Poetry

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Poetry
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Warm up

• Why do people write poetry?
• Why do people enjoy poetry?

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Five purposes of Poetry

• For entertainment
• To express a feeling or emotion
• To make a political statement
• To honor a person
• To describe something or some event

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To express a feeling or emotion

• What are some emotions?
• Are these the same or different that character
  traits?

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What emotion comes to mind?
What smells, tastes, feelings, sounds?
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Fear

• Fear is red.
• It smells like fire.
• It tastes like rotten tomatoes.
• It sounds like car horns.
• It feels like needles.
• It looks like Freddy Krueger.
• Fear is falling into a bottomless hole.

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Pick an emotion

• (Emotion) is (color).
• It smells like _________.
• It tastes like _________.
• It sounds like ________.
• It looks like _________.
• It feels like __________.
• (Emotion) is like (descriptive phrase).

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Find a picture

• Stack of magazines
• Rip it our CAREFULLY.
• Choose an emotion to go with the picture.
• Write an emotion poem.

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Voice of the speaker
Definition the tone, attitude, emotion, or even
the entire personality of the speaker.
Answer the following questions 1. What do you
see?2. Who are you?3. Where do you come
from?4. What obstacles have you overcome in
life?5. What do you feel strongly about?
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Whats going on??

• How do students your age express themselves and
  political views?
• Get with a partner and list specific examples
• clothes
• music
• graffiti

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Harlem Renaissance 1920 - 1930

• Renaissance (noun) rebirth or new beginning
• Harlem neighborhood in New York City
• A literary explosion that brought a new cultural
  identity for African Americans.

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Harlem Renaissance 1920 - 1930

• What was going on in Harlem at that time?
• Many Blacks left the South for bigger cities
  with more jobs.
• Discrimination was still present.
• Good time for Blacks, but still oppressed by
  racism.
• All of these things and more were expressed
  through the voice of the poetry and literature in
  the Harlem Renaissance.

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• Love is pink.
• It smells like roses.
• It tastes like kisses.
• It looks like him.
• It sounds like phone calls.
• It feels like hugs.
• Love is cuddling closely all night.

What is the voice of this speaker?

• Love is black.
• It smells like dirt.
• It tastes like vomit.
• It looks like death.
• It sounds like screaming.
• It feels like cold wind.
• Love is getting into a car crash.

What is the voice of this speaker?
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What makes a writer's voice forceful,
distinctive, and memorable?
THIS WILL BE ON YOUR TEST!!!
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Discuss voice in two poems from the Harlem
Renaissance

• Mother to Son and Juke Box Love

Answer the following questions 1. What does the
speaker see?2. Who is the speaker?3. Where does
the speaker come from?4. What obstacles has the
speaker overcome in life?5. What does the
speaker feel strongly about?
Due next class!
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What makes a writer's voice forceful,
distinctive, and memorable?
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Figurative Language
Simile describing two things using like or
as
His feet are as big as boats. His feet are big
like boats.
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from Willow and Ginkgo

• The willow is like an etching,
• Fine-lined against the sky.
• The ginkgo is like a crude sketch,
• Hardly worthy to be signed.
• Delicate and thin.
• The ginkgos tune is like a chorus
• With everyone joining in.

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Figurative Language
Metaphor describing two things without using
like or as
His feet are big boats.
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Make a choice Simile or metaphor

• The baby was like an octopus, grabbing at all the
  cans in the grocery store.
• The teacher said, This class is like a
  three-ring circus.
• The Cyclopes steps were thunder as he entered
  the cave.

What does each metaphor or simile mean?
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Figurative Language
Alliteration immediate repeating of the first
consonant sound.
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Repetition repeating of a word or phrase.
I love you.Yes, I do.I love you.
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Dangerously in LoveBeef
Circle similes Square metaphors P next to
personifications R next to repetitions Next to
alliterations
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Think of an example of each device of figurative
language for.
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Get your magazine picture from the last class

• Create one of each for your picture
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Alliteration

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Dont forget the voice of the speaker
Definition the tone, attitude, emotion, or even
the entire personality of the speaker.
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Harlem worksheet
How many times does the word like appear?
What kind of comparison does this word make you
look for? What does the it in the poem refer
to? In other words, what is being compared to
a raisin in the sun For each comparison, what
kind of images are brought to mind, or what kinds
of reactions do you have to the comparison? Is it
a positive association? Negative? Why do you
feel this way? Why do you think the Hughes chose
to make these comparisons? (voice) At the end
of the poem, what explodes? What kind of
comparison is this? Rewrite this poem in your
own words WITHOUT the use of metaphor or simile.
Due next class!
http//filebox.vt.edu/c/cchelira/Word20Documents/
Poetrystations.doc
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Figurative Language
Onomatopoeia words that imitate their sound.
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Figurative Language
Imagery the use of vivid description to
involving your five senses in a poem

• (Emotion) is (color).
• It smells like _________.
• It tastes like _________.
• It sounds like ________.
• It looks like _________.
• It feels like __________.
• (Emotion) is like (descriptive phrase).

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• My father lies black and hushed
• Beneath white hospital sheets
• He collapsed at work
• His iron left him
• Slow and quiet he sank
• Meeting the wet concrete floor on his way
• The wheels were still turning they couldnt
  stop
• Red and yellow lights flashing
• Gloved hands twisting knobs they couldnt stop
• And as they carried him out
• The whirring and buzzing and humming machines
• Applauded him
• Lapping up his dripping iron
• They couldnt stop

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Delight

• Hot fudge on Breyers vanilla
• A bomb pop in August,
• Ice, cold water.
• Georgia OKeefe
• Picasso and Matisse,
• Romare Bearden.
• Luther Vandross
• Andrea Bocelli and Bach,
• Old school 70s.

Mamas macaroni and cheese Chocolate chip
cookies baking, Lavender roses. Silk pajamas on
satin sheets A warm autumn breeze, Feather.
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Your turn

• Write a poem describing something with all five
  senses.

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Rhyme

• Words that end in the same sound.
• Couplet a pair of rhyming lines
• Triplet a set of three rhyming lines

If turkeys gobble Do Pilgrims squabble?
When I wake A shower I take No more my bones ache
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Rhyme

• Quatrain a set of four lines
• a a
• a b
• b a
• b b

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• Tyger, tyger burning bright a
• In the forests of the night. a
• What immortal hand or eye b
• Could frame thy fearful symmetry? b

Out of the night that covers me, a black as the
Pit from pole to pole, b I thank whatever gods
may be a for my unconquerable soul.
b
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Quiz today!!!
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• What are the five purposes of poetry?
• What is it called when you use the five senses in
  a poem?
• What is voice?
• Define alliteration, metaphor, simile, and
  personification.
• What is the difference between the two types of
  quatrains?