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Senior Lit Poetry Time!

Senior Lit Poetry Time!. What are your ideas and assumptions about poetry? What are your favorite poems? How can you come to appreciate the intellectual and emotional rewards of reading and writing poetry? . Questions to ask before we begin.

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Senior Lit Poetry Time!

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  1. Senior Lit Poetry Time!

  2. What are your ideas and assumptions about poetry? What are your favorite poems? How can you come to appreciate the intellectual and emotional rewards of reading and writing poetry? Questions to ask before we begin

  3. You may need to unlearnthe idea that poetry is difficult to interpret or only has one interpretation. My goal is for you to start to understand, value and appreciate poetry. I want to engage you with the real essence of poetry, the power of words and language and the infinite ways that poets of all ages and cultures have exploited and stretched the genre.

  4. What did I like about the poem? • How did the poem make me feel? • Which words or phrases did I like? • What words or phrases need clarification? • What surprised me? • What do I think the poem is about? • What might this poem be saying? Questions to ask after reading a poem

  5. Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.There is no happiness like mine.I have been eating poetry.The librarian does not believe what she sees.Her eyes are sadand she walks with her hands in her dress.The poems are gone.The light is dim.The dogs are on the basement stairs and coming up.Their eyeballs roll,their blond legs burn like brush.The poor librarian begins to stamp her feet and weep.She does not understand.When I get on my knees and lick her hand,she screams.I am a new man,I snarl at her and bark,I romp with joy in the bookish dark. “Eating Poetry” by Mark Strand

  6. What I Read What I ThinkWhat I Wonder ex. The poet ex. I don’t think ex. I wonder what has eaten poems he has really would make a “eaten” them librarian upset “Eating Poetry”

  7. Skim all five poems and choose one to read in your group • Read the poem • Mark the poem * This word or line is cool ! This seems like something important ? I don’t get it: I don’t understand this line or phrase Talk about the poem with your group Poetry Splash

  8. What does the term “free verse” mean in poetry? It is a style of poetry written without using strict rules, structure or rhyme. How do we make meaning of poems?

  9. Who is speaking in the poem? • What do you think this poem is about? • What is the speaker worried about? • Why does the poet repeat “and momma’s in the bedroom with the door closed”? • What specifically in the poem reveals the speaker’s character/emotion/fears? • Do you ever feel like the writer of this poem? “Hanging Fire” by AudreLorde

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