Teaching Poetry
Teaching Poetry
Teaching Poetry
Poetry
2nd Semester
Poetry
What is poetry? Who knows?
Not a rose, but the scent of a rose;
Not the sky, but the light in the sky;
Not the fly, but the gleam of the fly;
Not the sea, but the sound of the sea;
Not myself, but what makes me
See, hear, and feel something that prose
Cannot: and what it is, who knows?
By Eleanor Farjeon
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Poetry Elements
Writers use many elements to create their
poems. These elements include:
Rhythm
Sound
Imagery
Form
Rhythm
Rhythm Example
The Pickety Fence by David McCord
The pickety fence
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
The pickety fence
Give it a lick it's
A clickety fence
Give it a lick it's a lickety fence
Give it a lick
Give it a lick
Give it a lick
With a rickety stick
pickety
pickety
pickety
pick.
Rhythm Example
Where Are You Now?
When the night begins to fall
And the sky begins to glow
You look up and see the tall
City of lights begin to grow
In rows and little golden squares
The lights come out. First here, then there
Behind the windowpanes as though
A million billion bees had built
Their golden hives and honeycombs
Above you in the air.
Sound
Writers love to use interesting sounds in
their poems. After all, poems are meant
to be heard. These sound devices include:
Rhyme
Repetition
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme
Rhyming Patterns
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Repetition
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Repetition Example
The Sun
Some one tossed a pancake,
A buttery, buttery, pancake.
Someone tossed a pancake
And flipped it up so high,
That now I see the pancake,
The buttery, buttery pancake,
Now I see that pancake
Stuck against the sky.
by Sandra Liatsos
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Alliteration
Alliteration is the
repetition of the first
consonant sound in
words, as in the
nursery rhyme Peter
Piper picked a peck
of pickled peppers.
(See next slide for
example.)
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Alliteration Example
This Tooth
I jiggled it
jaggled it
jerked it.
I pushed
and pulled
and poked it.
But
As soon as I stopped,
And left it alone
This tooth came out
On its very own!
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
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Onomatopoeia
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Onomatopoeia Example
Listen
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
Frozen snow and brittle ice
Make a winter sound thats nice
Underneath my stamping feet
And the cars along the street.
Scrunch, scrunch, scrunch.
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
by Margaret Hillert
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Imagery
Five Senses
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Figures of Speech
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Simile
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Simile Example
Flint
An emerald is as green as grass,
A ruby red as blood;
A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;
A flint lies in the mud.
A diamond is a brilliant stone,
To catch the worlds desire;
An opal holds a fiery spark;
But a flint holds fire.
By Christina Rosetti
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Metaphor
A metaphor compares
two things without using
the words like or as.
Gives the qualities of one
thing to something that is
quite different.
(See next slide for
example.)
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Metaphor Example
The Night is a Big Black Cat
The Night is a big black cat
The moon is her topaz eye,
The stars are the mice she hunts at night,
In the field of the sultry sky.
By G. Orr Clark
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Personification
Personification gives
human traits and
feelings to things that
are not human like
animals or objects.
(See next slide for
example.)
The moon smiled down at
me.
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Personification Example
From Mister Sun
Mister Sun
Wakes up at dawn,
Puts his golden
Slippers on,
Climbs the summer
Sky at noon,
Trading places
With the moon.
by J. Patrick Lewis
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Forms of Poetry
There are many forms of poetry including the:
Couplet
Tercet
Acrostic
Cinquain
Haiku
Senryu
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
Limerick
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March
A blue day
A blue jay
And a good beginning.
One crow,
Melting snow
Springs winning!
By Eleanor Farjeon
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Couplet
A couplet is a poem,
or stanza in a poem,
written in two lines.
Usually rhymes.
The Jellyfish
Who wants my jellyfish?
Im not sellyfish!
By Ogden Nash
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Tercet
A tercet is a poem, or
stanza, written in three
lines.
Usually rhymes.
Lines 1 and 2 can
rhyme; lines 1 and 3 can
rhyme; sometimes all 3
lines rhyme.
Winter Moon
Quatrain
A quatrain is a poem, or
stanza, written in four
lines.
The quatrain is the most
common form of stanza
used in poetry.
Usually rhymes.
Can be written in variety
of rhyming patterns.
(See slide 9 entitled
Rhyming Patterns.)
The Lizard
The lizard is a timid thing
That cannot dance or fly or sing;
He hunts for bugs beneath the floor
And longs to be a dinosaur.
By John Gardner
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Traditional Cinquain
A cinquain is a poem
written in five lines that
do not rhyme.
Traditional cinquain has
five lines containing 22
syllables in the following
pattern:
Line 1 2 syllables
Line 2 4 syllables
Line 3 6 syllables
Line 4 8 syllables
Line 5 2 syllables
Oh, cat
are you grinning
curled in the window seat
as sun warms you this December
morning?
By Paul B. Janezco
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Word-Count Cinquain
Owl
Swift, ferocious
Watches for food
Soaring through the night
Hunter
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Diamante
Diamante Pattern
Line 1 Your topic (noun)
Line 2 Two adjectives about
Line 3 Three ing words about
Line 4 Four nouns or short
phrase linking topic (or topics)
Line 5 Three ing words about
Line 5 Two adjectives about
Line 7 Your ending topic (noun)
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Synonym Diamante
Monsters
Creepy, sinister,
Hiding, lurking, stalking,
Vampires, mummies, werewolves and more
Chasing, pouncing eating,
Hungry, scary,
Creatures
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Antonym Diamante
Day
Bright, sunny,
Laughing, playing, doing,
Up in the east, down in the west
Talking, resting, sleeping,
Quiet, dark,
Night
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Haiku
A haiku is a Japanese
poem with 3 lines of 5, 7,
and 5 syllables. (Total of
17 syllables.)
Does not rhyme.
Is about an aspect of
nature or the seasons.
Captures a moment in
time.
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Senryu
Concrete Poem
Free Verse
Revenge
When I find out
who took
the last cooky
out of the jar
and left
me a bunch of
stale old messy
crumbs, I'm
going to take
me a handful
and crumb
up someone's bed.
By Myra Cohn Livingston
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Acrostic
In an acrostic poem
the first letter of each
line, read down the
page, spells the
subject of the poem.
Type of free verse
poem.
Does not usually
rhyme.
Limerick
A limerick is a funny
poem of 5 lines.
Lines 1, 2 & 5 rhyme.
Lines 3 & 4 are
shorter and rhyme.
Line 5 refers to line 1.
Limericks are a kind
of nonsense poem.
Nonsense Poems
A nonsense poem is a
humorous poem with
silly characters and
actions. It is meant to
be fun.
Can be written as a
limerick or as another
form of poetry.
A Princess Laments
I kissed a frog because Id heard
That it would turn into a prince.
Thats not exactly what occurred,
And Ive been croaking ever since.
by Jack Prelutsky
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Word Play
The Walrus
The pounding spatter
Of salty sea
Makes the walrus
Walrusty.
By Douglas Florian
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Voice
Hello!
Hi!
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by Christina Rosetti
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by Marilyn Singer
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By Beverly McLoughland
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Mines as scaly
as a fish.
Mine is sort of
yellowish.
Mine breathes fire
and smoke and such.
Mine has skin
youd hate to touch.
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Authors Purpose
The poet has an authors purpose when he writes a poem.
The purpose can be to:
Share feelings (joy, sadness, anger, fear, loneliness)
Tell a story
Send a message (theme - something to think about)
Be humorous
Provide description* (e.g., person, object, concept)
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By Shel Silverstein
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Mood
Mood - Poem
Poem
I loved my friend.
He went away from me.
Theres nothing more to say.
The poem ends,
Soft as it began
I loved my friend:
By Langston Hughes
Mood - Joyful
Joyful
A summer day is full of ease,
a bank is full of money,
our lilac bush is full of bees,
And I am full of honey.
By Rose Burgunder
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Mood - Foghorns
Foghorns
The foghorns moaned
in the bay last night
so sad
so deep
I thought I heard the city
crying in its sleep.
By Lilian Moore
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Acknowledgements
Books:
Cobwebs, Chatters, and Chills: A Collection of Scary Poems. Compiled and
annotated by Patricia M. Stockland. Minneapolis, MS: Compass Point Books, 2004.
Dirty Laundry Pile: Poems in Different Voices. Selected by Paul B. Janeczko. New
York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Easy Poetry Lessons that Dazzle and Delight. Harrison, David L. NY: Scholastic
Professional Books, 1999.
Favorite Poems: Old and New. Selected by Helen Ferris. NY: Doubleday. 1957.
A Kick in the Head: An Everyday Guide to Poetic Forms. Selected by Paul B.
Janeczko. Boston, MA: Candlewick Press, 2005.
Knock at a Star: A Childs Introduction to Poetry. Kennedy, X. J. and Kennedy,
Dorothy M. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999.
Pass the Poetry, Please. Hopkins, Lee Benett. New York: Harper Collins, 1998.
Poem Making: Ways to Begin Writing Poetry. Livingston, Myra Cohn. New York:
Harper Collins,1991.
Poetry from A to Z. Janeczko, Paul B. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Poetry Place Anthology: More Than 600 Poems for All Occasions. NY: Scholastic
Professional Books, 1983.
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Acknowledgements
Books (Continued):
Random House Book of Poetry: A Treasury of 572 Poems for Todays Child.
Selected by Jack Prelutsky. NY: Random House, 1983.
Recess, Rhyme, and Reason: A Collection of Poems About School. Compiled and
annotated by Patricia M. Stockland. Minneapolis, MS: Compass Point Books, 2004.
Teaching 10 Fabulous Forms of Poetry: Great Lessons, Brainstorming Sheets, and
Organizers for Writing Haiku, Limericks, Cinquains, and Other Kinds of Poetry
Kids Love. Janeczko, Paul B. NY: Scholastic Professional Books, 2000.
Tomie DePaolas Book of Poems. Selected by Tomie DePaola. NY: G.P. Putnams
Sons, 1988.
The Twentieth Century Childrens Poetry Treasury. Selected by Jack Prelutsky. NY:
Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.
Weather: Poems. Selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins. NY: HarperCollins, 1994.
Writing Poetry with Children. Monterey, CA: Evan-Moor Corp., 1999.
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