Symbol

Def:
Something that is a representative of something else.

Example:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


Sign:
Its important to have symbol in poems because symbol represent difference things in difference ways that only the readers can tell it by themselves. Symbols represent difference ideas to difference people in the world whose has difference culture, tradition, values, language, experiences,...

Alliteration

Def:
Is the repetitive of the first sound in words.

Examples:
Lovely Lucy
Ugly Auntie


Sign:
Alliteration helps to make words rhyme and make the poems or the words kinda funny.

Interpretation

Def:

To understand the meanings, themes, .. by reading actively.

Example:

Here a pretty baby lies

Sung asleep with lullabies:

Pray be silent and not stir

Th' easy earth that covers her.

Interpretation: 

First line: Baby is lying.

Last line: The baby is covered. 

Not by a blanket but by earth. Means the baby is buried. The baby is dead!

Sign:
Interpretation is very important in reading a poems because you read it,  you will have to have skills in order to understand it. Or else, it will destroy the whole purpose of reading the poems. Interpretation means infer what will happen next, summarize what happened in your head,analyzing it..feel the feeling the speaker's trying to shows.

Assonance

Def:
is the repetition or a pattern of similar vowel sounds.
Examples:

The Bells
by
Edgar Allan Poe

Hear the mellow wedding bells,
Golden bells!
What a world of happiness their harmony foretells!
Through the balmy air of night
How they ring out their delight!
From the molten-golden notes,
And an in tune,
What a liquid ditty floats

Sign:

It makes the sounds more creative, like making music in poems, attractive to readers.

Rhyme

Def:
In poems or songs, a rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds in words.

Examples:

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again!


Sign:
It makes the poems more attractive, easy for people to read and remember.

Speaker

Def:
Speaker is the person who tell the stories in a poem, however, a poet and a speaker are not always the same. Because not every "I" in the poems are the words of the poet.
Examples:

The Road is not taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that, the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

=> The "I" that the author is using may describing an experience of the speaker but not the poet.

Sign:
Poet doesn't have to feel the same as the speakers. Assuming that the poet is saying something that he/she has not experience her/himself would be more creative because the speakers make up a character that is not the poet.

Elegy

Def:
Is usually a sad stories about funeral, or death of somebody

Example:

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
by
Thomas Gray

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Sign:

Elegies are a type of poems where the authors express their sadness, mournful things through words, or telling  stories about someone important died to make readers feel empathy.