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Occasion Poetry
The holidays are upon us. You know, those special occasions with family and family—decorating, celebrating, thanking and celebrating some more. This makes it the perfect time to talk about the genre form called occasion poetry.
Below you’ll find information for two specific kinds of occasion poems, and one poetry form that can also be considered an occasion poem.
Sometimes the fall and winter holidays seem to run together. Perhaps marking the occasion with a poem can help individualize them more. If not, any excuse to write poetry works! Right? ;)
Epithalamion/Epithalamium/Prothalamion/Prothalamium
Epithalamion/Epithalamium: Primarily for weddings with a focus on the bride and groom.
Prothalamion: More for marriage—but still can be for a wedding, since that is the beginning of a marriage.
BRIEF HISTORY
Epithalamion/Epithalamium: Historically a poem that was sung.
Prothalamion/Prothalamium: Also sung, historically.
MUST HAVES
--Topic/theme: Weddings, marriage, brides, and grooms.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, or length--unless following a form, then follow the format required for the form.
--Any rhyme--unless following a form, then follow the rhyme required for the form.
--Any meter--unless following a form, then follow the meter required for the form.
Genethliacum
Genethliacum: Honoring a birth.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: birth, new life.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Any number of stanzas, or length--unless following a form, then follow the format required for the form.
--Any rhyme--unless following a form, then follow the rhyme required for the form.
--Any meter--unless following a form, then follow the meter required for the form.
Memento
Form created by poet Emily Romano.
MUST HAVES
- Topic/theme: about a holiday or anniversary.
COULD HAVES or WHAT IS THE POET’S CHOICE IN ALL THIS?
--Two stanzas.
--Rhyme scheme: a, b, c, a, b, c
--Meter: 8 syllables, 6 syllables, 2 syllables, 8 syllables, 6 syllables, 2 syllables.
SOURCE NOTES:
The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Ales Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. 1993.
Turco, Lewis. The Book of Forms. 3rd. Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2000.
http://www.dailyhaiga.org/contributors/18/romano-emily
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/memento.html
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Theme: Some poems for fall/winter occasions.
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