poem help please?

Question

ok well im a freshman in high school and a cheerleader and i have grade checks in a week! so there is a report for my english class i have to do to still be qualified and i need help can anyone tell me some famous poems cuz i need like spacific types but im not sure how to tell them apart(ex:alliteration sonnet hykue personifacetations...ect)
well if so thanks a whole bunch
god bless<3

Answer 1

Google "types of poetry" then copy and paste into your report.

Answer 2

First of all, alliteration and personification are not types of poems...whereas sonnets and haiku "are" different types. A sonnet comes in a few varieties, the most famous of course being the Shakespearean sonnet, made up of 12 rhymed lines in a pattern of abab cdcd efef followed by a pair of rhymed lines (called a "couplet") at the end. A Haiku is a Japanese style of poetry that uses "nature" words and a strict form composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven and five syllables. "modern" Haiku, or non-traditional haiku, simply keeps the form without the requirement that it contain a nature word or be about nature. An example of a modern haiku could be:

I have never loved
But I have been loved before
Beauty played no part

An alliteration would be, "they sweetly sing their saddened songs", in fact, that would also be a "sibilant" alliteration because the "s" is what is being repeated.

A personification would be anything that implied human feelings or thought of a non-human or abstract things, as in "the lion laughed" or "the clouds rained their sadness down on me".

As far as "famous poems", you should be able to google that and get many to choose from.

good luck

Answer 3

alliteration: literary term used to describe the repetition of initial sounds at the beginning of words in a poem, for example, "Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;" from "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold.

Sonnets are a little more complicated to explain. I would read this Wikipedia article, to get a fuller understanding of what a sonnet is (see source list below). But it would be good to know that there are two kinds of sonnets, english and italian. Petrarch was a famous writer of Italian sonnets. Shakespeare also wrote some famous sonnets, for example,

XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimm'd:
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee

Notice how the last two lines of the sonnet rhyme? This is called a rhyming couplet (the ending words, "see and thee" rhyme. This is really a solution to the sonnet. You see, sonnets begin with a problem to be solved. In this sonnet, the asker wants to know how he can compare his lover to a summer's day if his lover will grow old and be gone? The answer is that the poem itself will memorialize the beauty of his lover.

A haiku is a type of poem like a sonnet. Again, read the article from Wikipedia below.

Personification is a type of metaphor in literature. Personification is simply giving human characteristics to non-human objects. For example, in Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken", the road could be interpreted as a person's lifespan.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

If you go to the article I posted on Frost's poem in the Sources on this poem, it also talks about this line being an example of personification, "Because it was grassy and wanted wear;". How can a road "want". Roads cannot want. Only human beings have that capacity.