Speaker

Speaker: A person who is giving a lecture in a poem through his point of view.

Ex: I am evil
But i am not a devil

Significance: Speaker helps us  know the feeling of the writer to understand the point of view of the author.

Simile

Simile: A simile poem, or a simile is comparing 2 things with "like", or "as". 

An emerald is as green as grass,

A ruby red as blood;

A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;

A flint lies in the mud.

A diamond is a brilliant stone,

To catch the world's desire;

An opal holds a fiery spark;

But a flint holds a fire

Significance: Simile helps the reader compare between things with things and it makes the poem more interesting but don't mistake it from a metaphor.

Extended Metaphor

Extended Metaphor: A metaphor compares two things that are not alike and it takes a metaphor and compares it throughout the entire poem.

He is the pointing gun, we are the bullets of his desire.

All the world's a stage and men and women merely players.

Let me count my loves of thee, my rose garden, my heart, my fixed mark, my beginning and my end

Significance: Extend Metaphor makes the poem more creative and interesting than normal metaphor poems.

Metaphor

Metaphor: It is a way to describe one thing in terms of another.

A Candle


Lost in darkness of that day

I saw a distant candle

Being that I saw a way

I requested her handle.



I must have toiled half the way

To connect from such a length

Upon extending her my say

She bent over with sheer strength.



My wick absorbed her purity

I no longer realized that dark

When asked for my seniority

I just showed this glaring spark.

Significance: Metaphor can be challenging for the readers sometime but it makes the poem more creative and  it also makes the readers to ask themselves.   

Stanza

Stanza: A stanza is a group of lines within a poem. It is a form of a paragraph in a poem.


Ex: I met a man who'd kept a snail as pet
beneath a cold stone house which had no wife;
too dank it was for even cats to thrive.
Inside an old fish tank his snail friend slept.

The man's round back was proof he'd not forget
to spend good time in keeping things alive
between his care-filled self and his shelled bride.
All day he'd curve around her as she crept

Significance: Stanza's job is to divide verses of a poem. It is also a good way to expand the ideas in a poem.

Imagery

Imagery: A type of poetry which the words of the poem make the reader see in their imagination.

The winter evening settles down

With smell of steaks in passageways.

Six o'clock.

The burnt-out ends of smoky days.

And now a gusty shower wraps

The grimy scraps

Of withered leaves about your feet

And newspapers from vacant lots;

The showers beat

On broken blinds and chimney-pots,

And at the corner of the street

A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps.

And then the lighting of the lamps.

 Significance: Imagery helps the reader to image a picture by words to make them understand what it likes in the poem.

 

Poetry

Poetry: the art or work of a poet that is used to describe or expand the feeling by the use of distinctive style and rhythm.

Ex: There is a god.
     He has a dog.
  But the dog is his lord.
 So who is higher, lord or dog?


Significance: A poetry is an art and a poet is an artist. Anyone can be an artist by creating a poem.