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Unit 2 Essay: Poetry
There are many written genres associated with academia that sometimes students get very confused when it comes to distinguish each one of them. A person or a student can spend one entire day thinking at different types of genres related to academia that he or she would come up with a thousand different examples by the end of the day. It is very difficult to give an exact definition to the word genre: there are many points of view regarding this argument that every person develops his/her own definition. To fully understand poetry is important to also focus on the many subgenres it holds in order to have a greater knowledge of this type of literary work.
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Lyric poetry finds its origins in ancient Greece, where this genre of poetry had a very precise technical meaning. Most of these works were sung and the structure differed very much from plays. The great English author William Shakespeare wrote his play Hamlet in a very similar way: “There is nothing wither good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. This is a line from Hamlet that shows how the author embedded the use of lyric poetry in his writing. Most people agree that Hamlet, like Shakespeare’s other plays, is a combination of verse (poetry) and prose. When the nobles in the play speak, their verse structure usually follows the unrhymed iambic pentameter (also called blank …show more content…

“The darkness crumbles away, It is the same old druid Time as ever.” This is an example of historical poetry because it picks a certain period of time, in this case World War I, and focuses on specific moments of the time period. There are many authors from every corner around the world who are very familiar with this type of writing. WWI is a fantastic example of how this genre started to become more and more popular because authors were able to express their feelings through poetry while describing the brutality of the war. This writing contains deep meanings meant to address the reader’s emotions and inform of these catastrophic events happened in the history of human

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