Poetry

1
Poetry

• Mrs. Pasquarelli

2
What is poetry?

• Creative writing characterized by formal patterns
  of verse, thought, and emotion, lines and
  stanzas, rhythm and rhyme.

3
Types of Poetry
4
Youre a poet and didnt know it

• Unit test on poetry November 31, 2005

5
What's that you say?

• There is no November 31?! How do you know?
• 30 days has September, April, June and November
• 31 has all the rest
• Except February which has 28, except in a leap
  year

6
Check it out

• You just used poetry. See, poetry is used
  everyday. Did you know the music you listen to is
  a form of poetry?
• Bet you thought poetry was boring..

7
Elements of poetry

• Theme Main idea
• Purpose Choose audience, think about purpose,
  and support theme with description
• Mood - Feelings
• Form Choose poetic form

8
Put your heart into it

• When you are writing poetry, remember to write
  with your heart. Take whatever you are feeling
  inside and write it down.

9
Free Verse

• Poem free of the requirements of regular length,
  meter or rhyme.

10
Winter PoemBy Nikki Giovanni

• Once a snowflake fell
• On my brow and I loved
• It so much and I kissed
• It and it was happy and called its cousins
• And brothers and a web
• Of snow engulfed me then
• I reached to love them all
• And I squeezed them and they became
• A spring rain and I stood perfectly still and was
  a flower

11
Write your own
12
Haiku

• Usually describes a natural object
• Format
• Line 1 5 syllables
• Line 2 7 syllables
• Line 3 5 syllables

13
The RoseBy Donna Brock

• The red blossom bends
• And drips its dew to the ground.Like a tear it
  falls

14
Your turn

• Choose something we associate with Winter and
  write an original Haiku about it.

15
Narrative Poems - Tell a story

• Excerpt from In Hardin County
• Why, Ben, its been quite a spell
• Since Ive seen you. The folks all well?
• Bring any news from up near town?
• Why, yes, Dyou know John Ezry Brown?
• They say that hes a-goin down
• To Washington in all the din
• To see Jim Madison sworn in.

16
Lyric Poem

• Appeals to senses and emotions
• Personal and objective
• Mood is set by carefully chosen words

17
The others are

• Limerick
• 5 lined poem with one couplet and one triplet
• Meant to be funny
• A flea and a fly in a flue
• Were caught, so what could they do?
• Said the fly, Let us flee.
• Let us fly, said the flea.
• So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
• -Anonymous

• Concrete
• Verse arranged visually or shaped to represent
  the theme.
• See example teacher is holding up. Can you see
  the shape?

18
And some more

• Diamante a from of unrhymed poetry that
  physically represents a diamond.
• See the teacher sample.

• Ode Lengthy formal lyric poem with a serious
  tone.
• To Chicken Pox Anonymous
• To chicken pox,
• Your polka dots
• Have left me
• Full of fancy spots.
• From head to toe,
• And, do you know,
• Ive counted 300 and theres more to go!
• Im red and white.
• I itch all night.
• Be done with me!
• Please stop this fight.
• Goodbye spots and itchy socks.
• Go to Mars.

19
Your turn again!

• Assignment Choose THREE poems from the last two
  slides and write your own original poem for each.
  Next week I will be collecting all of the poems
  you wrote this week in FINAL form. This will
  count as an essay grade.

20
Seepoetry can be fun! Enjoy your writing
activities.

• Oh! Remember that unit test?! It will be November
  30th. Study all of your terms.