Introduction to Poetry

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Introduction to Poetry
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Gwendolyn Brooks
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The Pool Players Seven at the
Golden Shovel.
By Gwendolyn Brooks

• We real cool. We
• Left school. We
• lurk late. We
• Strike straight. We
• Sing sin. We
• Thin gin. We
• Jazz June. We
• Die soon.

http//www.youtube.com/watch?vjyKF2e2CiMk
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Figurative language is a tool that authors use to
help the reader see, feel, experience what is
happening in a poem or story.

• Examples are similes
• metaphors
• personification
• alliteration

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Simile is a comparison using like or as.
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Love is like a rock.
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Other examples

• She was as tall and steely as a skyscraper.
• His shoes were like two boats.
• Her hair was like a rats nest.

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Poem by Emily Dickinson

• Im nobody! Who are you?
• Are you nobody, too?
• Then theres a pair of usdont tell!
• Theyd banish us, you know.
• How dreary to be like somebody.
• How public, like a frog
• To tell your name the livelong day
• To an admiring bog!

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Two treesWillow
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Ginkgo
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Ginkgo