TYPES OF POETRY

Narrative : poems that express feelings of the poet by a story.

Example : 

Lost Sailors All

Lines in the sand
from cutlasses drawn by seasoned hands
now lifeless sunsalt fingers at dawn. Gold,
bitten by yeast-weakened jaws once pearls
the sails unfurled in sunsets red
as blood too in the hold of wind.

And with the wind
that platter hope of peace they thought would come
now strains its sinews in approaching days.
Fine fools and fellows till the drink ran out
shaking dice in hour glasses, stretching
arms in tight-packed glances, lopping
tall poppy abandon, painting the snapping canvas
crimson, over a creaking deck.

When night comes, with the fall of men
some sit battered by the bow,
stern eyes fixed to the gallows, the tallow
path of a wave-rocked lantern
hanging a rattling voice of chains,
clanking a hymn to the sea.

And then one day, with seaspray breath
one thought among them anchors on the breeze;
an unpicked seachest on a burning ship:
'Whose grasp is it that spins the wheel?
Who drives the wind?'

Ballads : the music for a poem, usually about love.
Example : 
Ballad of the Black Slave

This is the ballad of the black slave, Who has been beaten and disgraced, Who has been called the n-word and negro, Who has received no pay. This is the ballad of the black slave, Who prays for freedom every night, Who is going to rebel, For what he thinks is right. Now this is the ballad of the freed slave, Who has seen much blood shed, Who has fought for equal rights, And who has won his freedom. Epic : extended narrative poems that were written by old poets or a poem that celebrates heroes in the past. Example :  Epic Poem This poem is epic so I named it so it's more epic than wind and snow which are in there own respects quite epic snow could be described as ghetto and wind can take on epic forms like a spinning tiger with legs made of iron bars that would be pretty epic infact I think that happened in outer mongolia to a young girl how got hit by the iron bars sadly she died but the type of death was one we all wish for over exposure to pure epicness like viewing a snail with a lightsaber who flies over mountains made of cheese that's bleedin' epic imagine it if you can can you? Lyric : poem that could be sung into music. Lyric does not tell a story but it expresses the thoughts and feelings of the poet. Example : Dying  I heard a fly buzz when I died; The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm. Sonnets : a poem that has 14 lines that expresses the poet in thoughts, ideas, and sentiments. Example : FROM fairest creatures we desire increase, That thereby beauty's rose might never die, But as the riper should by time decease, His tender heir might bear his memory: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light'st flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel. Thou that art now the world's fresh ornament And only herald to the gaudy spring, Within thine own bud buriest thy content And, tender churl, makest waste in niggarding. Pity the world, or else this glutton be, To eat the world's due, by the grave and thee. Odes : poem to praise or thanks someone or something. Example : Ode to Cheese

Ode To Cheese,
Which Makes Us Smile,
When Camera's go Clack.
Ode To Cheese,
Which make us taste,
The greatest of flavors, the wackiest of whack.
Ode To Cheese,
Blue, Gorgonzola,
American and Cheddar.
Ode To Cheese,
Beja and Feta,
In all types of weather.
Ode To Cheese,
For those on a diet,
or trying to get fatter.
Ode To Cheese,
with crackers and wine,
with grapes can flatter.
Ode To Cheese,
when you're sad and happy,
Cheese just fits.
Ode To Cheese,
Mountains and Mountains,
or bits and bits.

Ode to the Cheese,
To appreciate,
eat,
and take pictures. 

Free Verse : poem that its verses do not follow in fixed pattern.
Example : 
Connotation


Friends
Means sharing, bittersweet
A brand name of love. It is a tie for all time,
Longer than the shadows we forget
Yet shorter and better than life, or for some longer,
Stronger. It balances you, with a pole in
One hand and a rope in the other, you choose what to use it for.
It is forever.

Friends
Remembers everything anyone ever felt,
Holds it in a cubbyhole somewhere for next time
When it is spoken or thought, from kindergarten
Elation to maturing despair. No friend is ever
Alone in action or reaction, left
Without a silent commiserating presence of
Invisible brick, a personal wailing wall
For those who need its strength
And stability.

Friends
Is a loaded word and pointed. It limbos out from
Under walls, vaults barricades, threads mazes
To erect cellophane boundaries of its own.
It lets you see what could lie beyond
But that you gave up
When you spoke its name.


Significance : It's important to get to know all of the types of poems because we get to see how different they are. We don't learn everything at the same time but little bit by little. Therefore, learning these types of poem could pretty much help us in the future if the category is about poetry. Although poems are not always the same but they all express feelings of the poets.