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How to write poetry .

How to write poetry. Laugh.

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How to write poetry .

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  1. How to write poetry.

  2. Laugh • Laughing feels so good,Its sets your day right when you’re feeling down.It tastes like strawberries with cake,It smells so great.Some times, when you can't cease the laughter,You feel like you'll explode,But after you're done, you can't help,But smile a 100 acre smile.You squeeze you belly,When you giggle so loud.Laugh out loud and plenty of it,Will keep on going around.The whole world might not understand,Some words that to us are said.But laughing is a commonLanguage that we all understand.So laugh out loud or secretly inside,And optimism will hug your heart and mind.

  3. Can you tell • Who wrote this poem? • How old was an author? • What do you feel upon reading this poem? • What images appear in your mind?

  4. Do you think that you’re a poet too? One famous poet thinks that you are!

  5. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, “Why don’t you say what you mean?” We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. Robert Frost “Education by poetry” Poetry provides the one Here is what he said:

  6. Think about the meaning of the next poem. tell your neighbor about it.

  7. Name Giveaway by Phil George • That teacher gave me a new name … again • She never even had feasts or giveaway! • Still I do not know what “George” means; • and now she calls me: “Phillip.” • TWO SWANS ASCENDING FROM STILL WATERS • Must be a name too hard to remember.

  8. Did you know…. • In the late 1800 and early 1900, the government forced Native American parents to send their children away to boarding schools. At the schools Native American children were required to conform to the language, dress, and religion of white people. Often, the children were forced to use new first and last names.

  9. Poetry in making • So let’s dig into the process

  10. Forms of poetry • What are the forms of: • - Laugh by Olya • - Name Giveaway by Phil George • -The Negro Speaks of Rivers by L. Hughes • (wait… we haven’t SEE the poem yet!)

  11. The Negro Speaks of Rivers   by Langston Hughes

  12. I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

  13. Imagery Shape and rhythm Sound -metaphor -simile -personification -triplet(triolet) -couplet -pantoum -villanelle -alliteration -assonance -consonance Techniques of poetry:

  14. Bingo!

  15. Scared now? • Have no fear- • Ask your peer! • The new poet is right HERE!!!

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