Transcript Document 7217769

 A type of literature…
 Where words are selected for their beauty, sound and power
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to express feelings
That uses a kind of language that is more intense and
expressive than everyday speech
That presents the speaker’s emotions as they are aroused by
beauty, experience and attachment
That provides a fresh, unexpected way of looking at common,
ordinary, everyday things
That gives pleasure through the senses, emotions and
intellect
That deals with highly concise, musical, and emotionally
charged language
That contains a lot of figurative language and follows a
specific form
“Poetry is life distilled.”Gwendolyn Brooks
“Poetry is the search for
syllables to shoot at the
barriers of the unknown and
the unknowable.”- Carl
Sandburg
 It is crucial to your progress as a creative
writer
 You learn to work within strict forms
 You learn to work with effective rhythms
 You learn how to select and use words
properly
 Carefully constructing poems will make you
a better creative writer in any genre
In your notebook, write a poem
about EITHER your own
definition of a poem OR your
view of the importance of a
poem (Max of 15 lines).
 What is free writing?
 DEFINITION: an exercise that many poets use
when they feel “blank” about what to write
 The Importance of Free Writing
 It gets you to physically begin writing
 It helps you to get in the “mood”
 An idea you come up with while free writing
may become a great topic for a poem
 It helps writer’s block
 Why might I get
writer’s block?
 Fear of failure
 How can I defeat
writer’s block?
 Brainstorm
 Free write
 Fear of rejection
 Share with friends
 Fear of success
 Write the easiest part
 Fear of offending
 Fear of running
dry
first
 Change your point of
view
 Tie yourself to a chair
until an idea comes to
you?!?
 Free write for 10 minutes. It can be about
anything and in any format. Don’t pick up
your pen. You must write for the entire
time.
ASSIGNMENT: Pick 1 idea you
came up with during your free
writing and write a 5 line poem
about it.
Remember, a simile is a comparison of 2
normally unlike things using “like” or “as.”
Fill in the blanks to write the most
imaginative similes you can think of--- but
be sure you can explain how the two things
are similar. For example: “The blankets
were wrinkled like my uncle’s face when he
opens his mouth to speak.”
The shirt was as soft as _______________________________.
I wanted to yell at him like ____________________________.
She danced as if ____________________________________.
The coat felt like ___________________________________.
The noise got on my nerves like ________________________.
My mother’s hair smelled like __________________________.
The classroom sounded as if ___________________________.
DIRECTIONS: Pick 1 of the sentences above and make it the
first line of a poem. Your poem should be at least 10 lines
long.
Remember, a metaphor is a comparison of two
essentially unlike things, like a simile, written by
saying one thing is the other. For example, “the sun is
an egg yolk in the morning.” Fill in the blanks below
to creative imaginative, descriptive metaphors. You
can extend the metaphor if you’d like, like, in the
example above, “The sun is an egg yolk in the
morning, dropped into the bowl of the sky without a
speck of shell.”
The window is ____________________________________________.
My family is ______________________________________________.
A mountain is ____________________________________________.
The fog is ________________________________________________.
My personality is __________________________________________.
Life is __________________________________________________.
DIRECTIONS: Pick one of the above metaphors and make it into
the first line of a poem with an extended metaphor. Your poem
should be at least 10 lines.
Remember, imagery is the use of words that evoke a
picture or image by utilizing the senses. Imagine a
door that leads to a place no one has been for 500
years. Describe the 5 senses (taste, touch, smell,
sound, sight) that occur when the door is opened.
DIRECTIONS: Write a poem describing what you find
behid the door that nobody has opened for 500 years.
You must use at least 2 EXAMPLES OF IMAGERY in
your poem and it must be at least 15 lines long.
Remember, repetition is the repeating of a word, phrase or line I a poem.
Repetition of one line throughout the poem can make the poem sound more
musical—although it is a challenge to repeat a line and keep the poem
interesting. For example:
The mountain up above me
And my feet are nervous
The mountain up above me
I start the twisty climb
The mountain up above me
Soon it will be below me
DIRECTIONS: Write a 6 line poem in which three of the lines are the same, or
nearly the same. Your poem should be about some type of journey.
Life is…..
Directions: Pick your own topic.
Write a poem that is at least 20
lines long. It must have at least 1
example of each in it:
 Metaphor
 Imagery
 Simile
 Repetition
You must underline each example
and label it.
Life is getting faster, (REPETITION)
Speeding like a train running out of track. (SIMILIE)
My eyes are tearing waterfalls (METAPHOR)
As I try to grasp onto what is left.
How do I spend my days?
Do I make a difference?
Life is getting faster; (REPETITION)
I am rushing to my grave,
Always pushing toward the weekend
And missing the weekday bliss.
There is more to life than weekends.
Life is getting faster, (REPETITION)
Melting like April snow. (SIMILIE)
My memories are fading
Like photos in the newspaper. (SIMILIE)
I am forgetting where I’ve been before
And I don’t know where I’m going.
Life is getting faster, (REPETITION)
Moving quicker still.
It’s rushing down the sides of my head, (IMAGERY)
To my feet and hitting the floor.
It runs right out onto the street
And I will not see Life more.
 Any poem that uses the 1st letter of
a name, motto or phrase to begin
each line
 Some variations
“An Acrostic” by Edgar Allen Poe
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
“Love not”- thou sayest it in so sweet a way
In vain those words from thee or L.E.L
Zantippe’s talents had enforced so well:
Ah! If that language from thy heart arise
Breathe it less gently forth- and veil thine eyes.
Endymion, recollect, when Luna tried
To cure his love- was cursed of all besideHis folly- pride- and passion- for he died.
 Comes from the Greek for “a carrying up or
back”
 Refers to a type of parallelism created when
successive phrases or lines begin with the
same words
 The repetition can be as simple as a single
word or as long as an entire phrase
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly, doctor-like, controlling skill,
And simple truth miscalled simplicity,
And captive good attending captain ill:
Tired with all these, from these would I be gone,
Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.
 Many centuries old,
Japanese form
 Evokes a mood that
usually has to do with
nature
 17 syllables in 3 lines
 Five syllables
 Seven syllables
 Five syllables
 Try:
http://www.everypoet.co
m/haiku/default.htm
Example:
Jumping like a fish
Out of water. The young boy
Writhes in agony.
 A haiku that does NOT concentrate on
nature
 It concentrates on HUMAN EMOTIONS
 17 syllables in 3 lines
 Five syllables
 Seven syllables
 Five syllables
 Comes from the Greek “aeidein,”
meaning to sing or chant
 A formal address to an event, a person,
or a thing not present
Deathless Aphrodite, throned in flowers,
Daughter of Zeus, O terrible enchantress,
With this sorrow, with this anguish, break my spirit
Lady, not longer! Hear anew the voice! O hear and listen!
Come, as in that island dawn thou camest,
Billowing in thy yoked car to Sappho
Forth from thy father's Golden house in pity! ... I
remember:
Fleet and fair thy sparrows drew thee, beating
Fast their wings above the dusky harvests,
Down the pale heavens…
any poem written in letter form
usually found in the Bible
may sound better if rhyming
should start with “Dear…”
follows the rhyme scheme
ABA, BCB, CDC, DD
indefinite amount of tercets
ends in couplet
 I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain — and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the watchman on his beat
And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.
I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet
When far away an interrupted cry
Came over houses from another street,
But not to call me back or say good-bye;
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night.
 A 14-line rhyming poem
 Usually uses iambic pentameter
 Usually serious in manner
 3 types of sonnets
 Petrarchan (Italian)
 Shakespearean (English)
 Spenserian
 2 quatrains (groups of 4 lines)
 ABBA
 ABBA
 1 sestet (group of 6 lines)
 CDCDCD
 There is usually a change of view between th
octave and the sestet
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with a passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
 3 quatrains
 ABAB
 CDCD
 EFEF
 1 couplet
 GG
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time's waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow,
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanish'd sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.
 3 quatrains
 ABAB
 BCBC
 CDCD
 1 couplet
 EE
 The view usually changes between the
quatrains and the couplet
ONE day I wrote her name upon the strand,
but came the waves and washed it away:
again I wrote it with a second hand,
but came the tide, and made my pains his prey.
Vain man, said she, that dost in vain assay,
a mortal thing so to immortalize,
for I myself shall like to this decay,
and eke my name be wiped out likewise.
Not so, (quod I) let baser things devise,
to die in dust, but you shall live by fame:
my verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
and in the heavens write your glorious name.
Where when as death shall all the world subdue,
our love shall live, and later life renew.
first and third lines rhyme
composed of five stanzas with
three lines each and the sixth
stanza has four lines
AbC dbA dbC dbA dbC dbAC
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at
close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun
in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on
its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Though wise men at their end know
dark is right,
Because their words had forked no
lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good
night.
Grave men, near death, who see with
blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors
and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
Good men, the last wave by, crying
how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced
in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
And you, my father, there on the sad
height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce
tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the
light.
 Consists of 2 separate poems OR 2 separate stanzas
 Each of the 2 is an opposite of the other
 The two must be equal in length and rhyme scheme
 Pick 1 of these approaches to your topics
 Each opposite defends why it is better or best
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXQMoyhPNJA)
 Can be one asking the other questions and the other
responding
 Can be simply describing each topic using imagery
We are sometimes shallow
Other times loyal
We often receive
complaints
Our lives are never straight
But we can’t get enough
Of that woman stuff
We are men
We’re caring and loving
We’re often looking for
husbands
We try to keep our minds
right
Always in the spotlight
It’s too hard to hate us
You must love us
We are women
 A form of Japanese linked poetry
 A GROUP poem
 Members of the group alternate adding
lines to the poem
 Each line in a stanza relates to each
other