The Elements of Poetry

The Elements of Poetry Painting with words By Sharon White

How to read Poetry • Follow these guidelines • Read the poem out loud at least once • Look form sentences , and pay attention to punctuation.

Creating Images

Creating Sound A Poet use sound just as a painter uses color. Like painters, poets uses color to share their special moment to the world.

Deciding of form • Like sculptors poets are concerned with shapes and form. • When they write and revise , poets are chiseling the words to create the shapes on the page which are called. FORMS STANZAS

Line Break • A poet’s purposeful choice of where to end one line and begin the next. • Line breaks can be a way to play with sound and meaning.

Speaker • The “voice” of the poem is not necessarily the poet.

Practice A poem’s rhymes and rhythms help to make it fairly ease to memorize a poem. • Read the poem aloud three or four times. • Look for rhymes, Rhyming words help your memory. • Memorize two lines at a time. Say the lines aloud several times then cover them and try to recite them from memory. • Try to picture the words ot the poem on the page.

Line • A line is a single row of words ,which may or may not be in a complete thought.

The Elements of Poetry