some rules about poetry
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SOME RULES ABOUT POETRY
Poetry
IMAGES IN POETRY
The bear in the back room is wormyIts meat is all stinky and squirmySo I’m reading a bookAbout how to cookAnd anther about taxidermy
Appeal to the
Five senses
FIGURES OF SPEECH HELP CREATE
IMAGES IN POETRY
simile
metaphor
personification
onomatopoeia
Definition: Simile is when you compare two nouns (persons, places or things) that are unlike, with "like" or "as."
Simile
"The water is like the sun."
Good similes compare two very different nouns.
simile
“IT seems to me you’ve lived your lifeLike a candle in the wind!”
Elton John
similes
Sadness is as happy as laughter.You might cry because it hurts.
You might laugh because it hurts.But I know one thing,
laughter is laughter and sadnessis sadness.
They can show the same things like
hurting and gladness.By Rachel
SENSES
Hockey
Hockey is like reading You get into it and then you never
want to stopYou feel like you're in a different world.
Hockey is like school You have to do your work and
you have to practice or you will get an "F"Hockey is like math
You get stronger and before you know it You're getting an
"A"Your scoring goals
Now that'sHockey!
similes
PianoPlaying the piano is like
A bird soaring in theSky.
When you play the keys it is like
Flying your fingers across thePiano.
The notes are likeClouds drifting through the
sky.
PRACTICE POEMS
A Red, Red Rose
O My Luve's like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June;O My Luve's like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a' the seas gang dry, my dearWhile the sands o' life shall run.
And fare thee weel, my only luve,And fare thee weel, awhile!
And I will come again, my luveTho' it ware ten thousand mile!
Robert Burns1759-1796
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FlintAn 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 world's desire;An opal holds a fiery spark;But a flint holds a fire.
Christina Rossetti 1830-1894
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emerald ruby sapphire diamond opal
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metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar- in terms of the familiar (the vehicle).
"Love is a rose, " "rose" is the vehicle for "love.
Neil Young
Love is a rosebut you better not pick itIt only grows when it's on the vine.A handful of thorns andyou'll know you've missed itYou lose your lovewhen you say the word "mine".
Remember a direct comparison does not use like or as
FogThe fog comes On little cat feetIt sits lookingOver harbor and cityOn silent haunchesAnd then moves on
metaphor
CarlSandburgMore information
LIKE OR AS WAS NOT USED!
My brother is a big pig!
metaphor
metaphor
Barter
Life has loveliness to sell-All beautiful splendid things,Blue waves whiten on a cliff,Climbing fire that sways and sings,And children’s faces looking up,Holding wonder like a cup.
Sara Teasdale