folk poetry
People's oral poems
Folk poetry is verse created and transmitted by ordinary people rather than literary elites, often orally and anonymously.
It includes ballads, work songs, nursery rhymes, and proverbs passed through generations.
Folk poetry typically uses simple language, regular rhythms, and repetition to aid memory: The old folk poetry of the region preserved stories that predated written records.
- recitationOral delivery from memory
- oral traditionCulture passed by speech
- balladNarrative poem or song
- folkloreInherited cultural narratives
- call-and-responseAlternating musical exchange
communal storytelling · handed down · tribal lore · old wives' tales · epic · oral history · memorization · mountain ballads · proverbs · mother tongue · improvisation · dialect · oral storytelling · nursery rhyme · singing games · work songs · chant · sea shanties
- Pashto Poetrymasnavi, classical forms
- storiesstory, tale, tales, myth, legend
- folk activitiesstorytelling, ballads, square dancing, line dancing, barn dance
- folk collectionsproverbs, legends, myths, fairy tales, nursery rhymes
- Balkan artshora, brass bands, kilim, filigree, copperwork
- Bengali LiteratureTagore, Rabindra Sangeet, Shankar
folk poetrymodernist poetry
Experimental verse breaking tradition
experimental poetry · confessional poetry · contemporary poetry