Slide Show

Elements of Poetry Graphic Organizer

QUIZ on all Poetry Elements from the Slide Show

and our discussions in class on Wednesday 3/23

Art Poem writing:

1- Using your art picture- create a Google Doc that includes your picture. You can either download a copy from an online source or take picture of it from the book with your phone and download it into your drive. It must be IN YOUR DOCUMENT to work. You can write your poem beneath it.

2- Write a 4 stanza poem (quatrains or quintets only) based on your art picture. Your 4 stanzas cannot include the repeat of a refrain.

3- You must use at least 5 poetic elements in your poem (stanza, poem style, refrain, quatrains/quintets CANNOT be counted as part of your five elements).

4- Best elements to use: metaphor, simile, personification, allusion, rhyme scheme, repetition, symbolism, and/or alliteration.

Mr. Beaudrie's poem: Room in New York, 1932

Avalanche by Jim Warren

“I Am” Poetry

Below are line-by-line instructions for writing this kind of poem:

Line #1: I AM

Line #2: Three nouns about which you have strong feelings. Begin each noun with a capital letter.

Line #3: A complete sentence about two things you care about or you like.

Line #4: Three nouns that describe what you like to see in other people: end with the phrase “are important to

me.” Capitalize each noun.

Line #5: A sentence containing a positive thought or feeling. It can tell what you find acceptable in yourself.

Line #6 & 7: A sentence in which you state something that is negative, but then the sentence ends by showing that

out of something BAD can come GOOD. Use the word “but” to link the bad and good.

Lines #8, 9 & 10: Each line is a short sentence relating to something about which you have strong feelings (likes or

dislikes). They do not have to relate to each other or the previous lines you’ve written.

Line #11: End with either the phrase “This is” and your name or “I am” and your name.

Example:

I am

Writer, Teacher, Mother

I love my Dakzilla and my Chief

Dependability, integrity, and creativity are important to me

I try to treat everyone without bias and with aloha

Being determined and eager to succeed can be seen as arrogance

But without either there would be nothing for my ‘ohana

I often worry about my son and if I can provide

Enough knowledge and information about his kuleana

So that he can be the ikaika kane I see within him

I am Wendie Burbridge

"Fear" by Sophie Rodas

TONE: The tone of a poem is the attitude you feel in it — the writer's attitude toward the subject or audience. The 'tone' in poetry is best viewed in the same sense as character in song lyrics.

EXAMPLE:

Robert Frost in the last stanza of his poem "The Road Not Taken" gives us an insight into the effect of tone:

“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.”

Frost tells us about his past with a “sigh”, this gives the above lines an unhappy tone. This tone leads us into thinking that the speaker in the poem had to make a difficult choice.

VOICE: also known as the speaker, mask, or persona; refers to the voice that speaks a poem; this speaker is not usually identical to the author who writes the poem--The author assumes a role, or counterfeits the speech of a person in a particular situation.

EXAMPLE:

"Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes.

He uses an imaginary voice instead of his own voice to create the voice of a weary mother. This poem could be used to teach the invisible voice. The speaker in the poem, a weary mother, is talking to her son about the hardships in her life.

Well son, I'll tell you:

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair,

It's had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor

Bare.

But all the time

I'se been a-climbin' on,

And reachin' landin's,

And turnin' corners,

And sometimes goin' in the dark

Where there ain't been no light,

So boy, don't you turn back.

Don't you set down on the steps

'Cause you finds it's kinder hard,

Don't you fall now,

For I'se still goin' honey,

I'se still climbin',

And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.