POETRY

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POETRY

• Song lyrics, greeting cards, and commercial
  jingles

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POETRY

• A POEM IS A LIE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH.
• YOU CANT HAVE POETRY WITHOUT METAPHOR OR SIMILE,
  THAT COMES FROM METAPHOR, AND EVERY METAPHOR IS A
  LIE THAT TELLS THE TRUTH.

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POETRY

• THE POET DOES NOT NECESSARILY WRITE WHAT
  HAPPENED, OR THE FEELING HE/SHE HAD AT A TIME IN
  THE PAST, BUT SOMETHING NEW THAT IS CREATED IN
  WORDS TO TELL THE TRUTH OF WHAT HAPPENED AND HOW
  HE/SHE FELT ABOUT IT.
• A POEM IS A PHOTOGRAPH IN WORDS

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A poem is more than a metaphor

• A strong, memorable metaphor or simile is more
  than just the difference between something
  literal and something figurative.
• Its about writing or saying something original.
  
• As creators of poetry, how can you write or say
  something in a way that no one else has?
• Do you ever feel like a plastic bagDrifting
  through the windWanting to start againDo you
  ever feel, feel so paper thinLike a house of
  cardsOne blow from caving in
• Do you recognize these words/lyrics?
• What makes the comparison significant?

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What makes Poetry different?

• See page 578 in the textbook Write a summary of
  Part 1
• Study the poem A Fine Head of Lettuce Who is
  the speaker?
• How many stanzas does the poem have? How many
  lines per stanza?
• What words rhyme? Is there a pattern (rhyme
  scheme)? What verbal joke (pun) do you find in
  the last line?

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Creators of Poetryand an Audience of Poetry

• Be original!
• Write something that no one else would think of
  writing!!!
• Poems are built on metaphors and similes, so
  thats what we are going to do.

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A poem should be

• A poem should be mysterious
• like_____________
• A poem should be silent like
• _________________________
• But most of all, a poem should be
• As wordless as _________________

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Dream Deferred

• What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry
  upLike a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a
  sore--And then run?Does it stink like rotten
  meat?Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy
  sweet?Maybe it just sagslike a heavy load.Or
  does it explode? Langston Hughes

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Dreams

•   Hold fast to dreamsFor if dreams dieLife is
  a broken-winged birdThat cannot fly.Hold fast
  to dreamsFor when dreams goLife is a barren
  fieldFrozen with snow. Langston Hughes

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Dreams

• Dreams can be as big as______________
• Or small like_______________________
• Dreams can be as round as ___________
• Or flat like _______________________
• Dreams can be as golden as _________
• Or green like ______________________

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A poem is a secret that the poet shares.

• What does this mean? Explain that statement.
• Lets write our own secret poem.

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SECRETS

• 1. A secret can be hidden like_________
• 2. Or is can be as easy to see
• 3. as__________________________
• 4. A secret can be as red as ________________
• 5. or blue like ____________________
• 6. A secret can be as soft as ___________
• 7. Or hard like ______________________
• 8. A secret can be kept like ____________
• 9.Or thrown away like ______________
• 10. A secret is a school of ________________
• 11. A secret is a child trying to
  _________________

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Autobiographical Poem

• I am leading a _______________ life
• My life is (same word as above) like
  ___________
• The world goes by me like ________________
• I had a ___________________ childhood
• It was as (same word as above) as ____________
• I had _______________ and ______________
• I read _______________ and ______________
• Sometimes I thought I was ________________
• Or ___________________________________

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Autobiographical poem cont.

• And now my world is ________________
• I love to see _____________________
• I hate to hear _____________________
• I know beauty is a mirror of __________
• I know love is a poem of _____________
• I know sorrow is a symphony of ________
• I have lost __________ and __________
• I know a wish is as soft as____________
• My heart is _______________________

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Time

• Time moves like _____
• But can be as still as_______
• Time can be as straight as_____
• Or crooked like_____
• Time can be as smooth as_____
• Or rough like______
• Time can be lost like____
• Or found like____
• Time is a song of______
• Time is a dance of_____
• Time is an arrow _____
• Time is a child chasing______