Poetry: Understanding Verses, Devices, and Philosophies
Poetry: An Introduction
Poetry is a manifestation of beauty or aesthetic feeling through words, in verse or prose.
Understanding Verse
Verse: Each of the lines of a poem.
Verse: A set of verses.
Philosophical Approaches in Poetry
Epicurus: Enjoy the everyday things of life. Accept life as a gift without question.
Stoicism: The life of man is like a dog tied to a bullock cart; you can accept or resist life but cannot go against the action of fate. You have to accept fate. Try not to suffer, do not feel. If you feel, you suffer.
Poetic Devices
- Poetic devices:
Rhyme: Matching vowels (assonance) or vowels and consonants (consonance) from the end of each verse, from the last accented vowel. It is marked with letters at the end of the line and depends on whether it is a poem of high art (capital letter) or minor art (lowercase). It can be assonance or consonance, depending on the final accented vowel.
Meter: The number of syllables in a verse.
Sinalefa: Mandatory union at the end and beginning of two syllables.
Hiatus: Separation of a union or sinalefa.
Last word of the verse:
- Acute: +1
- Grave: =
- Esdrújula: -1
Enjambment: When the natural pause cannot be made at the end of each verse, and the reader must continue reading in the next verse.
Auction: A sentence that ends the poem, impacting the reader.
Types of Lines
- Types of lines
Free: No meter or rhyme.
With rhyme and meter.
Blank: With meter and no rhyme.
Verses of minor art: Less than or equal to 8 syllables per line (indicated by lowercase letters).
Verses of high art: More than 8 syllables per line; its rhythm is indicated by uppercase letters.
Sonnet: 11 syllables each verse, 2 quartets and 2 trios.
Mia Lesbia
Let us live, my Lesbia, and even love,
And do not give a penny for all
Rumors of the old severe.
The sun can die and come back: when
With us the brief light is extinguished,
The night will be a perpetual sleep.
Give me a thousand kisses, then one hundred:
Then another thousand, and a second hundred,
Continue and then another thousand, then a hundred.
Then, when we reach many thousands,
Confuse yourself, do not know,
For not knowing how many are,
Even the evil envious.
Analysis
Blank verse. Meter (11 syllables), without rhyme (no particular order of assonance).
When life is over, we will not be able to stay together. “The night will be a perpetual sleep” refers to the shortness of life. You run out of time; take advantage of it.
He calls to his beloved, taking her behavior, encouraged. Light is like the brief life; night is death. He always puts the others, who censor (because they did not live like that). He convinces her to live and love. Carpe Diem. Rhythm of kisses: the way it conveys the lovers kissing. Once completed, the account is merged with envy.
Serene
Analysis
First is a picture of a gray and cloudy sky which is clearing. This can be analyzed by comparing the fog of worry and the stars as the wonderful events and beauty in the world, which dissipates the pain and allows one to return to enjoy the beauty of the world (after such a fog, one can discover the stars).
Then, speaking of a relief (“I breathe in the fresh leaves the color of the sky”) and that having been the anguish and despair that she could see the sky above gray, now blue (this can be seen as the coolness as well as that purity is a sensation of the clear blue sky and now, this is the color that is displayed).
Finally, speaking of a fleeting image, to be individuals, non-permanent and transient beings, and also we are prisoners of the journey of life (infinite), but for the world, we are passengers (“I see myself passing image. Prisoner in an immortal trip”).