POETRY

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POETRY
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What is Poetry?

• an expression of feelings and views of life in
  imaginative language
• a poem can tell a story or give a poets thoughts
  on experiences, people, objects or events
• poetry is usually written to be read aloud

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What is Poetry?
Poems have certain structures, the form they take
can be based on

• the number of words in each line
• the number of lines in the whole poem
• the number of syllables in the poem
• the rhyming pattern
• the shape they make when written

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...examples...poems

• An Acrostic Poem
• THUNDER
• Terrifying Sound
• High above
• Un-nerving
• Noisy, so loud
• Disturbing the peace
• Electrical energy gone wild
• Reverberating all around
• Louisa Di Bartolomeo

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• Create
• an acrostic poem with
• your name...

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...examples...poems
Limericks
Limericks
Limericks
Limericks
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Whats a limerick?

• A LIMERICK, is a five-line poem written with one
  couplet and one triplet.
• A couplet is a two-line rhymed poem, then a
  triplet would be a three-line rhymed poem.
• The  pattern of the rhyme is  a - a - b - b - a 
  with lines 1, 2 and 5 containing 3 beats and
  rhyming, and lines 3 and 4 having two beats and
  rhyming.
• Some claim that the LIMERICK was invented by
  soldiers returning from France to the Irish town
  of Limerick in the 1700's. 
• LIMERICKS are meant to be funny. They often
  contain hyperbole, onomatopoeia, idioms, puns,
  and other figurative devices. The last line of a
  good limerick contains the 'punch line' or
  'heart' of the joke.

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Looney Limericks.

• How many lines does a limerick have?
• How many syllables are there in each line?
• What is the rhythm of the limerick like?
• What is the pattern of rhyming in the limerick?
• Activity!!!!!
• Practice the rhythm of limericks by clapping you
  hands or snapping your fingers.
• Create your own limerick, jumble up the lines and
  let your friend piece it up in the correct order.
• How would you illustrate the page if your poem
  was published in a book ?

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• 1) Think of 3-4 funny names, situations, and
  places you have visited.... cities,
  provinces/states, countries, addresses, etc.
• 2) Choose 2 that are easiest to rhyme, using only
  the last syllable, eg Beijing bring, fling,
  king, Ming, opening, ring, sing, sling, sting,
  thing ...
• 3) Using one or both of the templates, write
  limericks by filling in the blanks with your own
  rhyming words. Use past tense. There once was a
  man from Beijing . All his life he hoped to be
  King . So he put on a crown, Which quickly fell
  down. That small silly man from Beijing .
  Template - A There once was a ____________
  from __________________. All the while s/he
  _______________________________. So s/he
  _______________________________. And
  _________________________________. That
  ___________________ from ___________________.
  Template - B I once met a _________________
  from ___________________. Every day s/he
  _______________________________________. But
  whenever s/he ______________________. The
  _________________________________. That strange
  ___________________ from ___________________.

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...examples...poems
Shape Poems
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Create a shape poem with your choice
of any object or shape...
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...examples...poems
Lyrical Songs/Ballads
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VINCENT(Don McLean

• Starry Starry Night
• Paint your palette blue and gray, look out on a
  Summers day
• With eyes that know the darkness in my Soul
• Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the
  daffodils,
• Catch the breeze in the Winters chill, in
  colours on the snowy linen land
• Now I understand what you tried to say to me
• How you suffered for your sanity, and how you
  tried to set them free
• They will not listen, they did not know how
• Perhaps theyll listen now
• Starry Starry Night
• Flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling
  clouds in violet haze
• Reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue
• Colours changing hue, morning fields of amber
  grain
• Weathered faces lie in pain are soothed beneath
  the Artists loving hands
• For they could not love you but still your love
  was true
• And when no hope was left inside of that Starry
  Starry night

Lyrical Songs/Ballads
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Starry Starry Night
Vincent Van Gogh
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DreamsUs kids swim off a gray pier
US KIDS SWIM OFF A GRAY PIER, dive off, I go down
the street after emptying my pockets of old
roaches and think I better go through all my
stuff I live in the Fortier cellar in a dismal
damp room furnished like a vampires castle -
people visit me I go to Jerry Richmans and
Bill Wolfes business store and theyre having a
big argument about something theyve fixing or
trying to sell We cut and measure it out, some
nameless huge taffy, we taste it Then theres a
marvelous rack of delicate chocolates and flavors
from all over the world and ground cinnamon nuts
and coffee fruits and they mix them up in a big
batter and bake and Coffee Cake emerges which is
the most delicious thing in the world Thats
yesterdays unfresh cake, I say, Can I have
it? they dont even comment, Im to understand
they only eat freshly baked Coffee Cake Bill
says of a nut dropped Ill eat it, they re
askin a lot for it and he plops it in his mouth
as Jerry does the mixing I try a sweet bitter
chocolate piece shaped like a little stove, from
a box in the rack the Cake comes out square,
streaked with colors like a marble cake, suffused
with exotic African and Brazilian flavors,
crunchy with Cocoa nuts and Nutmeg Nuts and
Crushed Chunky Nut its terrific I hope
theyll give me some, they hardly know Im there
Jack Kerouac
NARRATIVE POEMS
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Responding to Poetry

• Introduction
• Title of the poem / Name of the poet
• Subject of the poem
• Theme (pg 12-14)
• The message of the poem
• Imagery (
• 5 senses (see, hear, smell, touch, taste)

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Responding to Poetry

• Form Structure
• Organization of the poem
• Sequence of ideas
• Rhyme Rhythm (pg 18-21)
• Language
• Sound of the poem
• Choice of words
• Literary devices (Simile, Metaphor,
  Alliteration, Onomatopoeia, Personification,
  Symbolism)

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THEME
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 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. 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---Robert Frost


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IMAGERY
Preludes
The winter evenings settles down With smell of
steaks in passageways. Six oclock. The burnt-out
ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower
wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about
your feet And newspapers from vacant lots The
showers beat On broken blinds and
chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A
lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the
lighting of the lamp ----- TS Eliot
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The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed
with rain water beside the white chickens --
William Carlos Williams
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In a Station of the Metro

• The apparition of these faces in the crowd
• Petals on a wet, black bough.
• -- Ezra Pound

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Pot, Wine-glass, Book
Pablo Picasso
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• To read a poem
• Read it a few times with an open mind
• Listen to the poem.develop an inner ear
• Get the (literal) sense of the poem as a whole
• Establish the basic situation
• Persevere.
• persevere
• persevere..

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The Groundwork
Who is the speaker? Tone? Attitude? Who is the
audience? What is the setting/place/context? What
is the basic situation? How is this
achieved? What is the tone of the poem, the
attitude of the speaker? Features of the poem
that stand out with regards to --- Imagery,
Rhythm, Form, Tone, Metaphor Does the title help
illuminate the poem?
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The End
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