The Poet Is an Artist Creating Images Creating Sounds We do You do

1. Painting with Words: The Elements of Poetry Feature Menu The Poet Is an Artist Creating Images Creating Sounds We do You do

2. The Poet Is an Artist Poets can make you see the world in new ways. 22 3 568 4+2 Arithmetic is where numbers fly like pigeons in and out of your head. Carl Sandburg

3. The Poet Is an Artist To understand what elements go into the making of a poem, think of the poet as an artist who is creating something with words. clouds like tufts of wool the rock’s grooved face . . . a carpet of red sand A poet uses words the way a painter uses paint. [End of Section]

4. ThemeCentral idea in a piece of writing Crime doesn’t pay Every Cloud has a silver lining

5. Writer’s attitude toward the piece Audience’s feeling from the piece Tone andMood

6. Gold Pat Mora When Sun paints the desert With its gold, I climb the hills, Wind runs round boulders, Ruffles My hair. I sit on my favorite rock, lizards for company, a rabbit, Ears stiff in the shade Of a saguaro. ImageryThe poet’s words create images, or pictures, in the mind of the reader What images do you see when you read this excerpt from page 338 of your textbook?

7. Creating Images Poets also use figures of speech—language that helps make startling connections between dissimilar things. The Sea James Reeves The sea is a hungry dog, Giant and gray. He rolls on the beach all day. With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws What two things are being compared in this excerpt from page 638? [End of Section]

8. Extended MetaphorA metaphor which is developed through several lines or perhaps the entire piece.

9. Creating Sounds A poet is like a musician. A musician tries various patterns of notes to find a pleasing melody. A poet tries various patterns of words to find the right rhythm.

10. Creating Sounds Poets choose their words carefully. They revise them repeatedly until they find the combination that will produce just the right sound— perhaps a harsh sound, perhaps an eerie sound. What words might you combine to create the sound of a galloping horse? [End of Section]

11. Shape and Form A poet is like a sculptor. A poet chisels words to create a poem’s shape. A sculptor is concerned with shape and form.

12. Figure of Speech: Simile (frog to Somebody) Metaphor (admirers to bog) Tone: Fed up with braggarts Imagery: Frog croaking in a bog. Bogs aren’t particularly pretty and the constant croaking is obnoxious. Theme: Keep your accomplishments private and don’t brag. Personification: Admirers are portrayed as a nasty, smelly, slimy bog. Painting with Words

13. Assign one member of your group to read the poem out loud Fill out your chart with your group Place at lease three comments on the wall chart Connections, illuminations, writers’ devices, vocabulary, tone, mood… You Do

14. Painting with Words: The Elements of Poetry The End