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Page 1: Become a poet

Become a PoetAnd earn more credit for it!

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First, let’s look at what poetry is . . .

๏ Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.  ~Robert Frost

Quote taken from: http://www.quotegarden.com/poetry.html

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How is poetry different from prose?

Poetry

Tries to communicate an emotion, an experience, or an idea in as few words as possible.

Focuses on choosing the right words (and avoiding using unnecessary words).

Pays special attention to breaking up thoughts into lines and stanzas.

Uses poetic techniques to create rhythm and flow (rhyming, imagery, syllable count, line length, similes, metaphors, alliteration).

Prose (or writing)

Tries to communicate information, ideas, or stories in detailed, supported, paragraph-writing.

Focuses on using a lot of words to describe your topic.

Has sentences that are arranged in paragraphs, sections, or pages.

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See the differences?

The Woman on the Peak

         The woman stands upon the barren peak,

         Gazing down on the world beneath.

         The lonely chill seeps from the ground

         Into her feet, spreading, upward bound.

         The angry wind whistles ‘round her head,

         Whipping her hair into streaming snakes,

         While she watches, wishes, weakly wails.

         Beyond the mountain, sunshine peeks,

         Teasing flowers to survive and thrive.

         The breeze whispers through the leaves,

         Causing gentle quivers to sway the trees.

         Laughter gurgles as the splashing brook

         Playfully tumbles over rugged rocks,

         While the woman above can only grieve.

Notice how this poem describes the setting and situation using figurative language, a careful choice of words, and a lot of imagery.

         A woman stands on a mountain top with the cold seeping into her body. There is nothing around her on the mountain top; it’ bare and unwelcoming. She looks on the valley below as the wind whips around her. It’s a strong wind. She wants to go somewhere warmer, but she is unable to go to the peaceful beauty below.         In the valley, the sun shines from behind the clouds causing flowers to bloom. It seems like a much a happier place than the mountain top. A breeze sends quivers through the leaves of trees, but it’s softer than the mountain wind. The water gurgles in a brook. The woman looks at this beautiful valley and all of the nature inside of it, but all the woman can do is cry.

Notice how this prose still uses beautiful language, but the wording is more direct and less figurative. The prose gives more explanation and less feeling.

Simile

Imagery

Two stanzas

Intentional line breaks

Personification

Sentences arranged in two paragraphs

Poem Prose

*Content adapted from Writing.com

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Question: Why

would the way you write something matter? In other

words, how do the differences between poetry and prose

affect the meaning that comes across in the writing?

Use specifics from the last few slides.

Your Answer:

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Next, let’s see how poets write poetry. . .

Poets include figurative language to make their poetry more powerful.

Figurative language includes: Metaphor, Simile, Symbolism, Personification, Allegory, Irony, Imagery.

Poets also use rhyme, rhythm, and line length to make a point.

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Metaphor

Metaphor - compares two things that wouldn’t usually be seen as similar to make a point (does not use “like” or “as”).

Example: All the world's a stage,And all the men and women

merely players.- William Shakespeare

The world is compared to a stage.

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Metaphor PoemTranquilityTime slides

a gentle ocean

waves upon waves,

washing the shore,

loving the shore.

- by Star Fields

What is the metaphor in this poem (what’s being compared)?

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Write your own metaphor

Write your own metaphor. To what could you compare your life or yourself?

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SymbolismUsing something to represent an idea in poetry (or other speaking/writing) is symbolism.

Examples:

A cross represents Christianity.

Green represents environmentally friendly products.

A heart represents love.

A storm represents trouble.

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Symbolism in Poetry

“One Perfect Rose” by Dorothy Parker

A single flow'r he sent me, since we met.

All tenderly his messenger he chose;

Deep-hearted, pure, with scented dew still wet

One perfect rose.

What does the rose symbolize (stand for) in this poem?

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Create Your Own Symbol

What THING might symbolize your feelings or ideas?

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Personification

Giving human traits to something that is not human.

Example: The wind yelled through the cracks in the window pane.

Yelling is a human action, but the wind is not alive.

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Personification in a Poem

Anger

Anger sits cracking his whip against the wallhis red face swollen with blood.He is being eaten up from the insideand festers alone in the darkness.

His clothes are all torn and his face is all cracked.He is a volcano ready to explodewith eyes like huge, dark smouldering hollows, just waiting to erupt.He is bent over and furiouswith himself and the world.

• What does the author do make anger seem like it’s alive? Explain at least three.

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Your Example of Personification

Look around you and choose an object. Describe it in a way that makes it “come alive.”

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Imagery

Descriptions that focus on helping the reader, see, smell, taste, hear, or feel what is going on in the writing.

Example: The sparkling crystal vase shattered to the floor and scattered in a million skin-shredding shards of glass.

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Imagery in PoetryThe Way I Play Soccer

Sweat streams down my face,And my skin turns red under the watchful eye of the sun.The sound of cleats pounding the earth is deafening As my enemies charge down the field towards me.I can sense the shooter is going to miss;All at once, the ball collides into my chest.Screams of victory roar across the field.The grass stained, game ball restsRests lovingly between my two hands.

Poetry by Natasha Niemi

•What sights, sounds, smells, feelings, or tastes do you find in this excerpt?

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Your Example of Imagery

Your Example: Describe the room, yard, building, or area around you in such a way that people will feel, hear, see, smell, or taste it.

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Rhyme

When a word agrees or sounds like another in the last sound of the word.

Examples: Arrange =

Exchange, Rose= Clothes, Line Example:I can feel your love Like the sun from above

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Rhyme in PoetryBear In There by Shel Silverstein

There's a Polar Bear

In our Frigidaire--

He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.

With his seat in the meat

And his face in the fish

And his big hairy paws

In the buttery dish,

He's nibbling the noodles,

He's munching the rice,

He's slurping the soda,

He's licking the ice.

And he lets out a roar

If you open the door.

And it gives me a scare

To know he's in there--

That Polary Bear

In our Fridgitydaire.

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Come up with end rhyme of your own

How could you rhyme this line:

“If I could have you in an embrace”

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Now write your own!Use at least three poetic techniques and write a brief poem of your own.

This site will help you come up with a topic for

your poem.Use these techniques: Metaphor, Simile, Symbolism, Personification, Allegory, Irony, Imagery, Rhyme, Rhythm, Line Length, Alliteration, Illusion, etc.

Write your poem on the next slide.

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Your Poem

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Explain your technique

Explain the three (or more) poetic techniques you used in your poem.

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Congrats!

You’re a Poet!

Send your finished project to your mentor.