POETRY

WHAT IS POETRY?

Poetry (ilmu tentang puisi) is a type of literature based on the interplay of words and rhythm. In poetry, words are strung together to form sounds, images, and ideas that might be too complex or abstract to describe directly.

 

Poems (puisi) can help you say, help you show how you're feeling, but they can also introduce you to feelings, ways of being in the world, people, very much unlike you, maybe even people from long, long ago

One of the characteristics of poetry is that it is a unique language that combines and uses words to convey meaning and communicate ideas, feelings, sounds, gestures, signs, and symbols.

WHAT IS STRUCTURE IN A POEM?

• 1.    . Line length. (ukuran baris)
  Line length shows the reader how it should be read. Short lines are usually read faster, with more emotion.
• 2.    Stanzas (bait). 
  Stanzas, the groups of lines, are like paragraph in prose. ...

 

Some common techniques in writing a poem:

• 1.    Rhymes (same sound at the end of lines)

       Eg. I watched as the butterfly  (a)
             Fluttered up to the sky (a)

                                                           
I don't wanna live (a)
I'd rather die (b)
Nothing to forgive (a)
I wanna fly (b)

• 2.          Metaphor (to compare one thing which is equal to another)

            Eg. The snow is a white blanket.

 

• 3.    Simile (comparison using the word ‘like’ or ‘as’)

           Eg. The surface of water is as smooth as glass.

 

• 4.    Personification (Objects are given human characteristics)

           Eg. The wind is whispering to my ear.

Watch this poem carefully!