Poetry As Language 2

Poetry as language.By Rebeka Tello Navarrete.

• Short stories, essays, autobiographies, are examples of prose, the language that you hear in your daily life.

• Poetry, unlike prose, consists of language with a strong musical quality in which the words are highly charged with meaning.

• Usually poetry is written in lines, and these lines are grouped into stanzas.

• Poetry is one of the oldest forms of literature.

• Before literature was written down, people told stories.

• They use rhythm and rhyme to help them remember the stories better.

• Many narrative poems still use rhythm and rhyme to tell stories.

• In addition to using rhythm and rhyme, poets use language in other special ways to appeal to a reader’s senses and emotion.

• Because many poems are short, poets choose each word and phrase with care to create vivid images, or pictures, in the reader’s mind.

• Poems are another way of language, that make us understand the differences in culture and is an other way to acquire a foreign language.