Meaning of Poem (What is it, Concept and Definition)

What is Poem:

The poem is called the literary composition written in verse, which belongs to the genre of poetry and whose metric structure is responsible for rhythmic training.

Another way to use this term is to refer to a situation or thing that is considered slanderous, out of place or particular in a negative sense.For example, “After losing the game, your face was a poem ”.

The word poem comes from the Latin poēma , and this from the Greek ποίημα ( poiēma , which means creation , hazana) and ποιήμα ( poiesis ), whose root is poiein (make, create).However, originally the word poem was used to name any literary work.

Types of poems

Traditionally, poems belong to the literary genres of lyric, epic, narrative and drama.

Consequently there are several types of poems, including what is so written in verse or prose and whose internal structures vary according to rhyme and rhythm.

Lyric poem: Lyric poems are the most subjective because they express, through the word, feelings and perceptions of the author about love, life, death, among other topics.

It is characterized by the use of short verses.Among the lyric poems you can name the ode, the satire, among others.

Epic poem: are the poems that narrate the adventures and deeds that occurred in the battles.

They also describe the struggles and achievements of beings supernatural (gods or demigods), which mixed among men.Sometimes these poems had musical accompaniment.

One of the most popular examples is Homer's work, The Odyssey.

Dramatic poem: are those that are represented in plays.

See also the meaning of Poetry.

Features of the poem

Las charact Erotic poems can be defined by performing a literary analysis of them in which you can define important features such as the type of verse, stanza and rhyme.

The poems that are written in verses, are distinguish in poems of minor art (of eight or less syllables) and major art (of nine or more syllables).

Depending on the rhyme, the verses of a poem can make use of rhymed verses (assonance or consonant), loose verses, blank verses and free verses.

However, it is not necessary to write poems only in verse, too they can be written in prose and it is what is known as poetic prose.

Examples of poems

Both poetry and poems have been part of the artistic expressions of man since ancient times.The poems can deal with many topics but, the most common is love.

These are some examples of Spanish-language poems, among the best known, are:

- Poem XX by Pablo Neruda, belonging to his work Twenty love poems and a desperate song .This poem begins with a verse full of strength, "I can write the saddest verses this night...".

- Rima XXI by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer from the book Las rimas ,

" What is poetry ?, you say while nailing

in my pupil your blue pupil.

What is poetry? And you ask me?

Poetry...it's you."

- Like who hears rain , by Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, published In the book Tree inside .

See also the meaning of Poem In Peace by Beloved Nervo.

Poems in nahualt

The poems produced in the Nahuatl language in the pre-Columbian era represent a cultural vestige of the Mexican or Aztec people.They have a varied theme such as love, homeland, the passage of time and death.

Some of them try to give an explanation of the origin of the world and of the human being.They also mention gods, natural and supernatural elements.

An example of a poem in Nahualt is Anguish before death of Nezahualcoyotl, sovereign or tlatoani of Tetzcuco (Texcoco) during the 15th century and included in the volume Mexican Songs .

Niuinti, nichoka, niknotlamati,

nik mati, nik itoa,

nik ilnamiki:

Ma k to aik nimiki

ma ka aik nipoliui.

In kan ajmikoa,

in kan on tepetiua,

in ma onkan niau...

Ma ka aik nimiki,

ma ka aik nipoliui.

I'm drunk, I cry, I grieve

I think, I say,

inside I find it:

if I never died,

if I never disappeared.

There where there is no death

there where she is conquered,

that I go there...

If I never died,

if I never disappeared.