Write non-stop for five minutes in response to the following
prompt:
How do you express yourself when you’re:
- Happy
- Sad
- Mad
Poetry is everywhere – in our favorite songs, the nursery rhymes
we read as children, and even in some television commercials.
With a partner, make a list of poems that you have read or
heard. Then answer the following questions:
• Did you find poetry in any unexpected places?
• What do these poems have in common?
• How do the words create mental pictures?
• Do these poems rhyme, or have rhythm?
Once you’ve answered these questions, see if you can define a
poem.
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Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Sensory Imagery
Repetition
Refrain
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Tone
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Haiku
Limerick
Narrative
Acrostic
Shape
Sonnet
Free Verse
… a major form of Japanese verse, written in 17 syllables
-divided into 3 lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables,
-employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons, often on
the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Here are three examples of the haiku of Basho Matsuo, the first great poet
of haiku in the 1600s:
An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.
Autumn moonlight—
a worm digs silently
into the chestnut.
Lightning flash—
what I thought were faces
are plumes of pampas grass.
a five-line humorous poem with a characteristic rhythm, often
dealing with a risqué subject and typically opening with a line
such as "There was a young lady called Jenny." Lines one, two,
and five rhyme with each other and have three metrical feet, and
lines three and four rhyme with each other and have two metrical
feet.
There was an Old Man of Nantucket
Who kept all his cash in a bucket.
His daughter, called Nan,
Ran away with a man,
And as for the bucket, Nantucket.
- Anonymous
• Poems that tell a story.
• Ex: The Raven
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
• a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable
or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in
the text spells out a word or a message
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
"Love not" — thou sayest it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L.
Zantippe's talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,
Breath it less gently forth — and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love — was cured of all beside —
His follie — pride — and passion — for he died.
a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea,
or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes
arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in
the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the
octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a
common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
http://www.sonnets.org/basicforms.htm
nonmetrical verse: verse without a fixed metrical pattern, usually
having unrhymed lines of varying length
Fog by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
• What are the key components of
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haiku poetry
limerick poetry
narrative poetry
acrostic poetry
shape/concrete poetry
sonnets (Italian, Spenserian, and
Shakespearean)
• free verse poetry?
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Rhyme Scheme
Alliteration
Sensory Imagery
Repetition
Refrain
Personification
Simile
Metaphor
Tone
That time of year thou mayst in me behold,
When yellow leaves, or none, or few do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,
Bare ruined choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.
In me thou seest the twilight of such day,
As after sunset fadeth in the west,
Which by and by black night doth take away,
Death's second self that seals up all in rest.
In me thou seest the glowing of such fire,
That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,
As the deathbed, whereon it must expire,
Consumed by that which it was nourished by.
This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong,
To love that well, which thou must leave ere long.