Poetry by Ramdan Faudzi

What is Poetry?

   According to the dictionary, poetry is a literary work that made by poets in verse to indicates the expression of feeling and idea through meaning, rhythm and sound.

"Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words".

Robert Frost.

   In Greek understandings, poetry is an art form in which human language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or instead of, its notional and semantic content. The use of rhythm and rhetorical device such as metaphor and simile with were felt by the users.

These are some type of a poem. 

1. Sonnet

   Sonnet is a 14 lines poem that originated from Italy and the brought to England. Literally a “little song,” the sonnet traditionally reflects upon a single sentiment, with a clarification or “turn” of thought in its concluding lines.

2. Villanelle

   Villanelle is a five of three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lines form the final couplet in the quatrain. It is basically a French Verse.

3. Ghazal

   Ghazal is a  is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. Using Arabic Verse, Ghazal is one of the principal poetic forms which the Indo-Perso-Arabic civilization offered to the eastern Islamic world.

4. Haiku

   Haiku is a is a three-line poem with seventeen syllables, written in a 5/7/5 syllable count. Often focusing on images from nature, haiku emphasizes simplicity, intensity, and directness of expression.

These are some types the poetry genres.

1. Narrative poetry

Narrative poetry is a poem that that tells a story. It is generally with more appeal to human interest. Narrative poetry may be the oldest type of poetry.

2. Satirical poetry

Satirical poem is all about ridicule and denunciation. A satirical poem is one that makes fun of some example of vice or foolishness or injustice or moral failing. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon and as a tool to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society.

3. Elegy

Elegy is a is a mournful, melancholy or plaintive poem, especially a lament for the dead or a funeral song. An elegy may also reflect something that seems to the author to be strange or mysterious. The elegy, as a reflection on a death, on a sorrow more generally, or on something mysterious, may be classified as a form of lyric poetry.

Reflection.

This is one of the types of poetry that i choose that is a Haiku.

Here are three examples of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet of haiku in the 1600s:

Basho Matsuo

An old silent pond...

A frog jumps into the pond,

splash! Silence again.

Autumn moonlight—

a worm digs silently

into the chestnut.

Lightning flash—

what I thought were faces

are plumes of pampas grass.

by

Basho Matsuo