Introduction to Poetry

Poetry impacts the lives on everyone in many ways. The lyrics of songs are poems. Most people involve poetry, in one of its forms, in the most important events in their lives: falling in love, marriage, children, and death. This page is intended to be an introduction to poetry. Hopefully it will enable readers to understand it better and thereby be able to find more meaning in it in their lives.

Poetry Anthology

This anthology contains a large number of popular poems

Read through several of these poems, and choose 2 or 3 that you especially enjoy.

Search for text of a poem

Find a poem even if you don't know the author or the title.

Using the information in this site, locate a poem that you are slightly familiar with.

Sonnets

Here you will find extensive information about all types of sonnets and their poets, including the home pages of these poets.

Read several sonnets and find one that you especially like.

Poetry Contests

This site keeps you abreast of current trends in poetry and includes ongoing poetry writing contests.

Poetry Overview

Here you will find instructions to help you understand kinds of poetry, elements of poetry, and history of poetry.

How To Read a Poem

The information on this site will help you evaluate a poem for better reading.

Read the five questions on this site, and apply them to a poem you are familiar with. See if it improves your reading of the poem.

Haiku

This site teaches you how to write Haiku and gives examples of this form of poetry.

What do you like most about Haiku?

Poetry

Here you will find nearly a score of good web sits on the subject of poetry.

As you evaluate the poetry in your life, realize that poetry is important to you because it says what you feel in the most powerful and succinct way possible.

Author: REED TURNBOW - Email riskyreed@gmail.com