English 9

English – Grade 9
Quarter 2 – Module 18-A: Types and Features of Poetry
First Edition, 2020

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 English 9
Quarter 2
Self-Learning Module 18-A
Types and Features of Poetry
Introductory Message

For the Facilitator:

Welcome to the English 9 Self-Learning Module on Types and Features of

Poetry.

This Self-Learning Module was collaboratively designed, developed, and

reviewed by educators from the Schools Division Office of Pasig City headed by its
Officer-in-Charge Schools Division Superintendent, Ma. Evalou Concepcion A.
Agustin, in partnership with the City Government of Pasig through its mayor,
Honorable Victor Ma. Regis N. Sotto. The writers utilized the standards set by the K
to 12 Curriculum using the Most Essential Learning Competencies (MELC) in
developing this instructional resource.

This learning material hopes to engage the learners in guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Further, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st-century skills especially the 5 Cs, namely: Communication,
Collaboration, Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Character while taking into
consideration their needs and circumstances.

In addition to the material in the main text, you will also see this box in the
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As a facilitator, you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this
module. You also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to
manage their learning. Moreover, you are expected to encourage and assist the
learners as they do the tasks included in the module.
For the learner:

Welcome to the English 9 Self-Learning Module on Types and Features of

Poetry.

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This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
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Expectations - This points to the set of knowledge and skills

that you will learn after completing the module.

Pretest - This measures your prior knowledge about the lesson

at hand.

Recap - This part of the module provides a review of concepts

and skills that you already know about a previous lesson.

Lesson - This section discusses the topic in the module.

Activities - This is a set of activities that you need to perform.

Wrap-Up - This section summarizes the concepts and

application of the lesson.

Valuing - This part integrates a desirable moral value in the

lesson.

Posttest - This measures how much you have learned from the
entire module.
 EXPECTATIONS

This is your self-instructional learner module in English 9. All the

activities provided in this lesson will help you learn and understand: Types
and Features of Poetry.
It is hoped that after completing this module, you will be able to:
1. distinguish types of poetry;
2. use features of poetry for a more creative work;
3. express appreciation, feelings and thoughts through poetry.

PRETEST
Tell whether the statement is a FACT or OPINION. Write your answer on the
space before each number.

________1. Poetry is a form of artistic expression.

________2. Cinquain is an example of numbered poetry.
________3. Haiku poems are three-line stanzas with a 4/5/6 syllable count.
________4. Free verse poetry has pattern.
________5. Tone refers to the attitude the poet takes toward his/her subject.

RECAP

Literary writing is defined as creating new creative work, such as poems

or novels, and compilations or volumes of creative work. It is a subjective
personal view written creatively to amuse or entertain.
The Most Common Forms of Literary Writing are:
1. Short Stories
2. Novels
3. Poems
4. Dialogues
 LESSON

Often times, we have to stop and think for a while when we talk about
poems because the interpretation of its deep meaning requires full
understanding of its nature. However, its nature and features will be our
instruments to express our emotions, thoughts and the best representation
of what we have in mind, hearts and in our environment. Would you also like
to express yourself through poetry? Today’s lesson might push you in doing
so because we will talk about the Types and Features of Poetry.

Types of Poetry
Poetry, in its own way, is a form of artistic expression. But, did you
know there are a lot of different types of poetry? In this self-learning module,
you are going to encounter three common types of poetry.

Free Verse Poetry has no pattern. Rather, the writer and reader must
work together to set the speed, intonation, and emotional pull.
Example:
Mother to Son by James Langston (excerpt)
“Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor…” (https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/534661786981946888/.)

The usual poem that we know has an exact number of stanza but here,
the writer is free to express his/her feelings without following any formula.

Cinquain is an unrhymed poem consisting of five lines arranged in a

special way.
 A cinquain is an example of shape poetry. Because of the exact number
of words required for each line of this poem, a unique shape is created from
interesting, descriptive words. You can follow this basic pattern. Anyone can
have different kinds of pattern and your title could also be your first line.
Example:
Line A: 1 word Planet
Line B: 2 words Graceful, ringed
Spinning, whirling, twirling
Line C: 3 words
Dances with neighbor Jupiter
Line D: 4 words Saturn ("Saturn Facts." Space Facts. Last
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Line E: 1 word

Haiku poems are three-line stanzas with a 5/7/5

syllable count. This form of poetry also focuses on the beauty and simplicity
found in nature. (weather, animals, environment, etc.)
Example:
“The Old Pond” by Matsuo Bashō
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
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set to write a Haiku poem!

Guided Practice 1
Try to identify the poems given below. Check if the following are Free verse,
Cinquain, or Haiku.

1. Over the wintry

Forest, winds howl in rage
With no leaves to blow.
Look up…
From bleakening hills
 Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind…look up, and scent
The snow!

2. Fog" by Carl Sandburg

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

The first poem is a haiku. Notice that it is about nature. It also has
5/7/5 pattern. The second is cinquain. It’s because of the shape and it also
has 5 lines. It doesn’t also have rhyming words. And the last is free verse
poem because it doesn’t follow any pattern. It has no rhyming words as well.

Features of Poetry
Features or elements of poetry can be defined as a set of instruments
used to create a poem. They help bring the imagination and emotion to
poetry, stories and drama.
a. Tone – this refers to the attitude that the poet takes toward his/her
subject. A poem’s tone may be sensed through the use and choice of
the words. It is important to know the tone of a poem, so that readers
can understand what might be the reason why the poet wrote the poem.
b. Mood is the emotional effect to the readers that the author’s attitude
as well as the use and the choice of the words he employed in to his
poem. Common mood created by author’s tone are joy, sadness,
frustration, anger, etc.
c. Imagery – it creates mental images about the poem’s subject. It is the
representation of the five senses: sight, touch, smell, taste, and hearing.
d. Rhythm – pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in each line.
The music liked effect created after applying meter in a poem.
 e. Meter - is a unit of rhythm in poetry, the pattern of the beats. It is
determined by a particular combination of stressed syllables and
unstressed syllables. They include:
 Trochee. Stressed and unstressed pattern
- pronounced as DUH-duh, just like “lad-der.”
 Iamb. Unstressed and stressed pattern
- pronounced as duh-DUH, //as in “in-deed.” / another is:
 Spondee. Two stressed syllables
- pronounced as DUH-DUH,// as in “T-V.” /
 Dactyl. stressed followed by two unstressed syllables which is
- pronounced as DUH-duh-duh,//as in “cer-tain-ly.” / and the
last is:
 Anapest has two unstressed syllables followed by 1 stressed
syllable
- pronounced as duh-duh-DUH, //as in “un-der-stand”/
Anapestic poetry typically divides its stressed syllables across
multiple words.

We determine the measurement of each line in a poem through metrical

feet. Metrical feet refers to how many times a pattern of stressed and
unstressed syllables are repeated over the course of a line of poetry. We
describe the length of a poetic meter by using Greek suffixes:
one foot = monometer two feet = dimeter three feet = trimeter
four feet = tetrameter five feet = pentameter six feet = hexameter
seven feet = heptameter eight feet = octameter

Let’s determine the metrical feet of this stanza from the poem The
Courage That My Mother Had of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
“Oh, if instead she’d left to me
The thing she took into the grave!
That courage like a rock, which she
Has no more need of, and I have.”
 Since the occurrence of the syllables in the lines is unstressed-stressed
and repeated 4 times, we can say that the metrical feet of this stanza is iambic
tetrameter.

f. Rhyme- these are the ending words that have the same ending sounds.
Sample rhyming words are: while/smile and torn/born
g. Rhyme scheme- the pattern in which end rhyme occurs. Usually, we
use the alphabets to identify the rhyme scheme of the poem. If they
have the same ending sounds then they have the same letter. Poets use
this feature to show the beauty, style and feelings of a poem.
h. Theme- it talks about the central idea, the thought behind what the
poet wants to convey. Theme stands for whatever the poem is all about.
Example: revenge, love, importance of friendship, etc.
i. Symbolism- a poem often conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using
symbols.
Example: Lion- brave  Green- nature  Spring- new life

When we use symbols, it could be anything, animals, colors or time.

This also makes the readers take a systematic approach which helps him/her
look at things in a different light.

Guided Practice 2
Since you already know the features of poetry, let’s try to analyze one of the
most famous poems in English literature and identify the features of poetry.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

Write the features of poetry that you can find in the poem.
1. What is the Theme of the poem?
2. How about the tone and mood of the poem?
3. Is there an imagery present in the poem? If yes, what is it?
4. What can you say about the symbolism of the poem?
5. What are the rhyming words in the poem?
6. How about its rhyme scheme?
7. What is its meter?

This poem of Robert Frost has a theme about change. It talks about
how things disappear and nothing is permanent. Nothing good can last
forever. Meanwhile the writer is showing appreciation and realistic tone
showing off what we currently have that will leave in its time. Thus, the
readers feel happy which eventually turns to sadness which eventually
become the mood of the poem. The writer played the readers senses that
created the imagery. The readers can picture about the transformation of bud
to flowers and leaves until it disappears. Frost used gold as symbolism of good
things in life because they are precious while green on the other hand
symbolizes nature. The rhyming words are gold/hold, flower/hour, leaf/grief,
and day/stay while the rhyme scheme of the poem is AABBCCDD with the
meter of iambic trimeter or meter having three iambs per line.

ACTIVITIES

Activity 1
Analyze the poem by answering the guide questions given below.
Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
By William Shakespeare

Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove.

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wand'ring bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me prov'd,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

Identify the following:

1. theme: _______________________________________________________
2. tone: _________________________________________________________
3. symbolisms: __________________________________________________
4. rhyming words: ______________________________________________
5. lines with imagery: ___________________________________________
Activity 2
Compose the following types of poetry. Use a short bond paper and be creative
in crafting your poems. The rubric will guide you in doing the activity.

1. Free verse poetry:

 Talk about your feelings on how you will preserve the environment and
how to take care of your surroundings. Take note that it’s a free verse
so there is no need to follow any pattern.

2. Cinquain- follow this pattern:

Line A: One vague or general one-word subject or topic
Line B: Two vivid adjectives that describe the topic
Line C: Three interesting -ing action verbs that fit the topic
Line D: Four-word phrase that captures feeling about the topic
Line E: A very specific term that explains Line A

3. Haiku- follow the 5/7/5 pattern and remember that it should be

anything about nature.

RUBRICS
Needs
CRITERIA Very Good Fair
Improvement
Conformity to The poem Only some The poem does
pattern follows parts of the not follow
prescribed poem follow the prescribed
pattern prescribed pattern.
pattern.
Features The poem has The poem has The poem has
complete half of the only 2-3
features. features. features.
Theme The theme is The theme is The theme is
appropriate to nearly not appropriate
its kind. appropriate to to its kind.
its kind.

WRAP-UP

In this lesson, I have learned that __________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________.

VALUING

As you write any literary piece, express your feelings for the
environment and how could you help promote love for our environment.
Showing respect for the environment will be a great help, especially now that
our world is getting worse because of pollution, over population, and other
factors, promoting love for the environment will be a great help.

POSTTEST

To answer the following questions, go back to the poem titled Sonnet 116: Let
Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare. Write the letter
of the answer on the space before every item.

_____ 1. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.” The
italicized word means?
A. love B. marriage C. hindrance
_____ 2. What rhyming scheme does the poem follow?
A. BBCD B. CDCD C. ABAB

_____ 3. What do you mean by the line, “Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy
lips and cheeks…”?
A. Love conquers all.
B. Love is never ending.
 C. Love should not be affected even if your appearance change.

_____ 4. In what sense does the line, “Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips
and cheeks” appeal to?
A. Sight B. touch C. hearing

_____ 5. According to Shakespeare, what is true love?

A. Perfect and unchanging.
B. Depends on two people’s fate.
C. It fades through time because of distance.

KEY TO CORRECTION

prov’d, lov’d
5. A 5. FACTS
shaken, taken/ cheeks, weeks/ come, doom/
4. A 4.minds, finds/love, remove/ mark, bark/ 4. OPINION
3. B 3.mind, star, lips, cheeks 3. OPINION
2. B 2.firm but caring 2. OPINION
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