Although many define poem and poetry as being the same thing, they have different concepts. Poem is a literary text composed of verses, stanzas and sometimes rhymes.
Poetry, on the other hand, is an artistic expression that may or may not be based on words such as poems. Thus, poetry is a broader concept that can involve paintings, sculptures, literature, etc. The poem is inserted in the literary universe only.
in short:
- Poem: literary text formed by verses.
- Poetry: artistic production that provokes emotions.
What is a poem?
The poem is a literary textual genre formed by verses. The verse corresponds to a line in the poem and a set of verses is called a stanza.
The poem can have a fixed structure, as in the case of the sonnet (made up of two triplets and two quartets), but it can have a free structure, as in the case of modernist poems.
To better illustrate these examples, see below a fixed-form poem and a free-form poem:
fixed form poem
Lazio's last flower, uncultivated and beautiful,
You are, at the same time, splendor and grave:
Native gold, which in impure denim
The crude mine among the gravel sails...
I love you like this, unknown and obscure,
Loud tuba, simple lyre,
That you have the trumpet and the hiss of the storm,
And the list of nostalgia and tenderness!
I love your wild freshness and your aroma
Of virgin jungles and the wide ocean!
I love thee, O rude and painful language,
In which from the maternal voice I heard: "my son!",
And when Camões wept, in bitter exile,
The blissless genius and the lackluster love!
(Portuguese language, Olavo Bilac)
Freeform poem
I'm fed up with measured lyricism
Of well-behaved lyricism
From the lyricism of a civil servant with an office time book, protocol and expressions of appreciation to Mr. principal.
I'm tired of the lyricism that stops and goes to find out in the dictionary the vernacular nature of a word.
Down with the purists.
All words especially the universal barbarisms
All constructions especially exception syntaxes
All rhythms, especially the innumerable ones
I'm fed up with flirtatious lyricism
Political
Rickety
Syphilitic
Of all lyricism that capitulates to anything outside of itself.
Otherwise it's not lyricism
It will be accounting table of cosines exemplary lover's secretary with one hundred models of letters and the different ways to please & aggravate women, etc.
I want the crazy lyricism first
The drunken lyricism
The hard and poignant lyricism of drunks
The lyricism of Shakespeare's clowns.
- I don't care about the lyricism that is not liberation.
(Poetics, Manuel Bandeira)
Types of poem
Depending on the content present in the poem, it can be:
- Lyrics: they have a sentimental and subjective character, like sonnets.
- dramatic poems: are intended to be staged, like farces.
- epic poems: are characterized by the presence of heroes, such as epics.
In addition to this classification based on literary genres, we can find other types of poems, such as: satirical poems, erotic poems, social poems, etc.
Check out more examples of poems in the texts:
- unmissable love poems
- Poems to reflect on black consciousness
What is poetry?
Poetry is an artistic creation that may be related to literature, however, it has a broader scope than poems. A work of art, for example, has poetry but is not considered a poem.
This is because it represents an artistic creation produced by someone who provokes sensations, emotions and feelings in the receiver. However, he does not use the word as raw material, which is the case with the poem.
To create poetry, the artist goes through a creative process in order to generate something new.
Types of Poetry
Some examples of poetry are:
- Literature
- Photography
- Sculpture
- Painting
- Architecture
- Urban art
- Digital art
- songs
- Films
- Advertising
Read too:
- What is poetry?
- What is a poem?
- How to make a poem?
