaker who expresses a state of mind or a process of perception, thought, and feeling.
Dramatic Poetry - any poetry that uses the discourse of the characters involved to tell a story or portray a situation.
Elements of Poetry
These are a set of devices used to make a poem. It is an indispensable part of the organization of a good poem. Exploring these formal elements helps us comprehend a poem’s meaning more deeply and the nuances that enhance that meaning. This kind of formal close reading of the text is essential to any analysis of literature.
It is the created narrative voice of the poem. The speaker is NOT necessarily the poet.
It is the person or people to whom the speaker is speaking.
It is the subject or the idea or the thing that the poem concerns or represents.
It relates to the general idea or ideas continuously developed throughout the poem. It is a thought or an idea the poet presents to the reader that may be deep, difficult to understand, or even moralistic. Generally, a theme has to be extracted as the reader explores the passages of a work.
A form is a pattern for making the poem. Some poems come with rules about the number of lines, line length, rhyme scheme, meter, refrain. Some poems, such as the ode and the elegy, can only be written about specific themes. Other forms, like spoken word, have a distinctive approach to both theme and delivery. Free verse is a non-form and might be the most popular type of poetry written today. In poetry, you will encounter two forms: structured and free verse.
Structured poetry has predictable patterns of rhyme, rhythm, line-length, and stanza construction.
Free verse, the poet experiments with the form of the poem. The rhythm, number of syllables per line, and stanza construction does not follow a pattern.
It varies with different types of poetry. The structural elements include the lines and stanza.
It is the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience. Tone can be playful, humorous, regretful, or anything — and it can change as the poem goes along. Tone can also mean the general emotional weather of the poem.
It refers to the “pictures” that we perceive with our mind’s eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin, and how we experience the “duplicate world” created by poetic language. The imagery evokes the meaning and truth of human experiences but in more visual and tangible forms. It is a device by which the poet makes his meaning strong, clear, and sure. The poet uses sound words and words of color and touch in addition to figures of speech. As well, concrete details that appeal to the reader’s senses are used to build up images.
It refers to the writer's or the speaker's distinctive vocabulary choices and expression style in a literary work. The poet chooses each word carefully so that both its meaning and sound contribute to the poem's tone and feeling. The poet must consider a word's denotation (its definition according to the dictionary) and its connotation (the emotions, thoughts, and ideas associated with and evoked by the word).
It is a type of language that varies from the norms of literal language. Words mean what it says for the sake of comparison, emphasis, clarity, or freshness. Also known as the "ornaments of language," figurative language does not mean what it says. Instead, it forces the reader to make an imaginative leap to comprehend an author's point. It usually involves a comparison between two things that may not, at first, seem to relate to one another and can facilitate understanding because it relates something unfamiliar to something familiar.
Unlike the person who uses language to convey only information, the poet chooses words for sound and meaning and uses the sound as a means of reinforcing meaning. Sound-effect devices or verbal music are important resources that enable the poet to do something more than communicating mere information. The poet may indeed sometimes pursue verbal music for its own sake; more often, at least in first-rate poetry, it is adjunct to the whole meaning or communication of the poem.
Example of Representative Text (Davao Region)
Bago Aplaya
by Macario Tiu
Hinay ang tapya sa balod
Ug nagsugod na ang taob.
Namasbas ang pari sa bangkang de motor,
Ug lakip tang nawiskan sa bendita.
Uban sa mga gagmayng mananagat nga nanag-alirong.
Nalipay ako sa ilang kalipay
Nga nakaangkog himan sa panagat:
mao kana ang atong gisaulog.
Apan hinay ang tapya sa balod
Ug nagsugod na ang taob.
Ug sama sa karaang magbabalak,
Akong nabati ang walay kataposang kasubo
Nga dala sa balod.
Apan dili tungod sa pangagho sa katawhan
kondili sa akong kaugalingong kahimtang.
Ugma, mobiya ka na sa hangtod
Samtang hinay sa balod
Ug magsugod na ang taob.