Transcript Poetry - Ms. Nada & Her Girls

Nada Odeh
“First and Last”
by David McCord
the appearance of the
words on the page
A tadpole hasn’t a pole at all,
And he doesn’t live in a hole in a wall
You’ve got it wrong a polecat’s not
A cat on a pole. And I’ll tell you what;
1. Stanzas
A group of lines arranged
together
A bullfrog’s never a bull; and how
Could a cowbird possibly be a cow?
A kingbird, though, is a kind of king,
And he chases a crow like anything.
Four Stanzas in Couplets
Kinds of stanzas
•Couplet
•Triplet
•Quatrain
2. Lines
a group of words
together on one line
of a poem
“To a Snowflake”
•A stanza
with two lines
1 hello little snowflake!
2 three
where are
all your
friends?
•A
lined
stanza
3
Should I expect a lot of them
before
the morning
ends?
•A 4stanza
with
four lines
5 I love it when you come to me
6 and you all fall down together,
7 and I get dressed to visit you,
8 toasty warm in cold, cold weather.
The poem has 8 lines
divided into quatrains
The poet:
the poet is the author
of the poem.

The speaker
the speaker is the
“narrator of the poem.
It’s the voice reading the
poem.
Remember that the speaker is not always the poet
No, there is a
What kind of
kind of poetry
poetry is that???
that doesn’t have
music…
Poetry written without a regular
“Unload “
by Katherine Foreman
rhyme, rhythm, & form
Coming in laden
Sounds like everyday
conversation.
Frozen at the tips
Does not have any
patterns of stress and
unstressed syllables.
After wrestling with the stuff
A modern type of poetry
The door seems miles away.
We packed into the car
I want more than a heater,
More than a bath and a cat
on my feet.
Words and phrases that do not
mean exactly what they say.
Is it used only in poetry?
Why is it used?
When is it used?
“The World”
by Noel Berry
a comparison of two
things using “like, as
or resembles”
“She is as beautiful as
a sunrise.”
The trees are like the hair of the world.
The city is like the heart of the world.
The wind is a flute player
Playing in the night
The cars beeping horns are like buttons
Beeping inside the earth
Each bird is like a single piccolo
Singing away
Can you find the simile in this poem?
And the grass, just like me
Being buried under the snow.
“Dream”
by Langston Hughes
Hughes
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
A direct comparison of
two unlike things
without using like, as
or resemble.
“All the world is a
stage, and we are
merely players.”
Life is a barren field
Can snow.
you find the metaphor in this poem?
Frozen with
Giving human
qualities to animals,
objects or ideas.
“The winter breeze
whispered secretes in
my ear”
“Snowy Benches”
By Aileen Fisher
Do parks get lonely
In the winter, perhaps,
When benches have only snow
on their laps?
Can you find the simile in this poem?
“There is a Thing”
By Jack Prelutsky
There is a thing
Words or phrases that
Beneath the stair
appeal to the five senses:
With slimy face
sight , hearing, taste, touch
And oily hair
and smell
That does not move
It is what helps you paint a
picture of what the poet is
Or speak or sing
feeling
Or do another
They are “word pictures”
Single thing
But sit and wait
“The juicy hamburgers snapped
Beneath the stair
and sizzled
thepoem?
steaming
in on
this
With slimy faceCan you find the imagery
charcoals grill.”
And oily hair
The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frust
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Figures of speech
that are
exaggerated to
convey a message:
“I called you a thousand
times.”
Can you find the hyperbole in this poem?
Some are fun some are serious some are
interesting and some don’t even sound like
poetry… but they are all types of poetry.
Would you like to see some?