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Think-pair-share : What is poetry?

Think-pair-share : What is poetry?. Youtube comment on poetry. Poetry is the art of making words dance through the imagination. Poetry shows you how to fight without physical weapons. . Poems can look like this…. THERE ONCE WAS A FARMER FROM LEEDS WHO SWALLOWED A PACKET OF SEEDS

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Think-pair-share : What is poetry?

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  1. Think-pair-share: What is poetry?

  2. Youtube comment on poetry • Poetry is the art of making words dance through the imagination. Poetry shows you how to fight without physical weapons.

  3. Poems can look like this… THERE ONCE WAS A FARMER FROM LEEDS WHO SWALLOWED A PACKET OF SEEDS IT SOON CAME TO PASS HE WAS COVERED WITH GRASS BUT HAS ALL THE TOMATOES HE NEEDS

  4. Or this… Haiku Birds singing in the dark —Rainy dawn. Jack Kerouac

  5. Or this The waves are like     white fringed layers     of green carpet, unfolding. The small focus I have of them     from my constricted     viewpoint is impressed     on my imagining, roll-on mind-film,     forever! Their continuity of ebb, of flow,     lugging in sacks full of pipi, kutai,tuangi, kina, tio & karahu – to mention     just a small line-up of the     succulent bounties of the sea     that are life-giving – gives me pause     as well as time, for a prayer     of thanks to you, Tangaroa. From Hone Tuwhare’sSea Call

  6. Song Lyrics: a genre of poetry Definition: Poems written to be sung and often accompanied by musical instruments. • An ancient form of poetry- dates back thousands of years. Many early poems were song lyrics. Important features • Rhythm • Rhyme • Repetition – chorus or refrain

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