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The poet's enduring concern for humanity only shapes the structural composition of his poetry

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A sample Essay for LIE Poetry Module 2 Unit

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The writer's concern for humanity doesn't only shape the structural composition of his poems but also shapes the content of the poem
Itself. His words used. his literary devices which appeal to the emotion of the reader

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Form, Content, and Meaning in Poetry

Have you ever sat down to read a poem and, after perusing it for a few minutes said, something like this: 'I just don't get it!' Indeed, poetry can be one of the most challenging types of literature to read and understand. Why is this? Unlike prose, poetry places a great deal of emphasis on form as well as content, and its content tends to be more obscure and symbolic.

In this lesson, we're going to explore an equation that will help you read poetry more efficiently and understand it more thoroughly. Here's the equation:

Content + Form = Meaning

We'll use George Herbert's poem Easter Wings to show how this little formula plays out in a real poem.

Poetic Content

Let's begin by defining poetic content. The content of a poem refers to its language. Several elements combine to create a poem's content. These include the following:

The poem's topic, subject matter, and theme - essentially, these elements express what the poem is about. A poem might have the topic of love, for instance, and express that topic by a subject matter that describes the relationship of a couple using the theme that love is both challenging and rewarding.

The poem's tone - tone is the poet's attitude toward his subject. It could be positive or negative, joyful, sarcastic, nostalgic, or any other emotion.

The poem's word choices - words are extremely important to poets, and they choose their words very carefully to express exactly what they want to say.

The poem's word order - poets don't always use standard word order. They deliberately mix things up to get their readers' attention and make their point.

The poem's figurative language - figurative language uses words and expressions in such a way that they go beyond their normal, literal meanings. It might include comparisons, like metaphors and similes, word play, manipulation of the sounds of words, deliberate exaggeration, symbolism, and much more.

The poem's imagery - imagery is a language that makes a special appeal to the senses. It is very vivid and is intended to create a mental picture in the reader's mind.

Together, these elements produce a poem's content. Let's take a look at the content of George Herbert's Easter Wings. Notice how Herbert chooses his words very carefully to express decay and thinning in the first half of each stanza and growth and rising in the second half of each stanza. Also pay attention to Herbert's imagery. He is especially interested in exploring the images of birds in flight, which he uses to express his theme of the rising of the human soul from darkness and decay into victory.

Poetic Form

Now let's turn our attention to form. Poetic form refers to a poem's physical structure; basically, what the poem looks like and how it sounds. The following elements combine to create form:

The poem's type - poems can be lyrics that focus on expressing emotions, narratives that tell a story, and/or descriptive poems that say something about the characteristics of the poet's world.

The poem's stanza structure - stanzas are simply groups of lines. Poets can choose from couplets (two lines together), tercets (three lines together), quatrains (four lines together), and so on.

The poem's line lengths - poetic lines can range from very short (one or two words) to very long.

The poem's rhyme scheme - poets may choose to rhyme various lines of their poems, or they may decide to leave out rhymes altogether, a style called blank verse.

The poem's rhythm - rhythm is simply the patterns of sound in a poem. If a poem has a regular sound pattern, we say that it has a meter. Rhythm and meter are formed when a poet chooses to use specific numbers of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line of a poem.

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Have you ever sat down to read a poem and, after perusing it for a few minutes said, something like this: 'I just don't get it!' Indeed, poetry can be one of the most challenging types of literature to read and understand. Why is this?

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The personal becomes the political. Owen's personal life influences his enduring concern for humanity.

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The structure of a poem is the way the ideas are ordered. Some poems follow a strict structure such as sonnets and haiku. Some poems do not follow a set structure and are often referred to as free verse.If a poem has a group of lines (like a poetry paragraph) we call this a stanza.There are many different kinds of structures for poems and poets select the best structure for their ideas. We call this matching form to content (ideas to structure).

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The structure of a poem is the way the ideas are ordered. Some poems follow a strict structure such as sonnets and haiku. Some poems do not follow a set structure and are often referred to as free verse.If a poem has a group of lines (like a poetry paragraph) we call this a stanza.There are many different kinds of structures for poems and poets select the best structure for their ideas. We call this matching form to content (ideas to structure).

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Do you think that Owen's concern for humanity shapes only the structure of his poetry?

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The structure of a poem can refer to several kinds of "configuration." First, the structure often refers to the physical composition of a poem. The structure of a haiku (a three-line poem that does not rhyme) for example, is very different than an epic (or very long) poem (which is often written in rhyming four-line stanzas). The structure may refer also to the meter or rhythm of the poem. Each line may have a specific number of syllables, and in many cases, the stress or emphasis will rest on every other syllable.For example, William Bulter Yeats' poem, "The Ballad of Father Gilligan" has lines with a rhythm that moves back and forth because the first line has four stressed syllables (out of a total of eight), and the next line has three (out of a total of six). This format is repeated to provide a sense of a lilting or swaying walk.

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The structure of a poem can refer to several kinds of "configuration." First, the structure often refers to the physical composition of a poem. The structure of a haiku (a three-line poem that does not rhyme) for example, is very different than an epic (or very long) poem (which is often written in rhyming four-line stanzas). The structure may refer also to the meter or rhythm of the poem. Each line may have a specific number of syllables, and in many cases, the stress or emphasis will rest on every other syllable.For example, William Bulter Yeats' poem, "The Ballad of Father Gilligan" has lines with a rhythm that moves back and forth because the first line has four stressed syllables (out of a total of eight), and the next line has three (out of a total of six). This format is repeated to provide a sense of a lilting or swaying walk.

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