Poetry

1. Poetry

2. All poetry styles • Every poem, except perhaps the diamante, must contain some poetic techniques and figurative writing. (Metaphors, similes, rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, symbolism, imagery, personification…)

3. Ode • Praises something. • Give god-like importance to something relatively mundane. • It does not have to rhyme, but it’s cute if it does. • Again, aim for approximately 20 lines (half a page - 1 column.)

4. Ode To Physics By: Megan D., Westford, Oh, how much I love this class,I only hope that I will pass.For this class I can't stop yearning,Because it's Physics I love learning.At seven twenty-five Physics is scheduled to begin,To my face then creeps a big grin.I would never consider coming in late,For to miss even a second I would hate.So, when class starts at seven twenty-five,It feels so good to be alive.Those forty-five minute I love so much,For they are filled with vectors and such.At the end of class, at the sound of the bell,I must leave this heaven and enter a hell.Because the rest of the day just cannot compare,

5. And I am left with a feeling of total despair.(Unless of course I have lab,Then my day isn't as drab.)The rest of my day crawls slowly on,In the rest of my classes I can't help but yawn.At the end of the day, twenty till two,I rush to my home to see what problems I can do.(My afternoon is really great,When my teacher assigns more than eight.)When bedtime finally rolls around,I pray that in my dreams will be found,Lots of cars with constant velocities,And other such atrocities.

6. Limerick • Nonsensical – silly topics. • Follows a particular rhyme scheme and has a distinctive rhythm. • Long A • Long A • Short B • Short B • Long A

7. Limerick examples • There was a small boy of QuebecWho was buried in snow to his neckWhen they said, “Are you friz?”He replied, ” Yes, I is —But we don’t call this cold in Quebec” By Rudyard Kipling

8. Limerick examples A minor league pitcher, McDowell Pitched an egg at a batter named Owl. They cried “Get a hit!” But it hatched in the mitt And the umpire called it a fowl.

9. Lyric • A lyric poem must be descriptive (not narrative) • It appeals to your senses (5 senses) • Contains strong emotion

10. "maggie and milly and molly and may" by E.E. Cumming maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and milly befriend a stranded star whose rays five languid fingers were; and molly was chased by a horrible thing which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea

11. Haiku • Specific syllabic structure • Must capture a moment in time • Deals with nature (setting) 5 7 5 Cherry, apple, rose,blossoms in countless colours--each one of them pink.   Paul Brown The Rose The red blossom bends  and drips its dew to the ground.  Like a tear it falls Donna Brock

12. Diamante • See handout

13. Concrete poetry • Must take on a shape.