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Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the
dictionary. ~Kahlil Gibran
Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own
highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance. ~John Keats
A poet can survive everything but a misprint. ~Oscar Wilde
What is Poetry?
 A form of writing designed to evoke an
emotional response in the reader.
 A way for a person to express
themselves and their feelings.
 The language of love and dreams.
 An often symbolic form of writing
usually in stanzas, often rhyming.
Limerick
 A short sometimes vulgar, humorous poem
consisting of five anapestic lines. Lines 1, 2,
and 5 have seven to ten syllables, rhyme and
have the same verbal rhythm. The 3rd and
4th lines have five to seven syllables, rhyme
and have the same rhythm.
Limericks…
Twas a crazy old man called O'Keefe
Who caused local farmers much grief
To their cows he would run
Cut their legs off for fun
And say "Look, I've invented ground beef!"
Limerick
There was a young rustic named Mallory,
who drew but a very small salary.
When he went to the show,
his purse made him go
to a seat in the uppermost gallery.
Man From Aruba
There once was a man from Aruba,
Whose favorite hobby was scuba.
Every day he would wish,
He could spear a big fish.
But settled instead for canned
tuna.
Limericks
There once was a boy from Montreal
Who loved to play basketball
For a team he tried out
But if he made it, I doubt
For you see, he was three feet tall!
When you sneeze and you cough and you're achin'
And you feel that your body is breakin'
Just try to recall
It's still only Fall;
Old man winter has yet to awaken.
Limericks
Young Anton thought he
would go far
He wanted to become a big
star
But when crossing the
street
He tripped over his feet
And was hit by an
oncoming car
(Author was 8!)
There once was a young girl
named Meg
Who accidentally broke her
_______.
She slipped on the ______.
Not once, but thrice
Take no pity on her, I
__________.
Limerick
There once was a turkey named Chicken
Come thanksgiving he was ripe for the pickin’
And though he screamed and he ran, he couldn’t avoid
the man
And now’s what we call finger-lickin’
~By Emily McCarthy
(Was a 6th grade student when
I taught her & she wrote this!)
Rebus Poetry
 Uses pictures, pictograms, and symbols to create a
riddle or a poem.
Do you carrot all for me?
My heart beets for you,
Our love is as soft as a squash,
But as strong as an onion
With your turnip nose
For you are a peach,
With your radish hair,
And your turnip nose,
You are the apple of my eye,
If we cantaloupe,
Lettuce marry;
For I know we would make a happy pear.
Haiku
 a Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed
lines of five, seven, and five syllables.
Traditionally they were about nature.
See the red berries…
Fallen like little footprints
On the garden snow.
~Shiki
Haiku
Concrete
Poems
The poet uses the
shape of the poem
on the page to
symbolize an idea
or image within
the poem.
Concrete
Poetry
Poetry Elements
 Sound is used in poetry to add imagery and evoke the readers sense
preceptors, especially when read aloud. This key element is also what
makes poetry unique in regards to other forms of writing. The following
types of sound effects are used:
 Alliteration- repetition of the same first letter or sound in a group of
words (Peter Pettigrew)
 Assonance-repetition of vowel sounds within words (Sci-Fi)
 Onomatopoeia- words that sound like what they describe (Meow;
Croak)
 Rhyme-repetition of sound at the end of words or lines
 Rhythm gives poetry a musical quality with the use of stressed or
unstressed syllables
 Stanzas- an arrangement of lines that form units within a poem (can be
called couplets, quatrains, etc.)
POETRY ELEMENTS
 Figurative language is used to add greater depth to the
meaning of words and is used to create imagery with the
use of comparisons. There are three types,
 Metaphor- direct comparison of dissimilar things that is
meant to show equality between them. For example, My
savior, my redeemer was the snow that fell right before the
morning commute.
 Simile- comparison that uses ‘like’ or ‘as’‘. For example,' I
love you like a long song, (baby)’
 Personification- a comparison that gives human qualities
to objects, animals or ideas. For example, “The butter
cream cake taunted me.”
Acrostic
simple poems in which each the
first letter of each line forms a
word or phrase (vertically). An
acrostic poem can describe the
subject or even tell a brief story
about it.
Free Verse
The poet creates the line breaks and
stanzas where he wants them.
Rhyming usually is not present.
Identity
Julio Noboa Polanco
Let them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.
I’d rather be a tall, ugly weed,
clinging on cliffs, like an eagle,
wind-wavering above high, jagged rocks.
Free Verse
Fog
by Carl Sandburg
The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always
meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the
bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which
grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars
apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
E.E. Cummings
Free Verse
 Like Lily Like Wilson
I’m writing the poem that will change the
world,
And it’s Lily Wilson at my office door.
Lily Wilson, the recovering like addict,
The worst I’ve ever seen.
So, like, bad, that the entire eighth grade
Started calling her Like Lily Like Wilson
Like.
Until I declared my classroom a like-free
zone,
And she could not speak for days.
When she finally did, it was to say,
Mr. Mali, this is…so hard
Now I have to think before I …say anthing.
Imagine that Lily.
It’s for your own good.
Even if you don’t like…
it.
I’m writing the poem that will change the
world
And it’s Lily Wilson at my classroom door.
Lilly is writing a research paper
About how homosexuals shouldn’t be
allowed to adopt children
I’m writing a poem that will change the
world
And it’s Like Lily Like Wilson at my office
door.
I can’t believe I’m saying this Mr. Mali,
But I think I’d like to switch sides.
And I want to tell her to do more than just
believe it,
But to enjoy it!
That changing your mind is one of the best
She’s having trouble finding souces,
ways
Which is to say, ones that back her up.
Of finding out whether or not you still have
They all argue in favor of what I thought I
one.
was against.
Or even that minds are like parachtues,
That it doesn’t matter what you pack
And it took four years of college,
Them with so long as they open
Three years of graduate school,
At the right time.
And every incidental teaching experience I O God, Lily, I want to say,
ever had to let out only
You make me feel like a teacher,
And who could ask to feel more than that?
Well, that’s a really interesting problem, Lilly. I want to say all of this but manage only,
But what do you propose to do about it?
Lilly I am like so impressed with you!
That’s what I want to know.
And the eighth grade mind is a beautiful
thing;
Like a new-born baby’s face, you can often
see it
Change before your very eyes.
So finally I taught somebody something,
Namely, how to change her mind.
And learned in the prcess that if I ever
change the world,
It’s going to be an eighth grader at a time.
Cinquain Poetry….
 Five defined lines--- each line has a specific form/function.
 Line1: A noun
Spaghetti
 Line2: Two adjectives
Messy, spicy
 Line 3: Three -ing words slurping, sliding falling,
 Line 4: A phrase
Between my plate & mouth
 Line 5: Another word for the noun Delicious.
Cinquain Poetry…
 Cinquain Poetry with five lines.
 Example 1 (by Cindy Barden):
Line1: One word
Line2: Two words
Line 3: Three words
Line 4: Four words
Line 5: One word
Dinosaurs
Lived once
Long ago, but
Only dust and dreams
Remain
Cinquain….
 Cinquain Poetry with five lines.
 It comes in 3 varieties:
 Example 3 (by Cindy Barden):
 Line1: Two syllables
 Line2: Four syllables
 Line 3: Six syllables
 Line 4: Eight syllables
 Line 5: Two syllables
Baseball
Bat cracks against
the pitch, sending it out
Over the fence, I did it yay!
Home Run.
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