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What is poetry?

What is poetry?. What is a poem?. Words in a book? Words that rhyme? Words that have rhythm? Sounds and sights? A word picture?. Robert Frost. “ A poem is what is left at the bottom of the kettle after all the water has boiled out. “. Archibald MacLeish. “A poem is . . .

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What is poetry?

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  1. What is poetry?

  2. What is a poem? • Words in a book? • Words that rhyme? • Words that have rhythm? • Sounds and sights? • A word picture?

  3. Robert Frost “ A poem is what is left at the bottom of the kettle after all the water has boiled out. “

  4. Archibald MacLeish “A poem is . . . a wordless flight of birds.”

  5. Is this a poem?

  6. Is this a poem?Ice Cream.It melted.- Kenneth Hatcher

  7. Is this a poem? so much depends upon a red wheel barrow glazed with rain Water beside the white chickens. - William Carlos Williams

  8. Homework:1. Take your book home or re-read “The Red Wheelbarrow” online.2. Write three reasons why you think “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem.3. Reasons do not count are as follows:It’s in a book. The poet said it was a poem. I don’t know.

  9. Ice Cream.It melted.- Kenneth Hatcher

  10. Ice Cream.It melted.- Kenneth Hatcher

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