Types of Poetry / An Interactive Presentation

This resource is an interactive presentation that guides the learners to discover the different types of poems through reading samples of these poems with a brief introduction and definition of each one of these types.

The learners can easily navigate through this presentation and discover on their own the poems and their different types and characteristics.

Poetry is a language. It has been written, spoken, and read for thousands upon thousands of years. Poetry can evoke emotion, memories, and bring light to new and old ideas. All poetry has been written by real people with real feelings and thoughts.

Everybody can read poetry, and everyone can write it. There are messages within poetry about life, love, struggle, happiness, sadness, fear, and fearlessness. Poetry can represent something important, or it can mean absolutely nothing at the same time.

Poetry is what you make of it. However, until you have a small background of information on the different types of poetry and the different key poetic elements, reading through and understanding poetry can prove to be quite difficult.