Poetry

=Poetry=

[|Poetry Devices and Notes] [|Poetic devices worksheet]

Worksheet due: Monday, January 29th

[|Rhyme generator]
 * Rhyme generator**

[|Poetry Foundation] [|Poets Org] [|Poetry Out Loud]
 * Poems**

Found Poetry: Search through the newspapers to find interesting words of all shapes and sizes. Cut out words and glue to paper to create your own unique poem.
 * Poetry Station Instructions**

Stolen Line Poetry: Choose one line from a poem to “steal” and use as the first line to your own poem. You can use the mood of the original poem as inspiration, if you wish. Write the original poem’s title & author underneath your finished poem.

Roll the Dice Poetry: [|Roll both dice] to determine the total number of lines in your poem. Be honest! As you write each line, roll both dice to determine the number of words in each line of the poem.

Blackout Poetry: Select a sheet of text & a pencil. DON’T read the passage right away! Instead, scan & look for an “anchor” word a word that jumps out at you. That word will guide the direction of your poem. Once you’ve found your anchor word, read the full text, circling connecting words with a pencil. Remember that your poem will be read left to right & top to bottom. When your poem is ready, black out the remaining text with a Sharpie. Illustrate the black space in a way that supports your poem’s theme, if you wish.


 * Poetry Portofolio**

=Assignment= You are to create a portfolio of your own poetry. It is to be a well-developed, well-organized portfolio that represents an overall theme that can be seen in your layout, poems, and graphics. I will be looking for effort, thought, and adherence to structure and format as I grade your portfolio. Effort includes attempting to be creative and include a variety of poetic devices. Grammar, content, and neatness will also be taken into account. A more thorough rubric and self-assessment checklist will be distributed before your portfolio is due. You are to write your own poetry.

= Layout: in this order = Introduction (not a poem, see below – included with final portfolio only) Limerick Parody poem (include original) Minimum of 10 lines 2 Haikus 2 Free verse poems - Minimum of 10 lines each 2 Rhyme poems - Minimum of 10 lines each 1 “Student Choice” - pick one from the stations (Blackout, Stolen Line, Roll the Dice, Found Poem) Shape poem

Your poems are due before your portfolio is due. Think of it as a rough draft. I will collect your poems (all stapled together, with a title and heading for each poem) and then grade them. **ONLY** the poems are due at this time. **The introduction is due with the final draft**. The final draft will consist of any changes that needed to be made AND your introduction. You will need to make changes and print off a clean copy for your final portfolio. Please remember to put them in the correct order, that each has a title (and heading for the type of poem) and that it is in MLA.
 * Due Dates **

Your visual portfolio should display 5 of your poems in some sort of visual media (iMovie, power point, etc). This will allow for more creativity in fonts, colors, images and possibly audio. This is part of your project grade. Please be creative and take the time to think about what visual aspects can enhance your poetry. Please save your visual as Last Name and PP (ex: Smith PP.mov).

All poems due: Friday, Feb. 2nd

Portfolio due: Friday, Feb. 9th

=Introduction= You also need to write a 1 page, double-spaced, Times New Roman, MLA etc… **introduction to your portfolio.** This is to explain your theme that you carry out throughout the portfolio and how the poems you wrote support that theme. This is similar to an essay that explains and supports your theme.


 * Different Types of Poems **


 * Limerick **


 * Popularized by Edward Lear in 1800’s
 * Five line poem with a strict meter structure
 * Rhyme scheme is A, A, B, B, A
 * Funny, humorous, witty - often has puns, word play, eccentric spelling, or some other witty feature
 * Follows this structure
 * Line 1: 3 metric feet (A) – introduces person/place
 * Line 2: 3 metric feet (A)
 * Line 3: 2 metric feet (B)
 * Line 4: 2 metric feet (B)
 * Line 5: 3 metric feet (A) – usually humorous final line, clever, unanticipated punch line

Example: by anonymous

There was a young fellow of Wheeling

Endowed with such delicate feeling

When he read on the door,

"Don't spit on the floor"

He jumped up and spat on the ceiling!


 * Parody poem: ** a parody of a poem- a parody is a humorous imitation of an original work, an author’s style, or a particular type of literature.

Ex: original by Robert Frost, parody by Henry Beard

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

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

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

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.

Sitting by the Fire on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost's Cat

Whose chair this is by now I know.

He's somewhere in the forest though;

He will not see me sitting here

A place I'm not supposed to go.

He really is a little queer

To leave his fire's cozy cheer

And ride out by the frozen lake.

The coldest evening of the year.

To love the snow it takes a flake:.

The chill that makes your footpads ache,

The drifts too high to lurk or creep,

The icicles that drip and break.

His chair is comfy, soft and deep.

But I have got an urge to leap,

And mice to catch before I sleep,

And mice to catch before I sleep.


 * Haiku **


 * Simple yet sophisticated poem form
 * Creates an image with few words and structured syllables
 * Has two parts, divided by a dash or some form of punctuation
 * Follows the 5 – 7 – 5 format for syllables

Example: by Basho

Yellow rose petals

Drop one-by-one in silence:

Roar of waterfall.


 * Free verse **


 * Poem written without proper rules about form, rhyme, rhythm, meter, etc
 * Poet makes rules about how poem should look, sound, feel, etc.

Example: “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman

=  Song of Myself  =

1

I CELEBRATE myself, and sing myself,

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their

parents the same,

I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death.

Creeds and schools in abeyance,

Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,

I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,

Nature without check with original energy.


 * Rhyme poems: ** a poem that rhymes. Schemes are usually consistent

Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein

There is a place where the sidewalk ends

And before the street begins,

And there the grass grows soft and white,

And there the sun burns crimson bright,

And there the moon-bird rests from his flight

To cool in the peppermint wind.

Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black

And the dark street winds and bends.

Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow

We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And watch where the chalk-white arrows go

To the place where the sidewalk ends.

Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow,

And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go,

For the children, they mark, and the children, they know

The place where the sidewalk ends.

Shape Poem (Concrete Poem)

poem that describes an object and is written in the shape of the object

word is image