Poetry is an art form where language is used to express artistic and evocative qualities. Contemporary poetry is defined as a basic creative act of using and manipulating language. Contemporary poetry books comprise of modern day poetries.
Poetries be it contemporary poetries or others uses particular forms and standards to expand the literal meaning of the words, or to generate emotional or sensual responses.
Contents of contemporary poetry
Certain elements are more or less used in every poetry. These elements comprises of:
- ambiguity
- symbolism
- irony
- metaphor
- simile
- rhyme or rhythm
In today's world of globalization, poets are also inspired by different cultures often borrow styles, techniques and forms from diverse cultures and languages.
Poetic form of contemporary poetry
Nowadays poetic form is very much flexible than ever before. Many contemporary poets avoid traditional structures or forms, and compose in 'free verse'. The main structural elements used in poetry are usually the line, the stanza or verse paragraph.
Structures of poetry
Poetry is often separated into lines which in most of the cases may be based on the rhyming pattern at the ends of lines. Lines can also serve other functions like separating, comparing or contrasting thoughts expressed in different parts.
Related lines of poems often comprises of stanzas , which are denominated by the number of lines included in it. Thus a collection of
- two lines is a couplet
- three lines a triplet
- four lines a quatrain
- five lines a quintain
- six lines a sestet
- eight lines an octet
