Tuesday, November 21

1. Tuesday, November 21 Journal Entry: “There’s not enough poetry in our lives. I believe we need to add a poem a day to help us expand our sense of self.” Do you agree or disagree? Why would poetry help us “expand our sense of self” by reading it daily? Explain.

2. Today’s Agenda • Ask for volunteers to read their acrostic poems • Collect poems and alliterations • Figurative language • Free Verse • Poem for the day

3. Onomatopoeia • Onomatopoeia is defined as the use of a word to indicate a sound. Examples: splash, bong, splat, crash… • Old “Batman” TV show illustrated this by putting bubbles up with these words inside. • Cartoons, some poetry, and comic strips today.

4. The rusty spigotSputters,Utters,a splutter, spatters a smattering of drops, gashes wider;splatters,scatters,spurts,finally stops sputteringand plash!Gushes rushes splashesClear water dashes.By Eve Merriam

5. The formation or use of the words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions to which they refer. • Now, you try this method of imagery. • Write five sentences using onomatopoeias…..

6. Personification • Personification is giving an inanimate object humanlike qualities, feelings, actions, or characteristics… • Again, look at cartoons, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, etc • “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth • “People Zoo” by Shel Silverstein

7. Daffodils • William Wordsworth • I wander’d lonely as a cloud • That floats on high o’er vales and hills, • When all at once I saw a crowd, • A host, of golden daffodils; • Besides the lake, beneath the trees, • Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. • Continuous as the stars that shine • And twinkle on the Milky Way, • They stretch’d in never-ending line • Along the margin of a bay; • Ten thousand saw I at a glance, • Tossing their heads in sprightely dance.

8. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but be gay, In such a jocund company; I gazed – and gazed – but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure tilts, And dances with the daffodils.

9. People ZooShel Silverstein I got grabbed by the elk and the caribou. They tied me up with a vine lasso Ands whisked me away to Animaloo, Where they locked me up in the People Zoo. Now I’m here in a cage that is small as can be (You can’t let wild people just run around free), And I’m fed bread and tea at a quarter to three, And the animals all come and gander at me.

10. They point and they giggle and sometimes they spit, (There’s bars on my cage, so they can’t poke or hit), And they scream, “Do a trick,” but I stubbornly sit, And doin’ nothin’… but thinkin’ a bit. So if you come visit, just howl, honk, or moo And try to pretend you’re and animal, too, ‘Cause if you’re a person, they’ll throw you into Cage Two of the zoo here Animaloo.

11. Imagery • Imagery involves one or more of your five senses (hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, and seeing). • The poet will give a word or phrase that stimulates your memory of the sense... • “The Worker” by Richard W. Thomas

12. “The Worker”by Richard W. Thomas My father lies black and hushed Beneath white hospital sheets He collapsed at work His iron left him Slow and quiet he sank. Meeting the wet concrete floor on his way The wheels were still turning - - they couldn’t stop Red and yellow lights flashing Gloved hands twisting knobs- - they couldn’t stop And as they carried him out The Whirring and buzzing and humming machines Applauded him Lapping up his dripping iron They couldn’t stop

13. Free Verse • Free verse is a fluid form which conforms to no set rules or traditional versification. This refers to the freedom from fixed patterns of meter and rhyme • Rhyme is the occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end, or two or more words in the poem

14. “In a Station of the Metro”by Ezra PoundThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.(Example of free verse)

15. From “To a Skylark”by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bind thou never went, That from heave, or near it, Pourest they full heart In profane strains of unpremeditated art. Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.

16. Next class…. • You will need to write an 8 -10 line poem on an interest of yours. This can be a hobby, sport, spare time activity, or something that tells about you. • You must use some type of figurative language…similes, metaphors, imagery, personification, or onomatopoeia. • You can either write this in free verse or in a rhyming method. • Also……

17. Again, a figurative language interest poem, and maybe a picture to go with this poem. • We will work on this poem now with any time left plus next time to complete this project over Thanksgiving. • Closing poem: “Buffalo Dusk”, by Carl Sandburg.

18. “Buffalo Dusk”by Carl SandburgThe buffaloes are gone.And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.Those who saw the buffaloes by thousands and how theypawed the prairie sod into dust with their hoofs,their great heads down pawing on in a great pageant of dusk,Those who saw the buffaloes are gone.And the buffaloes are gone.