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Creating your Narrative Poem

Creating your Narrative Poem. Journal 7. Sentence 1-. Identify the ritual ( setting and characters ) using enjambment and one hyperbole . EXAMPLE: On Fridays he 'd open a can of Jax Close his eyes, and ask me to write the same letter to my mother

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Creating your Narrative Poem

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  1. Creating your Narrative Poem Journal 7

  2. Sentence 1- • Identify the ritual (setting and characters) using enjambmentand one hyperbole. EXAMPLE: On Fridayshe'd open a can of Jax Close his eyes, and ask me to write the same letter to my mother Who sent postcards of desert flowers Taller than man.

  3. Sentence 2-3 • Reveal the speaker’s attitude/tone towards the ritual. • Reveal the conflict (what the speaker wants vs other characters’ wants) • Use alliteration and enjambment • EXAMPLE: He’d beg her return and promised to never beat her again. I was almost happy She was gone, & sometimes wanted To slip in something bad.

  4. Sentence 4 • Imagery- visual description of main character using modifiers and enjambment • EXAMPLE: His carpenter's apron always bulged With old nails, a claw hammer Looped at his side & extension cords coiled around his feet.

  5. Sentence 5 • Actions of the main character and/or speaker using caesura and enjambment. Words rolled from under the pressure of my ballpoint pen: Love, Baby, Honey, Please.

  6. Sentence 6 • Illustrate the biggest challenge of the ritual through sensory details of the setting. • Use antithesis and enjambment • Develop the relationship • EXAMPLE: We lingered in the quiet brutality Of voltage meters & pipe threaders, Lost between sentences . . . the heartless gleam of a two-pound wedge On the concrete floor a sunset in the doorway of the toolshed.

  7. Sentence 7 • Using enjambment, write a sentence that has a tone that is antithetical (opposite) to the previous sentence. I wondered if she laughed as she held them over a flame.

  8. Sentence 8-9 • Last sentences: use enjambment, antithesis, modifiers with sensory details, and a simile. • Sentence 9 should be the longest sentence of your poem and should begin on the same line where sentence 8 ended. • These sentences are also the climax of your poem. There should be a realization, understanding, or epiphany revealed here. • Readers should understand the purpose and importance of the ritual. EXAMPLE: My father could only sign His name, but he'd look at blueprints & say how many bricks Formed each wall. This man, Who stole roses & hyacinth For his yard, stood there With eyes closed & fists balled, Laboring over a simple word, opened like a fresh wound, almost Redeemed by what he tried to say.

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