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A short piece of imaginative writing, of a personal
nature and laid out in lines
What is poetry?
 Poetry is artistically
rendering words in such
a way as to evoke intense
emotion or an Ah Ha!
experience from the
reader.
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
 Intense emotion
 Surprise
 Revelation
Famous Poets say
Poetry is…
 “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”
~William Wordsworth
 “If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire
ever can warm me, I know that is poetry”
~Emily Dickinson
 “Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what
makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do
this or that or nothing.”~Dylan Thomas
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
Poetry is…
 Imaginative
 Can employ meter & rhyme
 Ancient form
 Individual mode of expression
 Almost impossible to define!
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
Characteristics
 Carefully selected words
 Emotive qualities
 Musical value
 Spacing
Poetic Terms
 Poet - is one who writes
poetry.
 Poem - is a written expression
of emotion or ideas in an
arrangement of words/verse
most often rhythmically.
 Bard - a poet.
 Muse - a channel of
inspiration for a poet.
http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/intro.html
Poetic Terms
 Alliteration
Repetition of the initial sounds
of stressed syllables in neighboring words
 Antonym
Words that are opposite in meaning
 Form
Arrangement, manner or method
used to convey the content
Poetic Terms
 Homonym
Two or more distinct words with the same pronunciation
and spelling but with different meanings
 Homophone
Two or more words with the same pronunciation but
with different meanings and spellings
 Hyperbole
Exaggeration of the truth
Poetic Terms
 Imagery
Figurative language used to create particular mental
images
 Metaphor
Association of two completely different objects as being
the same thing
 Meter
Used to measure poetry, unit used is the metric “foot,”
determined by a series of stressed and unstressed
syllables, number of feet determines the meter
Poetic Terms
 Onomatopoeia
Use of words with sounds suggestive of their meaning, like buzz,
clang, whoosh
 Pause
Intervals between syllables of verse
 Simile
Comparison of two completely different objects using “like” or “as”
 Stress
Special emphasis on a word, syllable, or phrase with a line of verse
Poetic Terms
 Synonym
One or two or more words that have the same or nearly the same meaning
 Triplet
Unit or group of three lines of verse which are rhymed together
 Wordsmith
Person who works with words; a skillful writer
Misconceptions
 Poetry must rhyme
 Poetry must have shape
 Poetry must have rhythm
 Poetry must have a lot of words
 Poetry must be beautiful
Examples of Poetry
Emma
 Acrostic
Poem
The first letters of
each line form a
word or
message
relating to the
subject.
Eager to learn
Makes time to read
Marvelous artist
Adores her white poodle
~Paul B Janeczko
Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry by Paul B. Janeczko
Cinquain
 A five-line
stanza of
syllabic
verse, the
successive
lines
containing
two, four, six,
eight and
two syllables.
Oh, cat
Are you grinning
Curled in the window seat
As sun warms you this December
Morning?
~Paul B Janeczko
Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry by Paul B. Janeczko
Couplet
 Two
successive
lines of
poetry with
end-words
that rhyme.
Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village though
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake
~Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Free Verse
 Written
without proper
rules.
 The writer
makes his/her
own rules.
 The writer
decides how
the poem
should look,
feel, and
sound.
Winter Poem
once a snowflake fell
on my brow and i loved
it so much and i kissed
it and it was happy and called its cousins
and brothers and a web
of snow engulfed me then
i reached to love them all
and i squeezed them and they became
a spring rain and i stood perfectly
still and was a flower
~Nikki Giovanni
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/free%20verse.htm
Haiku
 A Japanese
form of
poetry.
 Gives a brief
description of
nature.
 Consists of
three
unrhymed
lines of five,
seven and
five syllables.
A Rainbow
Curving up, then down.
Meeting blue sky and green earth
Melding sun and rain.
~ Donna Brock
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/poemhaiku.htm
Limerick
 Light or
humorous
verse form of
five lines
 Lines one, two
and five are of
three feet.
 Lines three
and four are of
two feet.
 Rhyme scheme
of aabba.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were caught, so what could they do?
Said the fly, "Let us flee.“
"Let us fly," said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
-Anonymous
Click Here for more Limericks!
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/poemlimerick.htm
Nursery Rhyme
 Short poem
for children
 Written in
Humpty Dumpty
rhyming
verse
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,
 Handed
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
down in
All the King's horses, And all the King's men
folklore
Couldn't put Humpty together again!
http://www.rhymes.org.uk/humpty_dumpty.htm
Bio Poems
 A Biopoem is a
poem that
describes a
person in 11
lines. There is a
specific
formula to use
when writing a
bio poem.
Teresa Nelson
Teresa
Mother, Artist, Grandmother, Teacher
Sister of Cindy and Jill
Lover of animals, music, and football
Who feels pain, love, and excitement
Who gives tickles, hugs, and advice
Who fears failure, deep water, and war
Would like to see Paris, Venice, and Barcelona
Resident of Denton, Texas
Nelson
Click here for the Bio Poem Worksheet
Bio Poem Worksheet
 (First name) (Four adjectives that describe the person)
 Son or Daughter of (your parents names)
 Lover of (three different things that the person loves)
 Who feels (three different feelings and when or where they
are felt)
 Who gives (three different things the person gives)
 Who fears (three different fears the person has)
 Who would like to see (three different things the person
would like to see)
 Who lives (a brief description of where the person lives)
 -(last name)
http://cuip.uchicago.edu/~adarice/cwsite/poems/poembio.htm
What is Poetry?
 If you really want to
know what poetry is,
read it.
 Read it carefully.
 Pay attention.
 Read it out loud.
 Now read it again.
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm
Poetry is…
 the chiseled marble of language; it's a paint-spattered
canvas - but the poet uses words instead of paint, and
the canvas is you.
http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/poetry/a/poetry.htm