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Why do we study poetry?
Why do we study poetry?
What will your verse be?
What will your verse be?
See things differently.
See things differently.
Introduction to Poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry” from The Apple that Astonished Paris. Copyright � 1988, 1996 by Billy Collins. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Arkansas Press.
Source: The Apple that Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996)
Poetry Examples for Analysis
Poetry Examples for Analysis
Road Not Taken POEM
Road Not Taken VIDEO
Road Not Taken QUESTIONS
TedED Spider Poem (POV)
TYPES OF POETRY
TYPES OF POETRY
NARRATIVE
NARRATIVE
Tells a story:
Tells a story:
Captain Kidd
Captain Kidd
-by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet
This person in the gaudy clothes
Is worthy Captain Kidd.
They say he never buried gold,
I think, perhaps, he did.
They say it's all a story that
His favorite little song,
Was "Make these lubbers walk the plank!"
I think, perhaps, they're wrong.
They say he never pirated
Beneath the Skull and Bones.
He merely traveled for his health
And spoke in soothing tones.
In fact, you'll read in nearly all
The newer history books
That he was mild as cottage cheese
-But I don't like his looks.
FREE VERSE
FREE VERSE
No rules! Just Write!!
The Dream Keeper
The Dream Keeper
Bring me all of your dreams,
You dreamers,
Bring me all of your
Heart melodies
That I may wrap them
In a blue cloud- cloth
Away from the too-rough fingers
Of the world.
-Langston Hughes
CONCRETE
CONCRETE
The words take the shape of the subject of the poem:
The words take the shape of the subject of the poem:
LIMERICK
LIMERICK
CINQUAIN
CINQUAIN
A cinquain is a poem with five lines that follows ONE of the following patterns:
WORD PATTERN
Line 1 = one word
subject and title of poem
Line 2 = two words
Line 3 = three words
Line 4 = four words that relate feelings
Line 5 = One word that repeats or refers to line 1 (subject)
Dinosaurs
Lived once,
Long ago, but
Only dust and dreams
Remain
PARTS OF SPEECH PATTERN
Line 1 = 1 word NOUN (subject and title of poem)
Line 2 = two ADJECTIVES
Line 3 = three VERBS
Line 4 = four word sentence
Line 5 = 1 word NOUN (synonym to first word)
Spaghetti
Messy, spicy
Slurping, sliding, falling
Between plate and mouth
Delicious
SYLLABLE PATTERN
Line 1 = 2 syllables
Line 2 = 4 syllables
Line 3 = 6 syllables
Line 4 = 8 syllables
Line 5 = 2 syllables
Baseball
Bat cracks against
The pitch, sending it out
Over the back fence, I did it!
Homerun
-Cindy Barden
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