Elegy

Elegy is meditation of life and death.

3 kinds of poetry:

- Lyric

- Narrative

- Dramatic

Lyric comes from lyre, a harp-like instument played by ancient Greek poets during recital of shorter poems.

2 kinds of Narrative

• Epic - long poem describing war and heroism
• Ballad - tell short stories about a particular person/event.

Dramatic - the poet lets one or more of the story's character to act out the story.

Elements of poetry:

• Rhythm - means the flow of sound produced by language. 

    *meter - pattern of rhyme in a poem.

• Imagery - refers to the sensations that language creates in the mind.
• form
• sounds

Free verse - is a poem with no rhyme scheme and meter.