POETRY WRITING ASSIGNMENT DUE DATE MONDAY NOVEMBER 30th Helpful resource: Shadowpoetry.com On Monday November 30th, you will be responsible for submitting 4 original poems, typewritten by you. You may choose the style of your 4 poems from the list below, and you may only use each style once. Limerick Ode Nonet Free Verse Monorhyme Palindrome Septolet Concrete/Visual/Shape Rhyming Couplet Each of your poems must adhere to the formal qualities / structure of that style (consult the style example sheet given to you, or Shadowpoetry.com), and must contain 2 different stylistic devices; selected from the following list: simile metaphor personification imagery foreshadowing caricature hyperbole irony onomatopoeia stereotyping reverse-stereotyping or alliteration. One of your poems must be about: Food. The second poem must be about: Things You Don’t Understand The third poem must be about: You The fourth poem must be about: Emotions 50 – 60 minutes of class time will be given during each Language period this week. Each of your poems is to be written in Language class and done in your Writing Workbook. There is to be evidence of self-editing, and peer editing for each poem. Laptops will be made available on Thursdays to type your work. EVALUATION Poetry Styles Stylistic Devices Level 1 Level 2 Poems loosely adhere Poems closely to required formal adhere to required structure. formal structure. Level 4 All 4 poems adhere to required formal structure exactly.( i.e rhyme scheme, syllables, stresses etc.) Stylistic devices are not consistently used / identified in the body of the poem. Stylistic devices are consistently used / identified in the body of the poem, and used accurately and effectively Author forced content to match Creativity poem type, resulting in vocabulary and subject matter below grade level. Level 3 All 4 poems adhere to required formal structure. ( i.e rhyme scheme, syllables, stresses etc.) Stylistic devices are Stylistic devices are consistently used / consistently used / identified in the identified in the body body of the poem. of the poem, and They may be used used accurately. inaccurately. Content and poem Content and poem type are a fairly type are a good good match and match and grade vocabulary is used appropriate to develop creative vocabulary is used in element. an effort to develop creative element. Content and poem type compliment one another and grade appropriate vocabulary is used precisely in an effort to develop creative element. Cinquain A Cinquain is a short, unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines. The most popular form is as follows: Line 1: Noun Line 2: Description of Noun Line 3: Action Line 4: Feeling or Effect Line 5: Synonym of the initial noun. Example: angels kind beyond words they protect and forgive and make feelings of blissfulness cherebum Ode An Ode is a poem praising and glorifying a person, place or thing. Example #1: An Ode To Dreamers When dreamers dream And lovers love Do they receive their visions From heaven above? Or do they originate Where all things start Within our minds Within our hearts? I know not all But what I do know is this You cannot build a Kingdom Upon a flimsy wish So believe in your dreams Follow them blind Lest you loose them all, To the hands of time Limerick A Limerick is a rhymed humorous, nonsense poem of five lines. Rhyming scheme of: aa-b-b-a and then the syllable structure is: 9-9-6-6-9 This is the most commonly heard first line of a limerick: "There once was a man from Nantucket" Example: I am a pretty little flower I am endowed with lots of power when you pick me in green I'll bite you 'cause I'm mean And live to see another hour. Nonet A nonet has nine lines. The first line has nine syllables, the second line eight syllables, the third line seven syllables, etc... until line nine that finishes withone syllable. It can be on any subject and rhyming is optional. line 1 - 9 syllables line 2 - 8 syllables line 3 - 7 syllables line 4 - 6 syllables line 5 - 5 syllables line 6 - 4 syllables line 7 - 3 syllables line 8 - 2 syllables line 9 - 1 syllable Haiku Haiku is an unrhymed Japanese verse consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables (5, 7, 5) or 17 syllables in all Example #1: Pink cherry blossoms Cast shimmering reflections On seas of Japan Monorhyme A Monorhyme is a poem in which all the lines have the same end rhyme. (Also see Ghazal) Example: Late for Class I realized it was half past four When I, quite late, ran out the door. My history class I so abhor, But I missed two sessions the week before. I failed a test on ancient lore And forgot the date of the Second World War. (Man, my brain was really sore.) Up the marble stairs I tore, And slid across a just-mopped floor: I banged my knee and loudly swore, To wake -again- at half past four! These nightmares I can stand no more... Palindrome Poetry Also Known as Mirrored Poetry A palindrome, by definition, is a word, phrase, verse, sentence, or even poem that reads the same forward or backward. Example #1: Reflections Lifeimitates nature, always moving, traveling continuously. Falling leaves placed delicately; foliage touching the echoing waters, clarity removed Reflections distorted through waves rippling; gracefully dancing mirrored images - reflect images mirrored. Dancing gracefully, rippling waves through distorted reflections removed clarity. Waters echoing the touching foliage; delicately placed leaves falling continuously traveling, moving always, nature imitates life. Septolet The Septolet is a poem consisting of seven lines containing fourteen words with a break in between the two parts. Both parts deal with the same thought and create a picture. - Sent in by Crystal Rose. Example: Untitled Lion moving swiftly across the plain, most intent. Antelope grazing contently on his meal. Shape Poetry -Shape Poetry is also called Concrete PoetryShape is one of the main things that separates prose and poetry. Poetry can take on many formats, but one of them most inventive forms is for the poem to take on the shape of its subject. So if the subject of your poem is a fish, then the poem's lines would be written so that the poem appears to take on the shape of a fish. ><<<*> Concrete or Visual poetry, however, doesn't have to take on a particular shape, but the wording in the poem can enhance the effect of the words such as in this line: an angel tumbling d o w n to earth . . . Example #1: Birth of a Triangle mama and papa and baby make three, reaching sides of a three-sided tree. oedipal winds rustle from leaves; triangular shapes converting dissimilarity into peeves. straight lines connect the corners turned; mirrored sight un-burned; buried am i