Poems can be used to introduce or practice new vocabulary, language structures, and rhyming devices, and shorter poems often give ELLs a chance to explore an idea while working with a more manageable amount of text than a short story or essay.

7 Common Types of Poetry

• Haiku Poems. Traditionally, haiku poems are three-line stanzas with a 5/7/5 syllable count.
• Free Verse Poems. Free verse poems are the least defined.
• Cinquains. A cinquain is a five-line poem inspired by the Japanese haiku.
• Epic Poems.
• Ballad Poems.
• Acrostic Poems.
• Sonnets.
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Poetry has been used throughout time to reflect on various social issues; many women writers use feminist themes. He states that people who write poetry are aware of what is going on in the world around them, and take personal experiences to provide a lens to connect those to the culture.

Poetry acquaints the reader with unfamiliar terms and encourages verbal analysis. Most poems should not be read in the straightforward manner of prose. The reader must place his own emphasis upon keywords and decode syntax without obvious structure.

Sestet. A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. A sestet refers only to the final portion of a sonnet, otherwise the six-line stanza is known as a sexain.

Octave

But generally speaking, the ambahan is used on those occasions when something embarrassing, unpleasant, delicate or even precious (as love) has to be said. For instance, a boy may tell a girl in plain language that he will never forget her, but it would sound so much nicer if he were to do so in an ambahan.

Answer: Its purpose is to express in an allegorical way, liberally using poetic language, certain situations or certain characteristics referred to by the one reciting the poem.

These ambahans are arranged according to life’s Page 4 THE AMBAHAN: MANGYAN INDIGENOUS POEM OF THE PHILIPPINES 3 cycle from birth to death including other themes such as friendship, sickness, problems, old age and many others. And they are identified by numbers because the poets will never be known.

As a definition, it can be stated that the ambahan is: A rhythmic poetic expression with a meter of seven syllable lines and having rhythmic end-syllables.

Such an oral tradition is commonplace among indigenous cultural groups but the ambahan has remained in existence today chiefly because it is etched on bamboo tubes using ancient Southeast Asian, pre-colonial script called surat Mangyan.

Ginaw Bilog was a Filipino poet who was recognized as a National Living Treasure by the Philippine government. Born on January 3, 1953, Bilog was a Hanunuo Mangyan who was a native of Mansalay, Oriental Mindoro. He was known for his efforts in preserving the Mangyan poetry tradition of ambahan.

Answer: It is most often presented as a chant without a determined musical pitch or accompaniment by musical instruments. Its purpose is to express in an allegorical way, liberally using poetic language, certain situations or certain characteristics referred to by the one reciting the poem.

Answer: the message those are our nearest gives us is that we should respect others and never disrespect your parents.